Show me the Showstoppers

[zebramatt]

The intended behaviour, as I understand it is that yes, holding both shift and the left mouse button will stream turrets out from your cursor; but when you stop holding the left mouse button the stream should also stop, obviously.

What the Unity build is doing at the moment is placing the turrets with just the shift key held, which is nutso!

I can't attest to whether SlimDX did that either, though I've no reason to doubt Keith!

[Mánagarmr]

CTRL places groups of five. Shift simply keeps build mode up to place more turrets instead of cancelling build after placement.

[keith.lamothe]

Oh, it's doing it just by holding shift?  I think that's the one I fixed earlier.  I'll check that right quick.

[keith.lamothe]

Ok, in my tests it won't do it on just shift.  Anyone else seeing that in 3.718?

[keith.lamothe]

What the Unity build is doing at the moment is placing the turrets with just the shift key held, which is nutso!

Ah, ok, I found it; you have to left click to start the deluge, but after that you can let go of the left mouse button and it will keep throwing the units out there.  Will fix

[keith.lamothe]

Ok, the problem was being caused by an InsufficientlyFloggedProgrammerException, basically I thought it would be a bright idea to suppress MouseUp and MouseMove (not just MouseDown) when the cursor was inside a GUI window.  Chris told me (twice) that this was a bad idea for various reasons and I assumed he have reverted it out (which he had the first time).  Now that I've pulled that out, things seem to be working much better

[Mánagarmr]

Ok, the problem was being caused by an InsufficientlyFloggedProgrammerException, basically I thought it would be a bright idea to suppress MouseUp and MouseMove (not just MouseDown) when the cursor was inside a GUI window.  Chris told me (twice) that this was a bad idea for various reasons and I assumed he have reverted it out (which he had the first time).  Now that I've pulled that out, things seem to be working much better

Good thing you managed to nail it! It was really annoying

[RCIX]

Issue 741 seems pretty big to me...

[Giegue]

thats never happened to me. although when I zoom in on something, it takes awhile for the graphic to load. so it will just show a description for an empty space.

[x4000]

Issue 741 seems pretty big to me...

I'm pretty sure that's just planets where you have any ships under attack blinking too slowly.  It's on my list to fix shortly.

thats never happened to me. although when I zoom in on something, it takes awhile for the graphic to load. so it will just show a description for an empty space.

That's the expected behavior -- the SlimDX version halted until the graphic would load, which led to heavy lag and pausing when new images were encountered.  But the Unity version streams them in the background, which leads to the blankness for a second but doesn't cause lag.  It's kind of a tradeoff, but this seemed preferable to me.  Depending on the speed of your disk, and how many images need to load all at once, it might happen faster or slower.

[zebramatt]

Also, I've gotten used to it by now but my initial thought on seeing the text buttons on the bottom left of the Planet screen - MAP, STATS & CTRLS - was that they must be unfinished place holders, since they don't fit the button graphics on which they sit very well at all.

If that's not the case, then they almost certainly need a little tweaking before launch.

If it is the case, of course, and you intend to spruce them up a bit anyway, then you can ignore me!

[RCIX]

Issue 741 seems pretty big to me...

I'm pretty sure that's just planets where you have any ships under attack blinking too slowly.  It's on my list to fix shortly.

But it was blinking on planets that i had only sent a scout on, well after i had scouted. Also, pretty much all of the explored planets were doing it.

[zebramatt]

Oh and someone mentioned the Galaxy View planetary text, right? I have a right trouble of a time seeing the numbers for My Ships (Q) - they're obscured by planet names and icons.

[zebramatt]

Also also also also (I've no idea how many alleged "showstoppers" I'm up to now):

Would I be correct in saying MRSs and engineers don't show their repair lines in far zoom?

[x4000]

Also also also also (I've no idea how many alleged "showstoppers" I'm up to now):

Would I be correct in saying MRSs and engineers don't show their repair lines in far zoom?

When you zoom out very far, yes.  This is the intended behavior for the moment.