1.1.8.1 Public Beta Update Available

[MaximKI]

Is this forum the wrong place to post bugs? Should I better post at steam or where? Or is my english so bad that you don't understand me? Then pls tell me and I will try to write better english.

This would be fixed in 3 mins:
"At desgins at role there is also the size like small, medium and large pls delete this size at role because of sorting roles. It's the same at new design select ship hull, for example at freighters."
Role has nothing to do with size.

It's a very low hanging fruit.

Thanks for the report. We do our best to look through all reports on this forum, as well as Steam forums, and Discord, so all feedback is appreciated and we do consider it for future improvements.

Please understand that we are a small dev team and we have to prioritize resources and our efforts on issues that we consider to be most pressing. At the moment, we haven't seen many other posts noting this as an issue, but we know there's been feedback on the ship design area and ship roles sections of the game and we are considering improvements to this area for future updates.

[fruitgnome]

Thx 4 reply. For this is a dev not needed it's text replacement where type = role.
And why should post consumers a problem if it is already reported.
Think on low hanging fruits.

[MaximKI]

Hey everyone, a new public beta is now out! See OP for details.

[fruitgnome]

Thx 4 reply. For this is a dev not needed it's text replacement where type = role.
And why should post consumers a problem if it is already reported.
Think on low hanging fruits.

I tested it in 1.1.8.1, the problem have only freighters and spaceports.

[Erik Rutins]

Thx 4 reply. For this is a dev not needed it's text replacement where type = role.
And why should post consumers a problem if it is already reported.
Think on low hanging fruits.

I tested it in 1.1.8.1, the problem have only freighters and spaceports.

FYI this would not be a low hanging fruit or a quick or easy change for us. We appreciate the feedback but it can be very hard to judge development cost from outside the dev team.

[fruitgnome]

Not an easy change?
Here is what has to be changed:
Distant Worlds 2\data\GameText.txt start at row 19
change there the right column from ;Small Freighter to ;Freighter
So you have:
Small Freighter ;Freighter
and so on till row 32

Consumers feel free to change it by yourself.

Sort order by role should be role -> hull size or max size not role -> name.

[Erik Rutins]

That changes the name, but that is not all that would need to change.

[fruitgnome]

Not an easy change?
Here is what has to be changed:
Distant Worlds 2\data\GameText.txt start at row 19 (edit: now row 20)
change there the right column from ;Small Freighter to ;Freighter
So you have:
Small Freighter ;Freighter
and so on till row 32

Consumers feel free to change it by yourself.

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Beta 1.2.6.9. Not fixed yet. It changes the role not the name. I changed it again by myself (1 minute work) - needs restart of game to work.

[fruitgnome]

The problem by this might be that the role is also used in maintenance but there it could be changed better to name or hull perhaps. If it is well coded like I think by Elliot Gibbs it would be another 1 minute work.

[fruitgnome]

Not fixed in 1.2.7.1. I really think that would be two minutes of work. And every beta resets my own changes even I did not compared files to issues in steam. - I know this can't be fixed by now as you change GameText.txt on every update - but it is although annoying to fix it again and again by myself. But stop it could be changed - make GameText.txt modable. Then I can make from the gizureans almost the bugs from starship troopers.