PTE Build 76412-pte now live (updated with new build 12/16/14)

If it processes auto-economy once per sim-tick, then it would allow for one-tick's usage. If it's only once a sim-second (10 ticks), then allow for that much.

I could see a case for leaving a small storage buffer in case of unexpected variance, rather than targeting 0. Especially with energy to keep radar on.

there is a bug with the unit cannon if u change the unit being built while its building to fill the next pod
it cuts frames by half and lags the game alot still testing to see if this was a 1 time bug
also some ui mods shade the unit cannon icon slot making it impossible to build without disableing them trying to figure out which one tho.

Any mod which adds units or changes what units build what will prevent you from being able to build the Unit Cannon at all unless they have been updated to work for the PTE. This is due to the need to currently shadow the file that defines the build menus.

@jables - the need to shadow build.js & unit_list.json severely hampers the creation/usefulness of unit mods, as only one such mod can be active at a time. Is there any current plan to allow these files/their functionality to be hooked into instead of needing to be shadowed?

What's the point of even having simulated projectiles if you're going to nullify it by removing reaction time?

I've not looking into this a lot, but do we actually need to shadow build.js? For my first ever mod that adds a new unit I did as I was told to do so by people who are used to adding new units, but looking at it myself now I think that may be because somebody without UI modding experience came up the idea and it was just copied from mod to mod. I don't think you actually need to shadow build.js
It's a js file used in the client. It should be possible to modify the buildbar UI that uses build.js instead of directly modifing build.js. In fact from a quick look it seems to be quite simple:
build.js defines an observable that is then used in live_game_build_bar.js.
The global name of it is model.buildHotkeyModel() within the scene. So the observable with that name within live_game_build_bar.js very likely can be modified from a UI mod without shadowing anything.
Though a better solution would be if the server side would tell the UI what units it wants to have in the buildbar. There is no reason why the UI should have a redundant copy of "what factory builds what", as it has right now.

The real issue is unit_list.json
As that file is used server side we cannot do anything about it, as there is no hooking system on the server at all.

Great, thanks!

Confusing because you need more details to repro?

There's quite a few, like seeing if there's something in the way that the projectile will hit, or to make it look cooler. On the topic of looking cool, if the tank projectiles are sped up much more, I can see shells in individual frames teleporting closer to the enemy. Maybe it's my monitor "only" being 60Hz, or maybe the projectiles are only visually being updated at 30Hz? *shrug*, just an extra negative effect that speeding up projectiles too much could have.

OP updated with new build information. 76011-pte now up.

Whee, new ranked maps!

Keep it comming gentleman!! Awesome stuff and fast aswell

I will be sad if you really get rid of Forge from the map rotation. I know it's small but that map is really fun.

We are not removing ranked maps in live.. just in PTE so we can focus play on the maps we want feedback on.

New Unit Cannon model, with beginnings of building animation.

Does frigate = Narwhal, and Destroyer = Orca?

It's... beautiful

It looks so...alien.

YES.

I Don't Like Forge.

It's just so repetitive.

Forge actually seems to have a lot of options for sneaky expansion and maneuvering considering how small the map is. The only problem I have with it is that you really need to play tetris with your base because there is so little room to build. Even that can have some very interesting gameplay consequences though as it forces the base to grow into awkward and hard to defend shapes.