Hi !

It could be nice to have a description for blueprints. Even a short one. It would be useful to give credits to the original design (in my case a browser-based strategy game which has great designs, the dev accept the use of his designs at the only condition of properly saying that it's a design took from his game).

If it's not too short we could even add some advices like what's its exact role(s), some lore, or some troubleshooting.

Thanks for reading !

Seeing as cities are made of detailed models and meshes now, my computer is dying of performance loss, dropping to 1 FPS. This didn't happen with old-style cities.

I do have a terrible computer, but it would be much appreciated if there was an option to remove some details from the buildings.

specs:
four intel i3 core processors
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
8gb of RAM

I googled for Hazeron just to see what results would come up, and I found this:



Basically, because there is no description for the website, Google and other search engines just take the recent galchat messages and use those. I think it'd be smart to add a description for services like Google to use

Additionally, as mentioned by Deantwo, the website galchat parses links posted by people, meaning if somebody were to post malicious things, Google could possibly mark the website as a "Dangerous Site". I don't think this would help with traffic for the game so should probably also be looked at

Buildings Going Neutral
Buildings were changing to empire 0, after being built.

Fixed a bug when updating city jurisdictions. Buildings that were not in any city jurisdiction at all were being set to empire 0.

Those buildings are now set to the empire who claims the world. If there is no claim then the current empire who owns the building remains unchanged.

Building Chain of Command
I thought everyone had permission to change empire 0 buildings.

On unclaimed worlds, empire 0 buildings, not in the jurisdiction of cities, are now in the command of everyone.

On claimed worlds, you must be a member of the claiming empire to be in command of a building.

Morale
Morale effects are not fully enabled.

Does anyone need more time to make adjustments before morale effects are fully enabled?

Power Plant Bug
Second City on Same Planet does not associate Power

Fixed.

Can't Unjam Doors
Doors on new style ships can be blown open but you can't unjam them.

Fixed.

haxus please remake hazeron and make a way better game out of it.

Right now the only ships that can spawn in an encounter are pirate ships. Haxus talked about adding trader ship encounters in systems with brokers at some point. But doing the talk in the sensor sharing thread I was wondering if maybe empire defense fleet encounters shouldn't also be a thing.

You setup a ship as part of the empire's defense fleet, in a military hangar or something. Then when an ADIZ incursion is reported by a city the defense fleet ships will calculate the distance to the location and just teleport over there when the calculated travel time passes. Spawning similar to a pirate ship with an attempt to drive the invader away.

It could simply be a military hangar building where you select a spacecraft blueprint and it builds one of ships but keeps it hidden.

There are issues with how this would be limited. I mean people would just build millions of those military hangars.
First possible idea is to just use something similar to pirate encounters, a ship can't trigger more than one encounter in a system within a time span. So an empire might have a lot of military hangars all over their empire, but they won't spawn a million defense ship every second.

Not only an interesting defense method, but also would make empires feel a little more alive.

If your weapon emitter is at the front of the ship, and you face the enemy, everything looks fine. If he ducks behind you, your shot comes out of some weird point on the back of your ship. A bit immersion-breaking.

Shields already divide the ship's orientation into "facings". Suggestion: define up to 6 emitter points for a weapon, based on target facings. The Enterprise, from Star Trek, has multiple phaser banks on the saucer. If the Klingons are behind you, the weapon emits from a phaser bank behind the bridge. If they're to the left, it comes from the left bank. The same weapon can fire in any direction, so you lose no effectiveness compared to the present. No more terrifying laser beams cutting straight through your own captain's cabin.

Ultimately, this could work with custom firing arcs, but the 6 pre-existing facings seem like an easy start.

Turrets:

I looked at the Macross on the gallery. So many turrets. Would be nice if multiple aesthetic turrets could turn to face your aim point and fire multiple shots, while being part of the same system!

Hit Points
There was some consensus that the hit points change should affect existing spacecraft and buildings.

Upon server restart, existing buildings and spacecraft will be adjusted. If they have system damage that exceeds their new maximum hit points, the damage is removed, completely repairing that system.

18 Galaxies
Conflict zone empire standings shows Weltreich has cities in 18 galaxies. There are only 17 galaxies in the conflict zone.

Fixed an error when tallying cities on gas giants.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that a ship will only attack an enemy which it can itself "see". 

If so, this does not seem lifelike. An enemy can enter your large trinary system and be detected by a city, but if your ships are patrolling at the other edge of the system, they won't go and help until their own sensors pick it up. If your enemy is in another system, even if they're wreaking havoc and it's only next door, that fleet won't do anything at all.

Should your empire share sensors? You would set a ship policy: "respond to threats within X radius". If an enemy is picked up by any means within X parsecs, the ships will try to intercept according to their officer's posture. This would increase the effectiveness of patrols and NPC defenders drastically, I believe, as well as suiting common sense.

(If we really wanted to go overboard, we could set weighting factors for combined hp of enemy contacts vs distance from current position. If a fleet of 90 billion hp is detected all the way across your empire, your ships will try to help. If it's only 2000 hp they won't bother. Or, conversely, a small ship might avoid contacts bigger than itself.)

Shields Disrupted
Shields can be difficult to breach with transporters when they get shot down, then come right back up again. An opportunity should be created to beam aboard.

http://hazeron.com/gallery/DisruptedShield.png

When shields are reduced to zero by damage, they become disrupted for 20 seconds. This is per side on spacecraft.

• The visible appearance of the shield bubble changes. On spacecraft, the visible appearance of the disrupted side changes.
  
• Disrupted shields do not block moving objects or weapons fire.
  
• Disrupted shields continue to charge as usual.
  
• Disrupted shields do not block transporters. On spacecraft, transporters are not blocked if any side is disrupted.
  

• A city or base with heavily damaged buildings will incur a -1 morale penalty.
  
• A city or base with burning buildings will incur a -1 morale penalty.
  
• Buildings that are heavily damaged or burning do not run any manufacturing processes.