znichola / colonialcharter

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colonialcharter's Issues

Figure out system for accurate colonist state changes

Currently colonists have a chance of death/injury then the remainder for normal, these don't always fire at the same time, so you can have a colonist disappear.

results =
  {
    {
      name = "injured-colonist",
      probability = 0.08,
      amount = 1
    },
    {
      name = "tired-colonist",
      probability = 0.92,
      amount = 1
    },
    {
      name = "tired-colonist",
      amount = 2
    },
    {
      name = "space-science-pack",
      amount = 5
    }
  },

Game crash on colonial charter research finish

Hi,

My game crashes when the research colonial charter finishes with this error:

Error while running event ColonialCharter::on_research_finished (ID 18)
Unknown interface: silo_script
stack traceback:
ColonialCharter/control.lua:25: in function <ColonialCharter/control.lua:23>

My mod list:
`{
"mods": [
{
"name": "base",

  "name": "ColonialCharter",

  "name": "DeadlockLoaders",

  "name": "expanded-rocket-payloads",

  "name": "Explosive Excavation",

  "name": "far-reach",

  "name": "Fill4Me",

  "name": "Flow Control",

  "name": "FNEI",

  "name": "helmod",

  "name": "Larger stack Size",

  "name": "LogisticTrainNetwork",

  "name": "miniloader",

  "name": "Oil Patches Organizer",

  "name": "playtime",

  "name": "qol_research",

  "name": "railloader",

  "name": "SpaceMod",

  "name": "Squeak Through",

  "name": "upgrade-planner",

  "name": "WaiTex_Full",

  "name": "Warehousing",

`

Restructuring the tech tree and expanding the mod.

From some of the feedback I got on the reddit post, I think it would be a good idea to rearrange the colonist's tech-tree to get them much sooner than the endgame. This would also mean messing with the material costs.

First of all is this a good idea? If so where would make sense to slot them in?

As far a making it possible, I have added a coms dish as well as a landing pad, the idea would be to use the coms dish to produce arrival data and then feed that into the landing site to get a shipment of colonists. But this also works if we keep the colonists where they are in the tech tree.

Now what kind of buildings should we add? I have added a hydroponics building to produce food and some science. I found a pretty good work-flow so, it's not too time intensive to generate graphics. Basically using the models on the 3D warehouse, they have a very permissive licence.

Just while browsing the models I found some really nice looking optical observatories, so I thought it would be cool to add one as a late game science building, probably should redo housing/workshop at some point as well.

I put a rough outline in the todo list

I'll probably leave this for a few days for comments then start working on adding it in, starting with the techs that's aren't in in yet.

legal docs not accepted as input science labs

Can't research to the next lvl, not sure if its a mod or the game, I dont see any way to use legal docs, none of my research building can accept them for process. like you mod so far. let me know what I'm doing wrong. thanks.

From the mod portal.

Seems like legal docs aren't accepted as input to labs. Will try reproduce.

Reversing the coms dish animation

Here's the corresponding post on the forums asking for help.

Launching game after running deployment script

@Tarrke is it possible to add in an option to launch the game after running the deployment script, as I was messing with the graphics it takes a lot of restarts to get the shadows lined up, it would make it much easier if the game auto launched after deploying.

Add a GUI to track the colonist population

As stated in the project tab, there should be a GUI to display the current number of colonists in the colony by type.

Should we add child/adolesent colonists?

This should allow for much easier tracking of colonist birth rates as they would appear in the production tabs and would look nice in the gui.

This would also come with a recipe to educate them turning them into regular colonist. Can also add a new tech to make that more varied/interesting.