Oh, this is a wonderful game. It has just crashed (but after like 12 hours of constant playing, with short breaks during the refinery processing), but this has just given me the opportunity to write this small note. :)
I know that it requires a true friend to show you your deficiencies, so, with full love and with gratitude for all the _other_ things, which work, I beg you - dear author - to consider fixing the following:
- scrolled lists shall not "bounce" when scrolled fully up or down. When the list (e.g. of the products in the market) reaches top, and I keep scrolling the mouse wheel up, the list "jumps" and then bounces back down. I find it somehow very unpleasant, distracting, and delaying the moment when I notice that I have already scrolled it all the way. I would prefer that the list just stops moving. This "bouncing" may be OK in a mobile app, where you move it with your finger, but on desktop, I just do not like it. Also, if the list scrolls, then why is it also divided into pages? (especially at the beginning I was quite often forgetting that there were more pages). How about just making the lists either divided into pages, OR scrollable? (But that's not so important - please, do not let it stop you from removing the bouncing ;)
- clicks on icons, buttons, etc. sometimes "propagate" through the dialog. For example, I click on that tiny arrow, at the bottom of the screen, when flying, - the "activate all modules" (mining lasers) - and quite often I also (in addition to activating the modules) cause the object below (usually an asteroid), to be added as a target to scan. This is not critical, but annoying, because when I then click on the target list to remove that one, I quite often end up adding The Star to the list of targets. And then I have to remove it, and then... :/
I know that this game is "in development", and I am sure you have a long list of bugs and fixes, so I won't bother you listing all the small ones right now. The game is already a great fun, and bad bugs make good stories, they say.
For example, I think I saw today in the changelog something like "added grace period for life support on a new campaign".
Now I have the right to tell, one day, my grandchildren:
- "You, youngsters, you have it easy. When I was starting, they sent me out, to mine these asteroids, and they forgot to tell me that my ship had no life support active. Oh boy, that was the longest minute of my life."
So, one more coffee, and let's get back to searching for the best mining carrier. (I got the money, I just want something better than these basic class-1 ships. Bleh.. In the meantime I may gather enough money for a dreadnought, and then my search will start anew)
Peace be with you! [insert a spock-hand emoji here]
