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Drop-dead July 14th.  We have properly addicting weeds, that's good enough.

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Socrates' Daimon should cross-link items within the documentation pages where reasonable.

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Socrates' Daimon should give us a withdrawal syndrome summary page.

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Socrates' Daimon should do both of the above.

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Total Members Voted: 0

Voting closed: March 29, 2020, 08:29:40 pm

[zaimoni]

0.2.3 release cut.  This release is deemed Unstable, due to a residual NPC ai no-op loop.

• The Linux build has been revived, thanks to GitHub handle hirdrac.  A number of crash fixes have also gone in.
• The HTML automatic documentation pages have been moved to the html subdirectory from the data subdirectory.
• You will no longer be notified about disruptive centrifuge spins that do not actually happen.
• Diseases work, again (presumably a regression induced during the pre-0.2.0 mass restructuring)
• Several misalignments between description and game effects have been fixed.
• Socrates' Daimon now maintains a page about addictions -- that names which items sate them.

Full user-visible changes at https://github.com/zaimoni/Cataclysm/projects/7 .

[scriver]

ai no-op loop.

Did you implement skateboarding? Wow! 

[feelotraveller]

The Linux build has been revived, thanks to GitHub handle hirdrac.  A number of crash fixes have also gone in.[/li][/list]

Woohoo!  Compiled fine for me on Archlinux.

Unlikely that I'll get around to properly playing for some time (if ever  ) but confirmed it works as far as creating a character, stepping on a bear trap, triggering a crossbow trap and finding a pile of stuff on the ground.

[zaimoni]

Making those piles of stuff appear in more logical locations is a noticeably heavy lift...too many pre-requisites to actually do anything about it quickly.

[George_Chickens]

It looks like NPC errors automatically switch debug messages back on.

[zaimoni]

The whole notion of debug messages is up for a rethinking; the current implementation isn't "ideal" even for development on multiple grounds.

[zaimoni]

We're almost a month into the declared release window for 0.2.4 .  The main intended changes for this release are "invisible"; they were requested by the devteam.

• Error logfile, to make bug reports more informative.  This is technically landed; the remaining conversion targets require invasive rewrites to do properly.  Debug messages that do not have a UI role, are intended to just be logged.  The existence of the error log will be very obvious, but hopefully will not disrupt gameplay too much.
• Resizable screen (minimum dimensions 80x25).  This is not landed in trunk yet.  The systems analysis for this feature is landed, and about eight-ninths of the change targets that would break on introducing this have been fixed.

A couple of bugfixes in trunk, were radical.  I had to reclassify 0.2.3 as Przybylski's Star (i.e., reasonably expected to be unplayable).

[EuchreJack]

Yay to Resizable screens!

[zaimoni]

It is two weeks to end of declared release window.  Pareto's Law (80% of the effort is 20% of the work) has become very evident; it's currently possible I will have to choose between a schedule miss, and the resizable screen feature.  The three remaining screens that would break on introducing resizable screens are:

• player info (accessed by @ key): width of subpanels, and height of lower row of subpanels, are not fully responsive.  Have way forward, it's just very time (conscious experience) expensive.
• Vehicle interaction screen: some judgment calls needed (tradeoffs between inline display scope and info subpanel to its right)
• Defense subgame: predicted to be formal transform to fix.

[EuchreJack]

Sounds like a decision for next week. 

Good luck, whatever direction you take is great, just glad to see that development is continuing.

[zaimoni]

0.2.4 release cut.  This release is deemed Unstable for the same rationale as 0.2.3; no relevant commits for that ai no-op loop landed.

The two major changes are an (incomplete) error logfile, and larger usable screen size.

Other user-visible changes

• Exploder turrets had not been dropping robotic items on demise.
• Missed shots had not been going away from the shooter.  This is likely something I had introduced.
• NPCs had not been triggering Toad style benefits on pause.
• Dimensional fatigue, and technological teleporter pads, did not treat monsters the same.

Full user-visible changes at https://github.com/zaimoni/Cataclysm/projects/8 .

[EuchreJack]

Congrats on the release!

[zaimoni]

Infrastructure checkpoint: vehicle internal reference coordinates have been entirely shifted over to global positioning coordinates.  (This is part of a medium-range plan to unblock long-range A* pathfinding, lunar eclipses, etc.  I do not expect to have the CPU/RAM for long-range A* pathfinding, but I want it to be a resource failure rather than a data design failure.)

[n9103]

One solution that the Factorio devs used was chunking the world and A* those to find what chunks should be examined, then A* limited to those chunks.
Here's the relevant blog where they go into pretty good detail about it.

[zaimoni]

Factorio devlog: thanks.  I'll have to re-review this more carefully once the submap vs. reality bubble issues are ironed out (pretty sure submaps are not the largest chunking unit of interest here).