Month: October 2013

We just updated redshirt with a galactic-ton of updates and improvements. Just re-download to get the new version, if you have already grabbed the pre-ordered beta from here.

Here is the changelist:

Redshirt Beta v0.7

• Now reduced to 160 days till the end of the game.
• NPCs now have a variable for how often they check Spacebook. This defines responsiveness to status updates/wall posts/private messages.
• NPCs will now check their Spacebook messages and sent friend requests more often!
• Spacebook flirting consequences fixed!
• How NPCs are feeling is now made more clear, especially after events/work/end of day.
• Higher likelihood of receiving a Spacebook message from NPCs.
• NPCs are no longer so hesitant about how many times they post about one person in a given day.
• Romantic partners feel neglected if you don’t go on specifically romantic dates with them — they might message to let you know!
• Now possible to die from too many sickbay visits close together.
• NPCs get upset about one-way messaging the player.
• Fixed end-game screen.
• Station settings page on character creation — ability to define personality breakdown of NPCs (now have 5 fixed personality attributes in addition to previous 6 variable ones.) — personality attributes reflected on profile page.
• Ability to define how often away missions happen, and how overzealous the holodoctor is in monitoring your health. :)
• New NPC personality attribute: Bigotry affects:
• — applying for jobs if you’re the wrong species.
• — all relationship adjustments are reduced by 75%.
• — liking a bigoted status means relationship minuses with friends of targeted species and other non-bigoted friends.
• — whether they accept your friend request.
• — how they feel about going to events with people of a different species, etc.
• New NPC personality attribute: Chattiness affects:
• — How likely they are to post statuses & messages.
• New NPC personality attribute: Vanity affects:
• — Whether or not NPCs feel offended that they weren’t invited out (only vain NPCs get upset now, no-one else.)
• New NPC personality attribute: Quirkiness affects:
• — How likely NPC is to do an event which they’re not usually interested in.
• New NPC personality attribute: Fickleness affects:
• — Makes for a more extreme personality — adds modifiers to everything!
• — More likely to fall in love.
• NPCs have one interest which they are very unlikely to ever change.
• NPCs are now more likely to fall in love.
• Being more effective at work doesn’t mean you get modifier to negative attributes!
• SHOP & Inventory:
• — Fixed free repairs bug! Repairing items now actually costs money
• — Inventory arranged alphabetically.
• — Added ‘repair all’ button to inventory
• — FIXED BUG: Repairing item in SHOP doesn’t send you to top of SHOP.
• — Ability to recycle items for 10% of their value if used up, or for however much time is left before it expires.
• NPC rejecting an event invitation no longer gives two seperate hits to relationship.
• Dead NPCs no longer invited to events!
• Hurting someone you’re friends with (insults, romantic infidelity etc) now adjusts relationship proportional to how strong the relationship used to be.
• Can now buy extra actions at any time of day.
• Raised total rank cap to 14 (7 career, 7 charisma)
• Fixed bug: new characters would sometimes accidentally share profiles with other characters.
• Ambassadors are now rank 15.
• Filled out all remaining content for random work shift occurrences.
• Aspiration window now shows the rewards for completing the aspiration.
• All Spacebook events are now listed in order of Action Points
• Fixed ‘yellow alert bug’
• Properly calculating interrelationships between invitees at events
• Ability to navigate through older Spacebook entries (link at bottom) — can also use left and right arrows
• ‘Get in a relationship with’ aspiration no longer gets triggered if you’re in a relationship with someone with a shuttle ticket
• Fixed NPCs posting to someone’s profile/wall/timeline
• Fixed bugs with switching recipient of a message while on message compose page.
• Buying SHOP items now takes up 1 action point.
• Visible SHOP Items and events are now limited by your current rank.
• Linked skill/interest/etc requirements from career tree window.
• Spacebook events/work outcomes text now skippable.
• Being in a supervisor position adjusts relationship with the coworkers supervised.
• Playing as Asrion means extra unwanted attention from various characters.
• Being tagged in Spacebook status of any kind now properly adjusts relationship.
• First instance of ‘What is this thing called love?’ aspiration to be in a relationship with already-friended NPC.