RESOLVED:Problem with colony pods

[Lithari]

Hiya,

since the latest patch that just went live, which added the territory map thing, it seems to have stopped the colony ships from well, colonizing, I tried to colonize mars and it wouldn't work, so I went to a new system and tried another planet, a desert world, didn't work either.

It happened from the start, so get yourself a colony ship and see for yourself.

[deadgin]

i am having the same problem every time I try to colonize mars etc nothing happens

[Lithari]

Something in the recent patch must have broke the most vital feature....kinda funny if you think about it.

[Zaimat]

Apologies, indeed it broke colonizing. We have reverted the live version to previous until we correct this. Please restart steam to revert back.

[Zaimat]

The bug has been fixed and a new version is now live.

Our sincerest apologies. The bug somehow slipped through (12 hours ago) in the latest update, we will be more vigilant going forward to avoid such issues. Thank you for your understanding.

[Lithari]

The bug has been fixed and a new version is now live.

Our sincerest apologies. The bug somehow slipped through (12 hours ago) in the latest update, we will be more vigilant going forward to avoid such issues. Thank you for your understanding.

I can understand bugs slipping through, but not sure how a vital feature getting broke slips through....but I am not a developer, so I don't understand the difficulty and challenge of it all.

[Zaimat]

Sometimes the smallest changes can have an undesired effect especially with core game systems. This change happened to not play nice with the ship AI so it was ignoring the colonization order.

With a large code base these things are inevitable at times. What we should have done is delay the update from going live too quickly so we could test for at least a few days.

Going forward we will be setting up a test branch that you can access from Steam at will, it will always have the most recent changes. While the default version on steam will always be one version behind (older but usually more tested).

[Lithari]

cool.

[Malifor]

I just downloaded and installed Horizon today from Steam. I started the tutorial and I am having issues with building a colony on Mars. I believe I have done exactly as the tutorial instructed. I am orbiting Mars with my Colonizer ship. However, the "Colonize" command is not available and right next to that option it says "Colonizer pods required".

any ideas?

Thanks Kevin.

EDIT ** I must have been doing something wrong in the building of the Colonizer. After 3 attempts I now have a ship capable of colonizing... good for now, thank you.