I've noticed that the time required for a given "load ..." order decreases proportionally with the available cargo space.

For example, suppose I have a freighter class with 50kt capacity.
I give a ship of this class an order to load 1 construction factory (which requires 25kt of cargo space).
That order takes an amount of time equal to the full load time shown in the designer window for this class, reduced by relevant bonuses (NAC, commander, spaceport, governor, sector).
When the order is complete, the freighter has 25kt capacity remaining.
I then give the ship an order to load 1 mine (which also requires 25kt of cargo space).
The ship only has half of its total capacity remaining, so this order takes half the amount of time as the previous order.

The question:
Is there a reason why the load time for the first order isn't also reduced by half? Both orders are loading the same amount of cargo.
More generally: when a load order specifies an amount to be loaded, is there a reason that the required time is determined by the cargo space currently available on the ship, rather than the specific cargo size to be loaded?

Steve initially was going to make wrecks tug-gable in C# but he changed his mind as he figured that salvaging wrecks in contested systems is more exciting than just using tugs to move them to safety.

Thank you, Garfunkel.
I can understand the reason.
But I think I'll never salvage anything in a contested system, to avoid the risk to lose even more ships.

Tugs cannot tow the wrecks. Please, which is the rationale behind it?
We could use them to move around the wrecks, and anyway use a salvager to recover the valuable materials.

I think you have to finish building it and only then you can scrap it.

Thank you, Garfunkel.
A bit disappointing, anyway.

I started the construction of some fighters, but stopped it before the first one was finished.
What does it happen to the materials used before the stop? Can I scrap the partially built fighter and have the materials back to the stockpile somehow?

I think they are cycling between holding position and the "picket" order. Which is perhaps a bit of an artifact that could be removed or at least better hidden from the player.

I could so the same for hostile contacts - splitting into controlled and non-controlled systems and making the former non-interrupt. However, that could lead to players accidentally not intervening when one of their ships is in a hostile system. They would have to remove the control flag before entering so they got the interrupts. I imagine that could cause a lot of problems.

I could see it working if it excluded the alien systems where player ships/populations were present and the systems adjacent to those systems  (if the player is able to detect an incoming jump incursion, he should certainly be notified). That being said, this sounds like a very unwieldy setting, and personally, I wouldn't use it for fear of missing something important. I think it would be far more beneficial to identify and eliminate root causes of NPR ships getting stuck to rid the player of inconsequential interrupts in the first place.

Also, since we're vaguely on the topic of buoys, I recall you saying you added a POI for buoys detected by a NPR, but it's not in the changelog. Could you please elaborate on how that would work? Am I correct in assuming that a buoy detected by a fleet operating under "Investigate POI" orders will be targeted immediately, but a buoy detected by an escorted non-combat group will not cause it to approach and will instead require another operational group to come take care of it?

Quote from: Ghostly on December 16, 2024, 08:35:38 AM

An option to hide non-hostile contacts in systems marked as controlled by the contact's race is coming, but those don't cause an interrupt already. It will help with notification clutter reduction though.

I could so the same for hostile contacts - splitting into controlled and non-controlled systems and making the former non-interrupt. However, that could lead to players accidentally not intervening when one of their ships is in a hostile system. They would have to remove the control flag before entering so they got the interrupts. I imagine that could cause a lot of problems.

Maybe a reasonable solution is to have a per-system setting for contact interrupts, separate from the setting of controlling race.
Something like--
Generate Event Interrupts for (select one):
All Contacts
Neutral and Hostile Contacts Only
Hostile Contacts Only