Galaxy Quest Lite

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Taycarts, I've actually just tried what you suggested a few times in different browsers but each time the 'Resume Game' button is greyed out as it should be so this is a bit odd. In any case I think there is something further I can do in an update which will hopdefully act as a fail safe. There are other updates I'm planning so rather than doing them one by one I will work on them all now and make an update hopefully in a few days. I'll put a post in the game news section to let you and everyone else know whats coming up.

Here's an interesting bug for you..

1) Load GQL.
2) Click "Start" button.
3) Click "Resume" button. ( You see all planets in full colour. )
4) Click "Back" button. ( You are now on Luthonia with 99,999,999 of every resource. )
Only one problem, you can't do anything. You can only click the "Ship" and "Transfer" buttons. Nothing else works not even the Menu button.
You are forced to reload the game.
Thought you might like to know.
Reguards, Tac :)

That explains a lot. Thank you for responding so thoroughly. The greyed-out menu thing must have been left over after the unaffordable building had been hidden. Of course I checked all the costs while trying to understand why I couldn't build the gold mine. This was a new colony, so no ships were being built yet. We'll have to assume it was due to low population, because I expected the barracks to produce daily like your other buildings, but probably with a cap. The one-off population boost seems unusual to me, but it's up to you of course. So with that in mind, I suggest put trends next to each resource (i.e. "Gold 1234 +2/day") and add something in the instructions to highlight how the barracks work differently. Typing a number is not so bad, but it would be better to have shortcuts like a simple button to "send all", or some fraction. SolarMax did the best example I can think of. Thank you for hearing feedback! This is gonna be great!

As for the barracks giving a one off population boost and not daily, this was done deliberately as I wanted there to be some kind of limitation for the player to think about. There is already a generous amount of game space for the player to place a large number of buildings on and I didn't want the player to be able to have the ability to build just say 1 barracks and for this to give all the population ever needed, leaving the rest of the space for the other buildings. I wanted the player to think a bit more strategically about what types of buildings and how many to build on each planet. This is especially the case when progressing through the game and thinking between planets. Cheers!