Backlog Bash - Development Log #551

In this week's devlog Michi tackles backlog issues and presents a new quality of life improvement.

Michi (molp)

The release notes topic for the upcoming Orchestration release is available on the forums.

This week I spent most of the time going through the backlog of our issue tracker and implemented/fixed issues that have been lurking there for a while. These will all be released with the Orchestration release.

First up is the BBC command: The storage buildings have moved into their own tab, essentially uncluttering the infrastructure tab.

The BS and CO commands now use the same sort order for bases.

Sometimes, especially when the page is zoomed, white lines appear at some tiles. I found out that this is due to the original scroll-bar shining through, due to a rounding error. We now hide the original scroll-bars with CSS.

Sometimes there was a mismatch between the available permits being shown in the HQ and BS commands. Found the cause and fixed it.

Contacting a player via COMU after they had been renamed resulted in an "Error #1013" message. That's fixed, and the channel now works with the new name.

I disabled the dividend payout mechanism. As corporations do not receive production fees anymore, this became obsolete.

I also worked on a nice little quality of life improvement: Sometimes it is necessary to throw a one-off production order into an otherwise automated production line. By default, the order gets appended to the end of the queue. Moving it to the top of the queue required a lot of annoying "move up" clicks. So I removed the up/down buttons entirely and replaced them with a drag handle:

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Happy trading!