Galactic Colonies

So I assume your not experiencing the issues with research and timers on your end? I assume no research is supposed to take several thousand hours at least according to VoiceOver and also for me the first research project in the list without VoiceOver showed as taking about 24 hours, but in the previous beta it was only going to take 15 minutes. so I don't know if the lengths of time for research are even accurate, as VoiceOver reports different information to the non VoiceOver accessibility mode, and given that this version now shows different times to the previous version. If it would help to look at my save I can of course let you have my player ID.

Hi Michelle, regarding research both VoiceOver and accessibility now seem to be showing the same information for some reason though they have shown different sometimes. but what I have noticed is that if i'm just hhighlighting the icon that says research it will show something like 8 hours, but when I actually go into the list of tasks and highlight the active project within the research window then i'm shown it as taking several thousand hours.
the timer issue doesn't affect only research it affects all timers in the game, basically your colonies are paused if your not in the game you earn no money nothing changes till you return to the game. so the research issues is a symptom of bigger problems with timers. Also regarding the robotic centre there is another issue with it where the select product option doesn't read with either VoiceOver or accessibility when flicking around, when I have got into the product select window its more by luck than intention, and information in the window reads differently compared to other buildings.

for those talking about wanting to shut down buildings you can do if you select the option tha tsays status and then number of workers, this is an option where you can change your worker assignment or shut down the building entirely. I know its not immediately obvious as this control isn't identified as a button. layout accessibility is the biggest problem not being able to accurately site buildings where we want, for example I tried to put up a warehouse near my gas collector to make batteries and it looks like the warehouse is spacially not near to the collector to let me connect to it. i'm wishing I could reallocate skill points to extend connection range. I don't get why flicking doesn't move you to the next nearest space to a building, so the space seems to be near the collector as its one flick to take me to it but if I can't connect to it, it looks like the reality isn't what VoiceOver is reporting.

I confirm this issue about watching energy sell ads, same as above. it works the first time after you install the game but not after that.

hmm well wonder if it could be an issue with the type of phone, i'm running on an 11 pro max 512 mb.

I have found another timer bug, this is that in the character menu there is something called claim reward, which correct me if I am wrong but allows you to claim different rewards after a certain number of days have elapsed? anyway for me at least this day counter is always on day 0 and never increases, your timer code seems to be really buggy but i'm still enjoying the game.

Hi, I have found a reliable way to make the sounds cut off permanently for the duration of a game session unless I restart the app, by restart I mean actually quitting it from the app switcher and relaunching it.
so the method I found that achieves this, is to be listening to an audio stream from another app such as bbc sounds, if i'm doing this and just playing the game sounds work completely as expected. But if i'm listening to a stream from bbc sounds, playing the game then I decide to activate a boost when I do this playing the boost advert interrupts the sound from the other streaming app such as bbc sounds, the advert finishes. at this point the stream that was paused is resumed but from this moment on in game sounds from galactic colonies completely stop working unless I force quit and restart the app.

Hi, the update is out, but bad news is it doesn't seem to have resolved the timer issues for me.
as a test I set the boosts running to give me cash every minute, then I put my phone on the home screen and locked it and went away to do something else. When I came back my cash amount hadn't increased at all from where it was when I locked my phone.
also, research still seems completely messed up, as said before outside of the research window i'm told things like it has 9 hours to run for the first project in the list, but if I actually tap on the research option and highlight where VoiceOver says active research project and gives the time, i'm told it has 2601 hours to run.
the game has had timer issues ever since I was playing the game for me, and that was when the first accessibility beta was released.

On the plus side the asteroid fields are accessible, and they are quite fun to play, but I think the explanation text needs to be a bit more helpful to explain how they work, as I quickly worked it out, but I think other people might struggle especially as all it says is drag your finger over the screen to find an asteroid and that you complete the field once they are destroyed, it took me a while to find the tone that you have to home in on and listen for the increasing pitch to find the asteroid. but its great they are now accessible, I want to have some more to do. also, I never got a notification from testflight that a new beta was available, was it just decided to release this withut testing or did apple hold the beta up?
I just observed something else, if I go to the space map this also pauses the boost timers and I no longer get money till I actually reopen my active colony.

unfortunately when you are running a testflight build you never get notified about appstore updates, so to get the latest version go to the appstore and reinstall from there. It is worth it, but I have had a few crashes where the game has exited and thrown me back to the home screen.

i'm fed up though with not having an accurate idea of where buildings are in relation to each other in my colony, when you first start out its not a problem, but when you have big missions to complete like needing 1090 colonists it becomes a huge issue. I frequently build things and find I have stuck them in the middle of nowhere because of not having the contextual information I need. i'm now at a stage where its costing me about 50000 to explore, and over 60000 to put up most buildings, and that's no joke if you find you are wasting money putting things up which you think are next to each other because of the way accessibility works but they are not. literally I think the current colony i'm in is unwinnable at the moment, I've been working on this for several days off and on, plus put a load of upgrade kits into it so not happy. much as I like the game, I guess the issue is that there trying to retro fit accessibility to a concept originally designed for sighted players. I know the issue is that the tiles are not square which doesn't help. don't give up on accessibility improvements, I guess i'm just disheartened and irritated because of all the effort I've put in and my colony has turned into a mess through no fault of my own. I had a very clear vision of how I wanted it to be and its not like that. the issue is also building numbers change as the colony expands and as it dynamically alters to add in new space. I also find it hard to keep track of what buildings are connected to each other its hard to review this information.