Helixteus 3

Hi Apple is the game still being worked on?

hey apple is the game still being worked on ??

what commands can you use? I'm just curious.

Weird bug in galaxy view: when enabling the color scale to look for high luminosity stars, after entering a system and returning to the galaxy view, the scale is broken. The max point (red color) is changed to a lower value so that a good part of the galaxy is red now, without any indication of something changing (i.e. I don't see the undo-custom-values arrow). Switching to a different view and back kinda fixes the problem but is annoying to do after looking at each system.

I haven't tested if the other views are affected, too. I never encountered similar bug in cluster view.

quick question how do you get the small s of stone very quickly? I need it to build the giga structures to hold more power so i can then destroy a galaxy which will give me big S of stone.

I am having a wierd bug where all the Boring machines don't mine and are stuck at a depth and don't mine any resources..
A few of the terraformed planets are stuck at depth 0. I dont know if this is a bug with 30 fps or my system. (My system: MacOS, MacBook Air (M2, 2022), 16 GB ram)

edit: switched to 60 fps, didnt fix it.. it could also be from me switching windows to chat on discord.
edit 2: ok I've fixed it, restarting the game fixes it kinda, it gives me the depth and stone i would've got except from the terraformed mining planets.

Hey i have an issue with binary and larger systems. I can't put a Dyson Sphere on the smaller stars and I think a fix to this would to place the smaller stars layer over the bigger star

are greenhouses permanite becuase i can't delete the three i placed

Love this game! Is there a way to load up multiple subatomic particle farms or atom manipulators the way you can for glass/rock plants?

1 - GAME-BREAKING BUG

Galaxies disappear (about 2/3 of them)

Occurrence: frequent

Possible cause: converting all galaxies in another local group

There used to be more galaxies, including a galaxy with bookmark where the white circle is. The bookmarks do nothing.

(Occasionally they are reset including terraformed planets and megastructures)

And some bookmarked planets go crazy, look at this 4 x 2 planet.

2 - UI & Notes persist

Even after exiting the game, the notes persist and can be dragged around with the mouse.

After attempting to exit a bookmark that doesn't work, the loading progress bar is always displayed.

3 - QOL Bright star galaxies

Add in overlay menu for galaxies the option to show the the brightest star for every galaxy.

4 - QOL Convert local cluster

Add option to convert all galaxies in local cluster, it is too time consuming to convert hundreds, thousands of galaxies manually.

In the excavation of meteorite craters, when the digging speed is too fast (consuming one durability can dig more than ten meters or even deeper), it will have a huge impact on the corresponding metal production. The graph below shows the production of a lead meteorite crater with approximately the same height and similar digging depth using an iron pickaxe and a wooden pickaxe. It is obvious that the iron pickaxe, which has a faster digging speed, has less production than the wooden pickaxe. I haven't figured out the reason yet.

In the new version, the spaceship's thrusters have failed! I can't accelerate the spaceship, and it also deducts the corresponding materials from me.

1.When traveling to other planets, if you choose a plutonium drive, the interface will not change. The abilities and superweapons will not be available during battles.

2. When the fighter completes its attack on a galaxy or galaxy cluster, if the attacked object is not manually disbanded by finding it and clicking it, it will still be considered not fully conquered. I think it would be best if it automatically becomes a conquered state.

3. I have played in five dimensions already, but I feel like something is missing. I am not fully aware of the game's development progress, but I think there is still a lack of a final goal (such as defeating a boss with a spaceship or something else). Because collecting DR points repeatedly can be demotivating.

4. In Helixteus 2, you can craft bombs and also create some ship enhancement crystals. In my opinion, it would be even better if these could be added.

5. In the later stages, I like to challenge high-difficulty planets and try to find powerful enemies, but at most I have only found level 98 enemie in blue, and I have difficulty finding more difficult opponents.

I'm sorry for asking so many questions and not being able to provide substantial help such as programming for this game. I will continue to play this game and explore possible issues. PS: The Bad Apple is pretty good.

I've been having state corruption issues with this game from time to time. From a greenhouse that can't be destroyed (or does but then comes back), to a planet that's ready to be killed but never does (and that persists if I destroy the planetkiller, save, close the game, reopen the game, load, and build a new one), and now my solar system being fully reset, I'm not sure if I can really keep going. Is there any way that providing my save would be able to help triage this further?

Hello! This game is really fun! However, I encountered some issues while playing on the Windows platform. I explored a total of five supercluster groups in the original universe and turned most of the galaxies into large-scale technology. Normally, I cannot click on a macro engineering planet that has already been transformed, but I accidentally clicked on one that was saved in my favorites, and the entire page went blank, and I couldn't do anything. PS: My English is not very good, and I used translation software.

Hi! I've found an issue regarding creating the first universe in the DR window. It behaves differently depending on whether you start without an universe loaded (i.e. you do it from the "start with x DR" option via the main menu) or it occurs at some points while there is an universe loaded. However, I can't seem to find a perfect reproduction with a loaded universe other than to load any save, exit, and use the "start with x DR" option. I think it very rarely occured to me in older versions. It could be because I exited the game in between dimension resets?

Normally, the game automatically generates an universe if Dimensional Power is below level 5 and that works just fine. However, once Dimensional Power is level 5 or above and the player clicks on the "Generate starting universe" button, the probe UI doesn't function in one or two ways, depending on the situation:

• Without a loaded universe, the button doesn't do anything.
• With a loaded universe, it tells me I don't have any triangulum probes available.

It's still an awesome game, and thanks for putting a link to the wiki in the game! I'm excited to give modding this game a go sometime.

Fighters stopped being detected in all galaxies after I deconstructed some (All galaxies read zero fighter ships even if fighter ships are present) - is this a known bug?

Ship abilities and superweapons don't work. and there is a bug where the sprite of an enemy killed by fire stays on the screen

not entirely sure how it happened, but I got to a point where the game started messing up my planets in all my universes, some are basically bigger planets that turned into smaller ones, and this one was a 87x87 agri base that somehow got turned into this.

The only guess I have is that it might be related to me having too many buildings? There were no crashes or me closing the game while it was saving, so it got corrupted by something in-game.
(I do have high time speed, so that also sometimes messes up other things like, again, ships getting forever-stuck in travel if you max out the speed slider to 0 seconds travel time between planets in a system on a high time speed with all the travel speedup researches, again my guess it that the division gets a float error and ends up ever so slightly negative, so even though it shows you 0 seconds left it never actually reaches exactly 0 which you seem to compare to when checking if it arrived yet)

有多少种方法可以取得初步进展？

Two recurring bugs in the new release:

1. Performance problems. Quite often, clicked galaxies just don't generate, leaving me with an unkillable loading bar on the screen that only game restart fixes (but then the galaxy in question won't be generated, ever). I have a pretty strong config, so hardware is certainly not an issue. The affected galaxies are usually high (1000+) DM ones.

EDIT: once the bug is in, many other galaxies generate but incompletely (e.g. 10 to 20 systems instead of thousands) or even completely empty.

2. Terraforming huge planets (1G+) in insanely high DM galaxies (10k+) still break the game (same thing I mentioned above: costs and XP generation get permanently broken in the universe). Since those planets would be important for further progress (even though their graphics is ugly covering most of the screen and the star itself, not to mention their physical impossibility), it would be great to have some solution on that one.

EDIT2: the inventory looks ugly, too when over 100 slots, but that's a minor cosmetic issue completely dwarfed by the stability and calculation problems. I don't know if those were introduced in the newest release, or it's just me who reached the stage where they are triggered, but I've never encountered a single one of those issues before.

EDIT 3 (I know this is getting a huge wall of text): when terraforming planets in a partially generated galaxy (i.e. a dozen starts instead of 100's or thousands), I noticed two things:

a) auroras blink for a moment, and then disappear. Don't know about their effects, though.

b) all is fine and dandy as long as I stay in the system, but as soon as I go up a level to galaxy view, the galaxy is "generated" again (at least those dozen or so systems), and whatever system I had before, all buildings included, is gone.

Some glitches/ideas regarding the new features:

1. There are too many broken megastructures, disabling the terraforming of otherwise valuable planets. Even that aside, it would be nice to have the option (either by default or as a tech) to downgrade and dismantle megastructures (or even gigastructures for that matter).

2. When encountering a level 0 broken megastructure, I can't repair it. The tooltip says I lack the technology, which I clearly don't (unless there is a hidden tech somewhere).

3. The ancient structures on the planets could be upgradeable and dismantleable. Also, the home planet's ancient shipyard seems to give XP to my ships regardless of where they are. Very nice as I hated the previous versions' battle XP grinding aspect, but maybe not working as intended.

As a general summary of the above, I believe that by late game, having become the leading star empire in control of entire superclusters, I should be able to do with structures what I damn well please. :)

Oops, looks like I accidentally broke the game. I discovered an insane system with planet sizes in G kilometers, and thought I'd test if they could house enough buildings to compete with the new, buffed gigastructures. I found that I could upgrade them (i.e. the buy window numbers remained green) past my actual money and energy capacity. When I did, the upgrade happened, but I stopped earning XP.  Starting a new universe didn't help, neither did a dimension reset. I don't earn any XP anymore, anywhere. So, now I'm stuck with a broken save I put many hours into. Could you please let me know how I can submit it so that you can take a look and hopefully debug it? Thanks!

Thanks for the improvements, especially the galaxy killer! :)

As for bugs, here's an interesting (and quite old) one: if you take the Solar system via conquer all or fighters (quite possible in later universes where you can build enough on your home planet to reach lvl 60, gather all 4 ships, and then steamroll through your home system), you never get the solar panel. Nix, nada, not a chance.

While pushing toward even stranger universes, I discovered another design glitch. So, as soon as dark matter reaches extreme levels (in excess of 100), converting those galaxies into gigastructures becomes unfeasible due to insane stone requirements.

What do I mean?

As I noticed, max. system size is 50 planets. At my level, the largest planets were between 1.5 and 1.7 Mkm, 2 to 4 of those per system. Based on that assumption, I would have to have PK'd some thousand systems (manually, as there is no auto-PK) to be able to convert an 1000-DM galaxy. Sure, it would have been a powerhouse (meaning my main source of minerals/research wouldn't have been imbalanced terraformed planets or megastructures anymore), but who would do so much manual work?

Besides the necessary late-game rebalancing, a stone-/metal-producing gigastructure would be nice - or the possibility to buy stone. I mean, you can already buy any amount of any material at a fixed price (which is quite unrealistic), so why not stone?