SkyChart: Airline Executive — Patch Notes v0.2.41.6 → v0.2.42.23

SkyChart: Airline Executive — Patch Notes v0.2.41.6 → v0.2.42.23

Chief flight inspector Casey the Macaw would like a word. Several words, actually.

v0.2.42.23 — Casey Installs a Real Weather Office (Phase 1 of 4)

• New harvest pipeline pulls real climatology data: NOAA IBTrACS tropical cyclones, NOAA NGDC volcanic eruptions (VEI 3+), and 30 years of Open-Meteo ERA5 wind/pressure/precip/cloud.

• Dormant WeatherSim autoload wired in, feature-flagged off. Old storm system still flies.

• Harvest pipeline is dev-only — triple-locked out of shipped builds.

v0.2.42.21 — Fleet Repaint, Benchmark Memory, ESC Unstuck

• Planes pushed 55% toward white, so they stand out against their own route colors.

• Performance Tuning screen now skips on subsequent campaigns when the hardware fingerprint matches.

• Single-click a city properly clears stale route origins; drag-drop uses an atomic open call.

• Pan speed now scales with zoom (up to +150%) and flick velocity (+60%).

• ESC with no panels open opens the save/exit dialog on the first press.

v0.2.42.20 — Hangar, Cockpit, Clipboard

• All planes composite into a single CanvasGroup draw call (big GPU win late-game).

• Route drag-preview line now tracks the cursor every frame and clears on release.

• HUD button locks: tutorial/campaign can gate Routes, Finance, Company, Awards, Rivals, and Map.

v0.2.42.19 — Pan Lever Re-Geared

• Vertical pan is now 1:1 at every zoom level (previously yeeted you into the Pacific at low zoom).

• Stripped a dev-tooling path leaking into shipped binaries across 30 locales.

v0.2.42.18 — Broken Intercom Unplugged

• Fixed a missing get_current_date() call that was crashing the HUD at boot.

• Silenced spammy Not Enough Cash / Advanced to Month / Route closed warnings.

• HUD now hides during Era/Difficulty/Mode/Airline/Performance setup screens.

• Fixed eight broken tr() wrappers in Quarterly Report and Strategy Planner.

v0.2.42.17 — Separate Music & SFX Volume

• Music and Sound Effects are now separate audio buses with independent sliders in Settings.

v0.2.42.16 — Ghost Signals Silenced

• Fixed spammy OptionButton PopupMenu disconnect errors during UI rebuilds (9 panels, 16 sites).

• Repaired 29 broken translation wrappers across 7 panel scripts.

v0.2.42.15 — Menu Playlist + Volume Pipeline

• Menu music is now a proper two-track playlist with smooth crossfades.

• Rewired volume so the Music bus handles all attenuation — no more double-applied volume.

v0.2.42.14 — Localization: 29 Languages

• 763 UI strings wrapped for translation across 50+ scripts.

• PO scaffolding for all 29 Steam-supported languages.

• Language override selector added to Settings.

• Community Weblate server is live with GitHub webhook auto-sync.

v0.2.42.13 — Steam Deck Inspection

• Tile loader now sniffs magic bytes (PNG/JPEG/WebP) before decoding — kills hundreds of log errors.

• Fixed Steam overlay signal arity (3 args, not 1).

• Virtual keyboard consumes save/load/back actions while open, so dialogs stop hijacking it.

• AI rivals now log diagnostic squawks at every silent-exit checkpoint.

v0.2.42.12 — Buy All Hubs

• One-click "Buy All Hubs" button in Strategic Advisor's Hub Investments tab.

v0.2.42.11 — Reroute Around the Storm

• FAA-style weather avoidance: routes curve around active storms, deviation scales with intensity.

• Geodesic simplification threshold 0.45 → 0.15, segment count 32 → 48 (smoother arcs).

• Routes refresh every 8 seconds to track moving storms — airplane animator paths follow.

v0.2.42.10 — Right-Click Dismiss

• Right-click closes any DraggableWindow, same as ESC or B on the controller.

v0.2.42.9 — Cargo Bay Doors Sealed

• ScreenshotCapture autoload is now editor-only (no more F12 capture in shipped builds).

• .vscode/ excluded from exports — no leaking dev paths.

• Robust save loading: route color fields use safe.get() with defaults; missing cities/aircraft warn instead of silently dropping routes.

• Accessibility pass: close button, HUD icons, and airline color picker all palette-routed with tooltips.

v0.2.42.8 — Full Airworthiness Inspection

• Upgrades scanner rewritten to use the main-thread snapshot pattern (zero GameManager reads in worker).

• Added _exit_tree() cleanup so the Upgrades thread can't outlive the node.

• Fixed HTTPRequest.use_threads missing macOS guard in tile_detail_layer.gd.

• Fixed 9 style.bg_color.a = 0.5 value-type assignments across 5 files.

v0.2.42.7 — Cinematic Shorts Director

• Scripted shorts pipeline: camera flyovers, staggered route spawns, aircraft stat cards, revenue charts.

• Portrait and landscape render modes; AVI → MP4 via ffmpeg.

v0.2.42.6 — Strategic Advisor Unstuck (BUG-020)

• Recommender no longer skips every pair where any airline has a route — only skips pairs the player flies.

• Added 5 missing demand multipliers to recommender projections (regional index, city boom, feeder, specialization, union membership).

• Rival attraction constant replaced with difficulty-aware get_ai_demand_multiplier().

• Maintenance rate tuned from 1.5%/mo → 0.5%/mo (~6%/yr) via a single MAINT_RATE_PER_MONTH constant across 8 files.

• Carbon tax scales with fleet size: $30K × fleet × age_mult (was flat $100K/route).

• Route renderer: viewport AABB culling + low-zoom line simplification + pan-triggered dirty flag. No more multi-second hangs on 2000-route saves.

• world_map.gd: bucketed route visual cache + sparse delivery-ring tracking set.

• Vertical map clamp tightened to 5% slack; 5 inline copies consolidated into one helper.

v0.2.42.5 — Phantom Lambda Captures (BUG-019)

• _disconnect_ui_signals() now walks every persistent child manager (event_manager, alliance_manager, market_dynamics, slot_auction_manager) — fixes menu-cycle crash on Windows.

v0.2.42.4 — Tower Actually Closes at Night (BUG-018)

• RouteRecommender.cleanup() is now actually called from GameManager on window close — scan threads join cleanly on quit.

v0.2.42.3 — Mac Crash at Dictionary::get+68 (BUG-017)

• Snapshot cache invalidated by reassignment (_cache = {}) instead of in-place clear — no more racing with worker reads.

• Trackpad pinch-to-zoom rewritten: multiplicative scaling, cursor-tracked anchor, softened velocity.

v0.2.42.2 — Steam Review Followups

• Help & Controls Help tab now scrolls with the right stick on controllers.

• Tutorial action-set fix: WindowManager scans for any visible window in the overlay, not just known-by-name.

• Steam overlay auto-pause: waits for the Steam ready signal, retries on the next frame.

• Steamworks Auto-Cloud paths documented for Windows/Mac/Linux.

v0.2.42.1 — Route Recommender Threading Rewrite (BUG-013)

• Main-thread snapshot pattern: workers now read ZERO GameManager state. Fixes Array refcount crash from worker reading active_routes mid-autosave.

• Async callback API replaces the busy-wait loop.

v0.2.42.0 — Aircraft Delivery Delays & Order Book

• New purchases take 1–6 months, depending on model size and global backlog.

• Leased aircraft arrive in 1 month; hangar aircraft still deploy instantly.

• Difficulty-scaled delivery time (0.5× Glider → 1.3× Supersonic).

• New On Order tab in Fleet Overview with progress bars and a cancel option (15% restocking fee).

• The world map shows a delivery progress ring at the midpoint of waiting routes; awaiting-delivery routes glow blue.

v0.2.41.12 — Steam Deck Controller Fixes

• D-pad now passes through on all 5 controller configs (era/difficulty/menu navigation).

• Select/View button remapped to open Settings on every screen.

• Route culling removed — no more flight paths vanishing on zoom/pan.

• ScrollContainer joystick input is disabled on the save screen (DraggableWindow already handles it).

v0.2.41.11 — Zoom-to-City Fix

• Uses true map coordinates instead of wrapped screen position — every city lands dead-center now.

v0.2.41.10 — AI Rival Overhaul

• FixedThe 111× cost bugroute costs were being computed in km against a degree budget. Fixed — AI rivals actually fly now.

• AI expansion chance rebalanced across difficulty (20% Glider → 50% Supersonic).

• Early-era AI candidate search tripled + range pre-filter, so Forge Trimotors stop dreaming of Tokyo→London.

• AI establishes 2–4 routes at game start (scaled by difficulty) and ramps dynamically when falling behind.

• Route income now starts flowing from day one, rather than at the first-month boundary.

• AI fleet caps, pricing aggression, war triggers, cash reserves, maintenance, and demand multipliers (1.05×–1.40×) all scale with difficulty.

v0.2.41.6 — Flight Inspection Report

• Fixed 13 corrupted em-dashes in the tutorial.

• Tutorial spotlight gracefully hides when the target window isn't open (no more full-screen highlights).

• "Swap All" → "Upgrade All" name corrected across 4 docs.

• AI receivership: keeps top 60% of profitable routes flying; airlines can emerge early if cash rebuilds.

• The tutorial card shows a visible ⏸ Game paused by the tutorial indicator.

• The tutorial auto-advances when the correct panel is opened via a keyboard shortcut.

• Chapter 9 now pops a live Event Explainer demo (Jet Age 1958).

• Era Objectives double-rebuild race fixed with a guard flag.

• Tutorial text corrected: Legacy Lounge is on the era victory screen, not the main menu.

• Controller cursor bumped to layer 110 — always on top of Save/Load and Quarterly Report windows.

Casey appreciates your patience. He has filed the paperwork in triplicate.