[Lord Felix]

Apparent bug.

In a previous ver. 1.0 game I had the Hand Scanners device. They worked perfectly. The effect is "L.O.S. Not blocked on planets." That means you can see everything out to the limit of your spacesuit's visibility range, even if it's behind a mountain or in a forest. Invaluable! I think this is the most valuable device in the game. If you have a spacesuit with vis. 9, you can explore an entire planet in about 5 seconds!

Later in that game, I found an artifact that had the same effect. It worked the same, consistently.

In my current ver. 1.1 game, I found Hand Scanners and they worked as before.

Then I found an artifact with the same effect.

But now, in my current game, when using the artifact but not the device, the effect short-circuits from time to time and everything goes dark.

This happens regularly. It goes back to normal after maybe 5 to 10 moves. At times this is dangerous and disconcerting. I'd say the effect now works properly only about 2/3rds of the time.

Is this a bug or a feature?

By the way, the Hand Scanners themselves work just as always. It's only the artifact with that effect that now is regularly crapping out.

If this is part of a general make-it-harder effort, then I think that's fine.