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  • I don't even know what all the limitations are. It would take some time to inspect the code and think about what they all are. This feature cuts a narrow path through a large and complex engine, to optimise one very specific feature. I basically have no idea what will happen if you use it any other way than identically to the Function plugin.

  • Usually I get several people a day telling me different things should be our top priority, and they're all different. When everything's a priority, nothing is. It's difficult to prioritise things, I wrote a bit about the considerations in the feature suggestions guidelines. There are dozens of things I'd love to do, we can't possibly do them all, and even the ones we do choose we can't have done instantly. It all takes a long time to develop and test, and every feature as a small long-term overhead of continued maintenance as well. So we have to be a bit ruthless about how we prioritise.

  • You can post suggestions here: https://construct3.ideas.aha.io/

  • The reason we prefer using the issue tracker is it keeps everything in one place. This forum post will sink down the pages after a few weeks and end up getting forgotten. If it's on the issue tracker, it can be assigned to the right developer and they'll come back to it when they next have time to review issues.

  • I'm with Havok. All I would need is something simple to keep the casual user from copying the game or running it on another site.

    Encryption and obfuscation won't prevent someone copying the game wholesale. You probably want domain lock instead. It's covered in this tutorial.

  • Yes, I would've loved if the app building service they offer was for C2 as well, without having to pay the full C3 subscription price. Hell, I wouldn't even mind paying a smaller fee for that service.

    I think it's worth pointing out that the personal subscription for Construct 3, which gives you access to the full software and the build service, costs less than a PhoneGap Build subscription, which is just a build service. You can also use C3 to build C2 projects.

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  • That kind of fullscreen mode is not currently supported. It looks like "scale inner up to a maximum aspect ratio at which point use letterbox". You can use scale inner to get the mobile behavior though.

  • Of course we care about third-party plugins. We went to lengths to release the addon SDK early on in the public beta so developers could get a head start. In this case R0J0hound is pretty much spot on. Some features are quick hacks for single features. In the case of the Function plugin fast-triggers have some pretty bizarre limitations because they're designed for exactly one use case. Rather than fix the limitations or document them, they're just undocumented and not intended for any third-party use. We're a small company perpetually pushed for time with many users demanding various bug fixes or new features all the time, and it could take 3-4x as long to flesh out a quick hack in to a proper fully-documented general-purpose feature. There's no clear reason to do that and even if there was, it'd have to be a really good reason to justify prioritising it above something else, like working on the new C3 runtime, fixing C2/C3 bugs, etc.

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    Does changing the icon caching option in preferences affect this?

  • There's no API for that yet. What do you need it for?

  • Please file a bug report following all the guidelines, or there's nothing we can do to help.

  • We've always wanted to do this, we've just never had the resources to. We're a small team, and there's always other work to be done - everything from developing other new services to maintaining payment systems to working on internal tools, etc. etc. I really would love to just click my fingers and have it done but sadly life is more complicated than that. Our focus for this year is to start migrating everything on scirra.com over to construct.net which is a huge project and will probably tie us up for quite a while. As I said we still want to do an official plugin database, but I wouldn't hold your breath.

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