Game CRASHES CONSISTANTLY when you: Destroy all your colonies. Hit Turn. Game Crashes. Repeatable.

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In both games I have played the 3rd square below the upper left hand corner of the map is always revealed even though I never explored there. I've noticed this after reloading the saved game.

In response to:
#626 by Citizen Baerd - 4/13/2003 11:33:16 AM

Tribute from the dead.

This is exactly what happened to me, and even stranger: If you conquer the last planet from an AI race and go to diplomacy screen, you can MAKE PEACE with them in exchange for huge tribute. This is strange: what is peace to them if they haven't got any planets left, and they will be extinct the next turn. This is bad; especially since this tribute can continue for many, many more months.

Something similar: After conquering an AI's last planet you can still TRADE with that empire. I can give the empire (who will be dead the next turn) all my tech and receive all their tech and HUGE amounts of tribute. This is imho a bug that needs fixing!

In my last game, I decided to disband a bunch of Defenders I didn't need to save on maintenance. Before doing that, I clicked on a stack of Corvettes, then clicked on a planet that had a Defender in orbit. I clicked the Defender icon, then hit the X to disband it. However, it disbanded one the Corvettes from the stack I had clicked earlier, even though the ship info readout was for the Defender in orbit.

I tried this with other ships in space, too. I clicked on the USS Hero, then clicked on a planet with a ship in orbit. I'd click on the orbit-icon for the ship, then the X on the readout at the bottom (which listed the orbiting ship), but it asked if I wanted to disband the Hero, instead.


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Certain random events and UN topics for vote should be flagged and not repeatable. I've had the UN Council pass the 25% trade tax to protect freighters 3 times in one game. I'm not positive, but I did notice a drop in revenue each time, so I think it keeps deducting the 25% each time as cumulative penalties. :notsure:

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There is something odd about autopilot. I find that if I set the next destination for a survey ship
it often takes one or two presses of the end turn button before it actually starts moving - whereas,
if I move it manually on the next turn it does have its proper movememt points ...

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I recently started a medium map with intelligent opponents (iirc) and was doing very well when
the game CTD on the computer's move. I tried reloading, got the initial research/planet dialog
but it was garbled(fonts) and empty. Clicking on done there, would show the main window in
red (no starmap) and then the game would CTD again.
Reloaded the penultimate autosave - it plays for a turn and then CTD again. (I had autosave set
to 1 turn so I can backtrack and make observations about bonuses etc).

will email save games if programmers interested.

-P.

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I got 2 bugs ones a big one...

Alright the big one is that when you pay tribute to another race (like a tribute of 10,000+) they get the money but you also do! 500,000,000 b.c. is my record so far. Its a big bug and it makes my scores really high.

the 2nd one is it keeps exiting out. I load a game and as soon as it loads it quits. when I start up my civilization from scratch it exits out 8 minutes into the game.

Hehe... umm yeah, I GUESS this is a bug. IF you have a new political party that provides bonuses to 23 or 24 abilities, when you go to change to the senate voting screen and then have your political party win, GC crashes. Not sure how important this is since anyone using a political party like that is cheating already anyway!!!!

A really small bug, doesn't affect the game but some people might notice.

When you build the Virtual Reality Center it says "18 and old" instead of "18 and older"

A very annoying bug I encounter is when a planet I own is attacked and the defending ship is destroyed then I get a messagesaying my defenses are holding.!!!!. What defeneses? They were just destroyed! It seems I have "Bagdad Bob" working as my defense minister!

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Ah just finished winning on Painful - it was enjoyably painful My new round of problems:

- planet build cues sometimes change for no reason that I can detect (extra click somewhere?). ex, I will have a planet set to build a Dread yet the next thing I know it's produced a battle cruiser... Sometimes I will go check my cue and it will be building something off my gov's list vs what I had it set to (like a trade good). Very odd and hard to point the finger at any one thing, but it happens often enough to make the list.

- I get a CTD late game when I try to look at my Stats tab (I have a saved game where it happens in case you want me to send it to you guys). I have a beafy system that's never had more than the very occational crash (1-2 times a game max - but this one happened every time I tried).

Minor notes:

- AI does not use Rangers to harvest anomolies even on Int setting - seen them pass one square away from stuff many times (I had Eyes of the Universe so I saw pretty much everything around me). Made me happy when they built those cause they were useless and they did not grab my anomolies (yes, I had a "Property of Terrans" sign up).

- This has bugged me from game 1 though I have dealt but...turn 1 and "next" turn mean the same thing for all logical, rational purposes. I know you computer geeks like to count 0 but that makes absolutely NO sense when you say something will be built in 1 month, and then 1 month later you say it will be built next month. Minor but it's an instance where you should forget about your damn 0.

- I am pretty sure I have a game where the AI (Torran) colony ship went far far past it's normal range to try and take a star I had already colonized. It had no planets or bases within about 6-8 squares (far longer than I could reach without planting my "stretch bases". Have the saved game as well if you guys wanna view it.

For the millionth time, thanks for all your wonderful efforts. Now, time to up the ante...

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Sometimes my combat animations and explosions grind to a halt, I mean a ridiculous halt, like 60+ seconds to complete. When this happens, I see one of the following messages(listed from most common to least commonly occurring), depending on ship type I think, output to the debug.err file:

Debug Message: Could not find animation titled Default in model 35Decoration (PlayAnimation)
Debug Message: Could not find animation titled Default in model 0Decoration (PlayAnimation)
Debug Message: Could not find animation titled Icon24Trans in model 0ecobase01 (PlayAnimation)

Any ideas?

olaf

In response to my own message:
#630 by Citizen dikdirk - 4/13/2003 3:23:31 PM

The AI should consider giving money for a long duration when asking for peace, but it should STOP paying after you declare war or do anything else that goes against the agreement you made. In this way the player will be forced to think twice before breaking an agreement. And it stops the way a player gets an unfair advantage.

Some new bugs. But first I want to second what dikdirk said in the post above. Dead and pissed-off people don't pay.
What I found:

- How to kill off your own population with a bug: Select a transport in space. Then select a planet. Click on the "start ship" symbol. The menu for loading population on the transport appears. Any number chosen will simply vanish if you click "launch".

- Typo in diplo message: "Our people are wary of this war. What can we do to return to peace?" "Wary" should read "weary", right?

- The setting for music volume is not saved. I have to turn it up any time I start the game. At least when using the MP3 player, dunno if otherwise...

- Is this a bug? No matter how many additional trade routes you research, you can never have more than ten. Bug or feature?

not sure if this has been reported before, so i figured i'd mention it...

whenever you recieve (through trade) a tech that you were currently researching, unless you remember to go and pick a new tech to research (the screen doesn't come up automaticly), it just researches nothing forever, wasting all the money you put into research until you remember to fix it...

oh, and you should teach the AI to use SE and HI in order to colonize class 13 and 14 planets...

I donated a Dreadnought and a starbase with a lot of military improvements including repair modules to the carinidoids, but they still insist on fighting one sector out of their home sector, thereby giving up on the starbase boni. I would call this ai behavior suboptimal, to put it mildly.

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the slider for changing planet spending to increase morale should really go on the first page of teh planet view, not on the details page

Orbital Biospheres (downloaded from the library), can't seem to complete. Whenever I start it, it always appears as around 9/10 complete with 1 turn left from the beginning, but does not complete (it simply removes it from the queue).

If I pay to finish it early, the amount is decucted but the bio spheres drop off from the queue (and show again as one turn left if added).

When I load a saved game I have noticed that sometimes my Influence takes an immediate and drastic hit but recoups over a couple of turns. My income seems off on occasion as well. Is the game saving data correctly or is my imagination at work?

The influence seems to be a multi turn calculation :notsure: which takes some time to develope but gets there in a couple of turns.

Elrikk

PS I know. Clear as mud.



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At a certain point, Cultural victory stays at 12mts for years. At some point I finally get a message saying I am 12 mounths away and then the stat changes correctly.


Jeff


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I have finished 2 games Won one lost one. game crashed both times while clicking through the after game stats.

Still having those goddamn combat slowdowns after a reinstall. I am getting a little pissed off. Is there a tech board, or a contact for Stardock tech support? I submitted a ticket with Strategy First but I am sure that wont get anywhere.

olaf