Question for CariElf: you said you were letting the game run in an automated mode to explore the disappearing ships. When you do this, is the random number generator seed set to a fixed value (e.g. zero)? If so, do the ships become invisible at the exact same point every time?

Thanks, did what was suggested in the posts mentioned, was able to play the game for 2 hours with no lockup or crashes. Did notice the lettering on the technoligy reporting window, was not visable anymore, both background and letter as too dark to see.
Also, and this only happened once, within 20 mins of starting a new game, the game tried to grind to a stop, it slooowwwed way down for about 20 sec, got back up to normal speed and did not reappear after that.
Again, thanks for the prompt and professional support. Makes a major difference on wether or not I will be buying any expansion packs. which I must say is a yes atm.

Glenn

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Sorry I've been away but things have been pretty frantic at work (it being a hospital no surprise there!) but I've found chance to come back to my post now... oh dear, sorry but just HAVE to say to this...



Try speaking to ATARI about the pathetic Tech Support for MOO3 and how the patches actually made the game worse before they abandoned the game entirely, you attitude seems to fit in well with ATARI quite frankly

Other than that, can't be bothered to continue it anymore. Glad to see a few others agreed with me though. Trolls are fortunately something we don't suffer very much on the forum I'm glad to say, lets hope this was a one off
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fadden: No, I just make it so that no pop ups can come up and interrupt the game, and make it not stop when the humans are wiped out.  The ships becomes invisible as soon as the #257 unique image, not necessarily a ship, attempts to load.

 

 

The ai seems to be able to research large scale building without the prerequisite hyper warp. Ive seen this in most every game where i have been neutral or evil and had to trade for the tech.

Well, I was just playing a game, going along nicely, all of a sudden the game crashed on me. So I try to load the autosave game. When it loaded up, the tech window popped up with no techs in it to research. I closed that out and i get a red screen where the viewing area should be.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the pre-req for Large Scale Building 1D Phasing? I seem to recall a thread somewhere about having Hyper Warp as Large Scale Building's pre-req was an error. I forget if the data .zip files that Cari posted fixed it or if it was something I had to manually do. Again, someone correct me if I'm wrong.
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1 D Phasing is required for Large Scale Building if yours says hyperwarp it needs to be changed the other is Xeno Intimidation its wrong too if either of those say hyperwarp in the GCTechs.TECH file they need to be changed to _1DPhasing or d/l the fix Cari did in the sticky thread for the Tech Sharing UP Issues thread

~SDC~

I just experianced an instant game exit. I had just loaded the game, and after loading a saved civilization, I was adjusting the galaxy map scale using the " = " and " - " buttons in the upper right corner. The scale changed, but I hit the "-" button one too many times, and the whole column changed into a bunch (5 or6) of seperate "windows" with nothing but a grid in each one. I left clicked in one and nothing happened, but then I right clicked in one and I was looking at my desktop and there were no programs displayed in the taskbar. I am using MS XP-Pro on an Athelon 2200+ with Nvidia 5200 FX, with new drivers for all (as of 1-25-04).

Thanks,

Jack

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I had 5 freighters as a fleet going to the dregins and after getting them all in the game dropped to desktop.

G'day Carielf,
this isn't a bug report but a success report.

A submission that worked!!!!

Copy saved game folder elsewhere. Uninstalled GC, Stardock central, removed menu entries, used regedit to delete all registry keys I could find. Shutdown/restart, ran Norton to clean up any hanging registry etc. entries, shutdown/restart.

Re download stardock central, install, shutdown/restart. Used Stardock central to download GC (no AP). Shutdown restart, start GC OK. Shutdown GC. Copy saved games back into position. Start GC, load ended game, win! Submit, play with name/email on submision, get firewall to recognise/permit, resubmit.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Yes it did take a while, stardock download was usually only 35kb/sec, multimedia took LONG time!)

Theres a problem where a civ's list of allies lists itself as one.

e.g.The Altarian's had the Altarian republic as one of its allies.

Just a small prob, doesnt exactly make the game unplayable

Hurley: Glad to hear it.

You are going to have to come to Oz that is more chocolate I owe you!

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I second the disappearing ship complaint. Disappearing ships! It's really irritating! I have to shutdown-reopen the game, which is irritating because I have a small ram card and a slower processor, so it takes a bit of time to load up. Something also interesting is that this NEVER happened to me even once prior to the latest patch. Now it happens regularly, after maybe 2-3 hours of play.
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mr.mike, CariElf already wrote many details about the disappearing images bug. The bottom line is that it will be fixed with the next patch GC 1.2.
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is that why the patch that was supposed to come has not come?


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ummmm.... I've just re-installed everything.. 1.13 and I can still build starbases next to each other... I know that your not supposed to be able to but somehow i can.. ?????



I'm reporting this error just so that others can't say that i'm taking advantage of this error.. (I found it out by accident.. and no.. I don't believe i took advantage of it..

I've gotten the starbase rule limit all straightened out for 1.2.  But note that starbases on resources don't count in the rule of 3 spaces, and that it only applies to starbases in the same sector. 

I thought that we would put up another build before we put in logistics, but now we have to wait a bit until we're sure that's ready before we can put up 1.2.  I don't have a schedule for our next update either for Altarian Prophecy or Gal Civ 1.2.

ummmm... Cari.. I've installed a mod that changes the Star Trek Mod into the mods folder.. But now I'm getting Doubleups of Things to be built.. can you tell me what i've done wrong.. Enerything else seems ok..

The problem with doule social projects is that when setting up goveners sometimes it stuffs up the list and won't go past some built items (goes to building nothing) I only select an Item once.. not twice as is listed

Ooops, looks like Improvements is the one data type that isn't set to merge duplicates.  I'll fix that.

Cari, I have an interesting little predicament. I've already won this game, but while I was playing I had ten fully moduled "culture stars" or "party planets" whatever you call a terror star with +343% influence. This was resulting in >40,000,000 influence. The only problem was that every once and a while the influence would just turn off.

I've sent the save game to you, Cari.

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AmulekBird, did you reload a saved game? Influence needs two turns to rebuild after an reload.

Actually, no, I am aware of the refresh time for influence. This happened several times during a continuous 3 hour session. Thanks for asking, though. That was my first thought, by I squashed it as soon as I realized it couldn't be that way--influence just kept turning on and off. I'm betting that it got so high that the game had a hard time dealing with the calculations--decided to rest for a while LOL.
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