If found a shipyard bug. I continued a saved game and all of my user designed ships are gone from the shipyard. The ones that have already been built are still in the game, and the ones currently being built are still there, but I can't select any user designs as are they are no longer on the shipyard list. When I go a shipyard currently building my custom designs, nothing is displayed in the shipyard build window. I can't continue building a user designed ship when the currently building one is complete. The shipyard just becomes idle.

I checked the "My Documents/My Games" folder and the ship files are still there. They just no longer are available in the game.

I've noticed the same problem as PirateRob - the upgrade button strips off all the jewelry - but only after a save and load. Up until the save all the jewelry stays where it was during an upgrade, but afterwards, it's gone. Very annoying if you've downloaded any of the hull packs from the library! If you check the "keep functional parts during upgrade" box, the jewelry is still stripped off, but the functional parts stay - they're just tacked on the base hull at the closest point to where they were with the jewelry.

I also experienced the stripping of jewelry of the ships. I spent a lot of time making base ships on which to add my weapons and armor, and those ships, as well as the current ships in play have all the jewelry stripped off when I try to upgrade.

Ok here's a big one. I loaded up my saved game & none of my custom ships work right. They worked fine before I loaded my game. Now, whenever I click the upgrade button, it takes me to the ship but it's not the right hull and it's stripped of extras and the actual items on the ship are placed randomly on the hull. I can send in a saved game or whatever's needed.

I was thinking I might as well kick out a few suggestions...
- Maybe an option that when you select a ship, it re-centers your mini-map on that ship.
- Make the rally point list sortable alphabetically or by time (when it was created).
- When a GNN report comes up that says I've finished building something on a planet, I'd like if I could see ships in orbit around that planet somehow (tooltip maybe). If I could see exactly what I have there, I'd know if I want to change my ship-building there.

Unbeleivable work guys & gals

If you're looking at the starport for a given planet, the tooltip sometimes does not match the ship that you're hovering over, instead it's the name of another ship somewhere else entirely.

It appears that ships created in version 1.2 work just fine... but ships designed in versions prior to 1.2 will not upgrade properly. So, I have to re-do all my designs.. Its not as bad as I feared but still annoying. Rob

Strange because my ships from older versions upgrades correctly (with all their jewelry on).


Initial AI weapons choice still seem bugged and very unrandom to me. In my first game, all the six AI:s choose missiles. In my second, all AI:s choose guns.

There is also a typo when you choose mod-folder in Options and go to a folder without any mods in it. There is an 'A' that should be removed in the text to the right: "...this directory. AUse this folder...".

Thanks for the feedback, guys. We'll keep chipping away and will probably have another version before the end of the week.

simiesque: the planet details number actually shows the raw number before bonuses (and focus) are factored in, so the colony management number is actually the correct one

I still have the problem that ships which should fly to colony rally points do not in fact fly there but stay in the tile where the planet launches it's ships, and the autopilot is turned off. This appears to be more common if the planet/starting location is not currently visible when they get launched.

Just ran into an really bad and annoying bug in 1.20.009 beta, smae problem as sam0t, take a look at this. This is how one of my ships appears in the SHIPYARD SCREEN, which is exactly what it's supposed to look like:



HOWEVER, when i press the upgrade button and am taken to the UPGRADE screen, my ship then looks like this:




ANY IDEAS?

Just installed the latest beta 1.2 beta 1 . During the game I was researching Beyond Mortality. I was 45 weeks
from completing it and the game display goes black and the exe causes a windows error.

system specs

AMD 64 3500 +
2GB DDR 400
Asus A8V-E Deluxe
2 Maxtor 250 GB sata drives
DVD drive and DVD-+RW drive
WinXP with SP2 + latest patches
ATI 1600 pci-e 512mb with Omega drivers 3.8.252

Here is what I found:

1. The most and majorly annoying issue I have with that Beta-Patch is, that controlling my ships ain't what it used to be. Before the patch the ships where 1st doing there moves and then ship after ship without orders were selected to receive their new orders. This is no longer case. The ships are only semi-selected which means the status-bar shows that some ships are selected but I cannot order them around and they are not centered. I have to either click the ships or use Tab and C to get the same effect as before. This new behaviour caused me not noticing that Colony-Ships had reached their destination (a system with no colonizeable planets) to be sent to the next. I switched the Autofocus option on and off but didn't notice a change in the behaviour (or if there was a change, it was not what I wanted.)

2. While I could not find any totally horribly bugs in the buildup of AI-planets (like 10 Entertainments on 1 planet, as in 1.11) there seems to be an issue regarding the homeworlds. While the AI developes any other planet in a way, I can agree with, they just ceased building on their homeworld when only half of it was filled. It is not that they would not have been to slow about building and not come any further, the build que is empty. This was case with all home-planets I checked: Yor, Arceans, Thalans and Drath. I haven't seen that on any other planet but the homeworlds. This will hinder the AI especially on smaller maps with less planets and more opponents.

3. When Tech trading is off and someone wants tribute, you can still get the message, that "You are too poor to... So we demand some of your Techs." That way you can get away with a very small amount of tribute to keep agressors content.

4. Having Generic Leader of Custom Race greet me, was somewhat strange. I think the random picking of computer-players shall exclude the Custom Race.

5. I had two false positives about a threat of going to war. If three civs have planets near my fleets all three feel threatened and one of them even declared war. However, I like it that way. Better a false positive than an ignored threat.

Suralle, so you're saying if you have a 8 ship fleet vs an AI 4 ship fleet, only 4 of your ships would fire, not 8? Please check your ships that are not firing to make sure they have weapons. If they don't, they will not fire. If they do have weapons, could you please send your saved game to gc2bugs@stardock.com? Thanks.

Actually I have deleted them in the interest of reinstallation of the entire game due to the string not found error plus the fact that cheater codes were detected. However, I did send them to Carielf so she may have them, I will check when I get home to see if the email is still valid and forward them although I fear the zips were in the game area.

All ships I create have weapons in combat minus troopers. I can assure you that the post referred to was with all combatants with weapons aboard. Typically both Laser and Gun type with shielding. What would happen is:

Round 1: Everyone on both sides fires. Damage Calculated. Ships on both side destroyed if any.
Round 2: (I am the instigator) 8 Ship fleet, only 3 or 4 would fire (usually from what I can see however many defenders are left) than the defenders calculated fire happens.
Round 3: (Assuming defenders left) Only 1 or 2 of my ships fire (even though 6 or 7 maybe left) than 1 or 2 of defenders fire.

Now I understand that firing happens at the same time. The problem I am seeing is that not all of my ships that are capabable of firing in round 2 do not. Therefore I may have to go to round 3 where I may lose a ship that is damaged instead of it living like it should have if everyone had fired.

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W/R
Suralle Straykat
Kat Lord @ Large