Stop all the Bugs first !!

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I maybe a minority here but I feel this late in the game development, the focus should be on killing all the bugs. I think the new features are required but I also believe until the program is a bug free as it can get new features can wait.

The program is going to be released in about 6 weeks and needs to be made as stable as possible.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
The Development team actually got an EMail along these lines over the weekend, that we've reached a cut off point in game features and to work on weeding out all the current bugs on our list (and what a list it is) ;)
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Time is short. You are really going to have to "boogie" on those bugs. (Sorry, Scott. I just couldn't resist) LOL LOL
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
March 25th is the release date guys. It's February 10th.

Bug fixing has been going in earnest already and continues.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

And in all fairness, the game isn't that buggy. I've yet to crash to desktop in Beta 5

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Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
Bugs are totally unaceptible in this day and age. You
never see a Microsoft program crash.

I had the gag when I typed that last line..


Bugs I noticed that still exist but in all fairness are hard to reproduce and are rare.

It is still possible to overflow something and get all the cash, planets, ships etc of an Alien race in a trade.

The game does still crash it has happened once for me and by reading the posts several people including Brad had a crash.
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
Let me be clear: I'm making no promises that the game will be free of some cheese tactic. If a player wants to ruin the game for themselves that is their business.

That doesn't mean that we won't try to kill cheese tactics as we find them or hear about them. But if I'm given the choice to solve some cheese tactic or add a better game setup screen or somemthing, I'm going to choose the latter.
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
Frogboy
Here's one of the cheese tactics in diplomacy, If the a.i. has 7 colony ships, trade him a tech, select 7 colony ships in a row, the screen will go green, you can take all his tech, planets, all of his money for 9000 months and most of his ships after that. I'll see if that works for 7 transports, battle ships, etc...
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Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top
Louie,

I have seen this too (back in 4Z) it appears to be an odd number of items (!), and only seems to be the case for minor races. To be more explicit trades like this always seem to occur with minor races:
1) Select two of their planets (yellow trade)
2) Offer a technology (yellow trade)
3) Select another planet (green every time).

I will look for a save game with this.
Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top
The "cheese" tactics mentioned by midnight louie sounds more like a BUG than cheese. You shouldnt' be able to get an acceptable trade by increasing your demands.

BTW, another BUG that is still in (at beta 5, I have not DLed 5A yet) is being able to get money from a minor race for a tech or trade good for 999999(9999) months.