DA Ship Movement Bug

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In Dark Avatar I often encounter a problem where ships are not given the full allotment of movement. For example, a ship is shown to have three movement points, but only is allowed to move two. This is not related to the "Isolationist" super ability, as it occurs even in games where no player has the "Isolationist" ability. I am currently running version 1.50X.072 of Dark Avatar. This bug existed in previous versions...I was hoping that it would be corrected in this patch.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I'm having the same problem, but my movement is stuck on "5" for EVERY ship. In other words, I can add 20 engines to my ship, but the "Moves Left:" will show (for example) 34/5. The first time my ship moves it moves all 34 spaces, but after that, it's stuck at 5 spaces, or 5/5. This is driving me nuts - any ideas?
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I'm having the same problem, but my movement is stuck on "5" for EVERY ship. In other words, I can add 20 engines to my ship, but the "Moves Left:" will show (for example) 34/5. The first time my ship moves it moves all 34 spaces, but after that, it's stuck at 5 spaces, or 5/5. This is driving me nuts - any ideas?


This my friend, as ridiculous as it sounds, is an "event feature". I ran into it today as well when I played my first and last big map.
The entire galaxy is stuck at 5pc FOR THE ENTIRE GAME. Suggestions by others on this forum is to reload an earlier save game which I call cheating and makes me loose interest in a game.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
No offense, but why is it always a problem when a Mega Event happens? That's the whole point of them, to change the gamne and make you have to change strategies. If you don't like them, turn them off. If you don't like that option, then stop playing and stop whining. This and pirates are always being complained about, get over it. Otherwise, stop playing and start programming your own game to play.

Thus ends my rant for tonight.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

No offense, but why is it always a problem when a Mega Event happens?


Here is why it is a problem, it is the perfect example of the poor documention accompanied by this game. The manual states:
When enabled, mega events are allowed. These are events that are intentionally designed to destabilize the game.
If it would have mentioned that star ship speed COULD be limited to 5pc on a big map I would have disabled it anyway since I planed to post my result to metaverse which gives penalty for long games. Something like that should not be enabled by default.


Otherwise, stop playing and start programming your own game to play.


Funny, that's what I did. I put the box back in the corner and started working on my own software again, not a game but a better documented, commercial software project.