Bugs -- Maybe?

FoW and Too Many Sponsors

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Number 1: Fog of War

Fog of War is hard to see. I don't know if it is due to a recent patch, or if I have messed with the settings:

It is difficult to tell the difference and I'd like to know what I have done to mess this up, or if it has to do with an update. I even started a new game to see if it made a difference, but it did not.

Number Two: Too Many Sponsors

The second problem involves Shipyard sponsors:

I colonized a planet that was within range of a Shipyard and it was immediately added as a sponsor, in spite of the fact that I had already used up the number of available sponsors. I am sure this was not intended by the programmers.

Thanks for any forthcoming help,

Richard

 

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Yeah the FOW seemed to change during the weekend. Great luck on the Shipyard sponsoring!

 

luceo non uro

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

It was the update to the 2.8 opt-in, they made "cosmetic change to the FOW color", see patch notes.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

'Cosmetic' HA HA. At least the eyestrain now limits my session length. A good anti-addiction measure.

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I remember reading about the 6 Shipyard Sponsors bug several months ago, at least.

I probably sound like a broken record at this point, but this is yet another endless example of something that should absolutely NEVER have happened in the first place, just from a simple programming perspective. I'm sorry but it reeks of never double-checking code, never testing things, never putting ANY thought into possible unintended consequences, and just plain bad programmers doing most of the grunt work. But of course the same people keep working on the game year after year I assume, so the bugs just... keep... happening...

A separate problem, of course, is the fact that it wasn't fixed within 3 to 7 days (at the absolute most) of being discovered, given how embarrassing it is. But then again this is a company whose leader talks about "diminishing returns", rather than how blatantly unacceptable it is that these kinds of things happen IN THE FIRST PLACE (let alone happen regularly and frequently). And now their idea of actually dealing with the bug issue was apparently to stop and spend 1 or 2 token patches focused on it, then go back to business-as-usual. So good luck ever getting this fixed. (It has commonly taken 6 months to 2 years, or never, on a lot of other fixes.)

I also don't recommend going anywhere near the upcoming expansion til a minimum of 3 months after it's first released; I would bet the farm on it being riddled with problems, sadly.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting courtneyme109, reply 1

Yeah the FOW seemed to change during the weekend. Great luck on the Shipyard sponsoring!

luceo non uro
End of courtneyme109's quote

Thanks, but the problem is that it is an exploitable bug. Abused properly, on a big map, you could set up six sponsors for many of your Shipyards. Maybe even more depending how badly this is broken (I've never tried for seven).

Richard