Ancient Survey Module Issue Under 1.61.457813

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The Ancient Survey Module (first screen snapshot below) says that it allows you to give any ship the ability to survey anomalies.  However, what it doesn't say is that the ship will lose that ability after some number of turns.

The second screen snapshot below shows that I have given the ship named The Lash the ability to survey anomalies on turn 89.

However, the third screen snapshot below shows that the ship has lost the ability to survey anomalies sometime on or before turn 122 (I am not sure exactly which turn it lost it on).

If the intent is that the ship will lose the ability to survey anomalies after some number of turns, then you should say so in the description of what the module does and there should be some kind of countdown visible in the ship description.  If you did not intend for the ship to lose the ability to survey anomalies, then you have another bug to fix. |-)  

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Reply #1 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

Thanks this definitely seems more like a bug than miscommunication

 

Reply #2 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

Did you save the game before turn 122 then load the save?  Starting with version 1.61, the Ancient Survey Module gets deleted when loading a save.  If the ship is surveying when the save is made, it will continue the survey after the save is loaded.  When the survey is finished, it will be recognized that the survey ability no longer exists, and the ship will not be able to start a new survey.

I put in a bug report on Discord about this and included a save with instructions on how to reproduce it.  A developer asked if this game was started before 1.61.  I replied it wasn't.  They are looking at it.

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Reply #3 from Stardock.net Forums Top

I just noticed this, I started a game late last night and when I resumed it this morning I got notifications from all my ships that they can't survey now, I loaded the two auto saves and they don't have the module on it there either.