Next Patch?

[Tomgs]

I started getting range check errors also. I had seen a comment in one of the forums that after a race was used too many times it could cause this. I got the error on starting the games about 45% into the player placement phase. I had my systems set at 200 I toned it down to 150 but I still got the error at every start up. So I deleted that saved race and all my saved games and so far it hasn't happened again. All my other saved races seem to work fine but even saving the "bad" race under another file name didn't correct the problem. I had played at least 6 or 7 games using that race before with no problems. And I hadn't saved it again since the first time I created it, just reused the same starting file because of the bug that causes all the planets to show as colonizable if you have ships from the saved empire that can colonize them even if you can't build the ships because you have innsuficient technology.

I wish that would change because I would like to see if a high experience point total does give you bonuses. Also and maybe this is one of the bonuses I have seen that sometimes I get a much higher population growth rate for similar planets in different games even with the same saved empire. I always take the 10% bonus to population growth and most games I get around 35%-37% growth with a jubilent population but sometimes I get as high as 45% even on unpleasant worlds.