Full Version Bug List

[Tampa_Gamer]

Great Game so far - been playing non-stop (well almost) since 5pm Friday. So far I have noticed the following bugs/features. If it is a new bug, I will forward a saved game to MM.

(1) Fighter and satellite Groups seems to be a little too fragile (one meson bLaster lv 1 took out entire flight of 10??)

(2) Computer weapon platforms containing lv 2 plasma missile firing every turn instead of every other turn (good thing I had some Aegis cruisers around!)

(3) Having similar problems with music as everyone else, except mine hasn't kicked in yet even though I switch it on several hours ago.

(4) One computer missile lv 1 took out 15 weapon platforms on one of my planets. This may be related to a unit damage problem also referenced in 1 above.

(5) My urban pacification centers lv 1 do not seem to have any effect.

As far as gameplay goes, seems to combine some of the best elements of SMAC, MOO, IG2, et al. Well done!

[This message has been edited by Tampa_Gamer (edited 12 November 2000).]

[Psitticine]

1 and 4 are related to a known bug I hope they've got fixed in 1.05 or whatever they're running now. Certainly in time for the upcoming patch, in any case.

In a nutshell, if units lack shielding, the whole stack is bLasted when the first one goes. If they do have shielding, then things go as they should.

For #2, yeah, sounds like a bug! Are you sure though that the same plasma missile launcher is being fired? IOW, could they be firing half every turn instead of all every other turn?

[James Sterrett]

This seems like a good place for a feature request....

SEIV crashes on me periodically; I'm not sure it's entirely its fault (other things happen on this machine; it's our the internet connection machine for our home LAN, among other things). However, when it does, I find that the "resume game" feature always sets me back a number of turns.... to my Last savegame.

Feature Request: Give me to option to tell the game to save the game to a file (autosave.gam?) every time I hit the "end of turn" button. Resume Game should point to this file if this option is active.

This wouldn't be useful often - but I've had the game crash twice in ~24 hours of play, and it's a pain when it does. MoO2 had a similar tendency to crash on odd occasions, but its autosave feature made pretty painless.

[Tampa_Gamer]

James - the feature is already built in. When you start the game there is an option under "Game Mechanics" to choose the frequency of auto-save games. One of the options is every turn.

[Lupusman]

There in an autosave. You can choose how often you want it to save, every ten turns to every turn. It's in the setup before you start.

[Tampa_Gamer]

OK. I have conducted some additional research regarding (5) below (disregard #2, since I think they were firing half every turn - smart on the AIs part!). The Urban Pacification Centers ("UPC") seem to have a positive attribute modifier of 1,2 and 3 depending on the level. However, in the happiness .txt file, "good events" are actually denoted by negative numbers (I assume in order to decrease the anger level). I guess my question is whether or not the UPC modifiers should actually be expressed as -1, -2, and -3 instead. Alternatively, I was playing a neutral race and they appear to have very few "happy" events and a lot of "anger" events.

[James Sterrett]

<sigh> Yet another thing I missed. 8/

Thanks for taking the time to point it out, guys! 8)