Deletion of Colony Bug.
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Hello,
I was posting stuff on the news group and I noticed a person at stardock
sugested to put bug reports on the forum. So here is a copy of what I put
on the news group as a reply to somebody who was seeing the same bug.
I still can reproduce it with the latest Nov 27 release. I am new here so I hope
you mind the introducion.
I was playing "The Corporate machine" recently after getting into the game
playing mood the last couple of months... Must be the winter mode or
something..
I happened to be surfing the net and found this new Galactic
Civ. game.. I was board and had been looking at other games with much
disinterest until I found this game.
Well I thought it would be fun to be a beta tester so here I am... I am a
computer engineer who is working in the embedded land. ( For example
toaster oven's with CPU's in them etc. ) So I have some knowlege of C/C++,
but I would consider myself a hack at best. So hopefully that will be a
useful trait as a beta tester. Then again maybe not... Ha.Ha.. One of my
dreams is to someday write my own games, if I could only come up with
something that hasn't already been done before. Plus get some energy to
actually go do it.
Anyway, enough rambling about myself... I have seen the same. I go to
delete a colony and after the next turn the game crashes. I suspect that
there is a dynamic data structure or a pointer to that structure that isn't
being cleaned out totaly, so when the turn is recycled the code goes to
access something that isn't there anymore and Window's memory manager gets
miffed and kills the program.. But that is only a educated guess at this
point. I don't claim to be a professional C++ coder either...
I am running Win 2000 pro and I don't seem to get the 10 sec of waiting
before it crashes, it is immediately after the next turn. I don't know if
your computer is just slow, low on memory, or different OS's act
differently to this bug.
In addition I would suggest adding a window after pressing delete colony
asking you if you are sure you want to delete the colony. I got trigger happy
once and ended up deleting all my colonies. What a bummer.
Adriano Tassini wrote:
> I was playing with Tinny size when I decided to destroy one colony. Next
> time I pressed "Turn" button, after about 10 seconds thinking, the game
> crashed returning to the desktop without any better explanation....
I was posting stuff on the news group and I noticed a person at stardock
sugested to put bug reports on the forum. So here is a copy of what I put
on the news group as a reply to somebody who was seeing the same bug.
I still can reproduce it with the latest Nov 27 release. I am new here so I hope
you mind the introducion.
I was playing "The Corporate machine" recently after getting into the game
playing mood the last couple of months... Must be the winter mode or
something..
I happened to be surfing the net and found this new GalacticCiv. game.. I was board and had been looking at other games with much
disinterest until I found this game.
Well I thought it would be fun to be a beta tester so here I am... I am a
computer engineer who is working in the embedded land. ( For example
toaster oven's with CPU's in them etc. ) So I have some knowlege of C/C++,
but I would consider myself a hack at best. So hopefully that will be a
useful trait as a beta tester. Then again maybe not... Ha.Ha.. One of my
dreams is to someday write my own games, if I could only come up with
something that hasn't already been done before. Plus get some energy to
actually go do it.
Anyway, enough rambling about myself... I have seen the same. I go to
delete a colony and after the next turn the game crashes. I suspect that
there is a dynamic data structure or a pointer to that structure that isn't
being cleaned out totaly, so when the turn is recycled the code goes to
access something that isn't there anymore and Window's memory manager gets
miffed and kills the program.. But that is only a educated guess at this
point. I don't claim to be a professional C++ coder either...
I am running Win 2000 pro and I don't seem to get the 10 sec of waiting
before it crashes, it is immediately after the next turn. I don't know if
your computer is just slow, low on memory, or different OS's act
differently to this bug.
In addition I would suggest adding a window after pressing delete colony
asking you if you are sure you want to delete the colony. I got trigger happy
once and ended up deleting all my colonies. What a bummer.
Adriano Tassini wrote:
> I was playing with Tinny size when I decided to destroy one colony. Next
> time I pressed "Turn" button, after about 10 seconds thinking, the game
> crashed returning to the desktop without any better explanation....