Unbuildable resource after starbase destroyed bug again

Yes, if you still can't build there after re-loading the save game, e-mail it to me, [email protected]

The last time someone e-mailed me save games, and I think they even had a before and after one, we had changed something with the save games so I couldn't load it.

I'd abandoned the game because it was going nowhere, but I was able to restore it from the autosave and still couldn't build. I sent another constructor to it and it just fails to make that last move over the resource, then it eventually falls out of autopilot. I saved it with a name and just reloaded it to make sure I still couldn't build. An odd thing happened: After I selected that game to reload, it CTD'd. So I loaded SmartException and tried again and it loaded fine.

Anyway, it is a resource near the lower left-hand corner of human space.

I am zipping and mailing now.

-Robert

Hey Cari, while you're checking that out, look for missing starships on the Diplomacy screens if that isn't something you already know about.

-Robert

Jotun,

Are you at war with the race you are talking to when the diplomacy screen fails to display ships?

I'm afraid I didn't notice that and the game is gone now. Is that expected behavior?

Cari says she fixed the resource problem. I hadn't run into that for so long I thought it was gone.

-Robert

"Cari says she fixed the resource problem"

Yeah! This is one that has been around for a while but has been hard to pin down because it didn't happen all the time.

What are the circumstances of the missing ships?

No ships will appear if you're at war with the other race or if it's a minor race.

No constructors will appear in the list.

Cari-thank you for inquiring.

I was certainly at war with various races and that is probably part of what I was seeing, it's just something I'd never noticed before.

Not seeing the ships of minor races was probably what I was noticing. I wasn't aware of that restriction. I imagine it is stop us buying up all their colony ships?

-Robert

Yep, and transports, and stuff. The minor races never have very many planets, and they can't mass produce ships like major races can, so it's easy to cripple them if you trade them lots of techs and stuff for their ships.

That makes sense.

-Robert

I lost a resouce on 5B after destroying a rival's star base and over 20 constructors he had stacked on it. In fact, I had to destroy the star base twice (the AI used some of the stacked constructors to rebuild the first star base I destroyed). After I elliminated the last constructor, the resouce was not there. I could not get it to re-appear by any means (Ctrl-R, reload, moving constructors or Avatars onto the tile, etc.).

Hmm...so this is a slightly different issue, that of a disappearing resource

I've seen the dissapearing resource problem on 5C as well, just no save from beforehand.

Paul.