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Hi,
It's been a while since I stopped by, WOW fantastic progress. Sorry Xbox and Age Of Mythology took me away.
Anyway here are a list of points from the revised build (one that corrected the Governor issue)
1) During Turn sequence if you are asked a question, upgrade starbase or colonize planet, the dialog box remains on the screen with no real indication that it accepted your answer, until either the turn sequence finishes or you are asked another question.
2)If you click a button, Turn, Find, or Done etc in dialog boxes but don't release the mouse until you've changed focus becuase you didn't want to do that after all, the button remains depressed or highlighted. A little strange to then click a button that is already depressed when you actually want to do it.
3) Spelling and Grammar errors in the Senate results
4) Mining resources the Nano upgrade Says it will Double extraction but the text above only says 20% increase
5) Military Governor
- No option for build nothing!
- Ships to build are not alphabetical
- Ships to build sliders either don't work or the list doesn't contain everything. In my game the sliders appeared but when clicking they disappeared and Constructor wasn't listed before or after.
6) Stats - the overall Ranking numbers were always 0 throughout the game
7) Graphs - What is the Y axis?? It isn't total because my treasury, morale, foreign relations were always around 0. It also doesn't seem to be increase per month as my treasury graph never reflected increases of 1800 per month either
8) Sentry button, If you have multiple freighters you just want to sentry, you sentry the first one, focus moves to the next one but you then have 3 (THREE) clicks to sentry it, one to clear the popup text of sentry, (remember mouse is over the sentry button during focus change), one that appears to do nothing, and finally one to Sentry it. (Appears to work correctly if auto-ship-finder moves to another freighter.)
9) Research - Came across more than one item that said available Next Month, only next month it said the same again. Went on for a number of turns before I realized I wasn't getting any research reports. Morphing was one and Xeno something may well have been another.
10) Constructors stop short of the starbase they were sent to upgrade. Seems to happen when multiple Constructors are sent to the same starbase on auto-pilot. The first one there seems to send out a message to the other constructors in the area, "i got here first" and any others destined for the same starbase come off auto-pilot. Usually when they have enough move points to reach the starbase. Pretty weird.
11) I upgraded several starbases, one to a terror star and noticed that the Attack points said 0+14 before the upgrade and then after the upgrade 0. Which is it?? 0+14 or 0? I had all ship attack items and defense items
12) Talking of Terror Stars....whats up with the lack of a Sentry button?? All you get is a Disband button. A major pain when it keeps demanding to be the focus after dealing with each ship you have.
13) I suffered several crashes during my marathon game. Finally ran into a show stopper, repeat crash. Always during Turn end sequence. Latest repeatable one, seemed to occur during multiple planet defections...to my side.
14) When Loading a saved game from inside the game, there is no progress bar. (Makes you thing the game froze)
15) I also lost the ability to move ships on two occasions. I had to exit and restart to restore control. Seems to happen immediately after a UP vote. The ship control buttons sentry button + next one down appear to the left over the picture of the officer.
You may already know about all these given I've been out for so long but there you go.
Cheers,
Dominic
It's been a while since I stopped by, WOW fantastic progress. Sorry Xbox and Age Of Mythology took me away.
Anyway here are a list of points from the revised build (one that corrected the Governor issue)
1) During Turn sequence if you are asked a question, upgrade starbase or colonize planet, the dialog box remains on the screen with no real indication that it accepted your answer, until either the turn sequence finishes or you are asked another question.
2)If you click a button, Turn, Find, or Done etc in dialog boxes but don't release the mouse until you've changed focus becuase you didn't want to do that after all, the button remains depressed or highlighted. A little strange to then click a button that is already depressed when you actually want to do it.
3) Spelling and Grammar errors in the Senate results
4) Mining resources the Nano upgrade Says it will Double extraction but the text above only says 20% increase
5) Military Governor
- No option for build nothing!
- Ships to build are not alphabetical
- Ships to build sliders either don't work or the list doesn't contain everything. In my game the sliders appeared but when clicking they disappeared and Constructor wasn't listed before or after.
6) Stats - the overall Ranking numbers were always 0 throughout the game
7) Graphs - What is the Y axis?? It isn't total because my treasury, morale, foreign relations were always around 0. It also doesn't seem to be increase per month as my treasury graph never reflected increases of 1800 per month either
8) Sentry button, If you have multiple freighters you just want to sentry, you sentry the first one, focus moves to the next one but you then have 3 (THREE) clicks to sentry it, one to clear the popup text of sentry, (remember mouse is over the sentry button during focus change), one that appears to do nothing, and finally one to Sentry it. (Appears to work correctly if auto-ship-finder moves to another freighter.)
9) Research - Came across more than one item that said available Next Month, only next month it said the same again. Went on for a number of turns before I realized I wasn't getting any research reports. Morphing was one and Xeno something may well have been another.
10) Constructors stop short of the starbase they were sent to upgrade. Seems to happen when multiple Constructors are sent to the same starbase on auto-pilot. The first one there seems to send out a message to the other constructors in the area, "i got here first" and any others destined for the same starbase come off auto-pilot. Usually when they have enough move points to reach the starbase. Pretty weird.
11) I upgraded several starbases, one to a terror star and noticed that the Attack points said 0+14 before the upgrade and then after the upgrade 0. Which is it?? 0+14 or 0? I had all ship attack items and defense items
12) Talking of Terror Stars....whats up with the lack of a Sentry button?? All you get is a Disband button. A major pain when it keeps demanding to be the focus after dealing with each ship you have.
13) I suffered several crashes during my marathon game. Finally ran into a show stopper, repeat crash. Always during Turn end sequence. Latest repeatable one, seemed to occur during multiple planet defections...to my side.
14) When Loading a saved game from inside the game, there is no progress bar. (Makes you thing the game froze)
15) I also lost the ability to move ships on two occasions. I had to exit and restart to restore control. Seems to happen immediately after a UP vote. The ship control buttons sentry button + next one down appear to the left over the picture of the officer.
You may already know about all these given I've been out for so long but there you go.
Cheers,
Dominic