"Ships in orbit" shield disappears occasionally.

February 22, 2002 8:28 PM from

This build seems to have made an improvement on previous builds on this problem but it
still shows up once in a while. Moving a ship out of orbit and back into orbit restores
the shield.

Cheers,
Jack

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Reply #1 February 25, 2002 2:16 PM from

Stardock Forums Top

I've noticed that myself, but I'm not really sure where the breakdown in the system is...it checks the defense status every time a ship enters or leaves orbits (which includes ships in orbit being attacked).

Reply #2 February 25, 2002 4:24 PM from

Stardock Forums Top

There has to be some other explanation for it. The shield shows up when a ship is built or enters
orbit. It disappears when the last ship leaves orbit. But with no change in the planet's defensive
status the shield will occasionally disappear.

I would be willing to run an altered copy of GalCiv.exe that includes a check of all planets'
defensive status, reports a mismatch between ships in orbit and defensive status, and terminates.
Perhaps by stopping it at just the right point further diagnostic information (debug, traces,
etc.) will be available to assist it tracking this down.

If you would like to leave this particular problem to a later date, let me know when you get back
to it and have an idea of what you may wish to do to track this down.

Cheers,
Jack

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