I really like it too, but why wasn't it there when I reloaded? And it doesn't always stay in your sensor memory, because a few turns after I reloaded I found the starbase again and attacked it, losing the ship, and it dissapeared from the minimap because I didn't have a ship in range anymore. A really nice feature, but it's buggy.

~SDC~

I have updated from 1.13 to 1.2 and I have made a lots of copy and paste inth the files in order to play a french version. And I have found some strange things:
- some files appear to have been generated in a strange way: the end of the file was repeated
- I have experience lots of CTD. When I look in the debug.err, I found that lots of files have parsing problems. The funny thing was that I fixed the first file, reload Galciv and no more CTD. Looks like when a file has parsing problems, the game can't parse correct files that are loaded next. I am also wondering if some people are experiencing lots of CTD due to this point and the above mentionned
- when copying and pasting, I found some inconsistencies with monster.ship. Maybe it is my configuration but the Impossible tech was 999 and in the monster.ship, the tech_requirement_id was 199. Perharps, it would be better if the tech_requirement keyword was used instead of the tech__requirement_id keyword.
- In some files, there is the tech_requirement_id keyword instead of the tech_requirement keyword. Too bad, I haven't noted the corresponding files

Resource starbases are always visible on the mini-map. This is Working As Designed®. Other starbases remain visible if you've visually spotted them once. This, I think, is a bug, although it makes sense. Starbases have a tendancy not to move very much.



That was a temporary change to fix a bug introduced in 1.13.

~SDC~

What I have always found strange was to be able to know where un-mined ressources are once I have found them, but to have them dissapear in FOW when a starbase is created. On when the starbase is destroyed, the ressource come back and shine ine the FOW
I found it more consistent to always know where ressources are located when you have find them.

Understandable. But I find it strange that the version doesn't reset these kind of fix . It could have messed other things

Thanks! I knew I wasn't crazy! (Well, not because of this, anyway)

No, it's not. When I reloaded the saved game they dissapeared from the minimap. But they're still on the tactical map, so I can find them again if I look.

~SDC~

Ok, sometimes I can see them and sometimes I can't. I think it has to do with whether they were built in this session or in a previous session.

~SDC~

Just got a CTD when redoing all my military projects the same month.

~SDC~

I got a CTD but unfortunately not sure what caused it...

I noticed that if you DON'T select auto-launch ships, but still set a waypoint, the ship will be auto-launched anyway. Of course, I'm not sure why you'd want to have a way-point without auto-launch. I think if you unselect auto-launch it should probably clear the waypoint.

There was some other problem I can't remember now, I'll try to write them down as I find them now.

My games start out fine, but when I get so far it starts to crash to desktop repetedly.. In my games usually near the end when I am massacering with Terror Stars but soemtimes after lots of things.. but mostly after im into the game with lots of techs researched and stuff... in fact around dreadnaught time I believe is normall.

Mostly its just alot of crashing but I found something wierd this time..

I took over a Yor Planet, and it had a battle hammer qued up.. When it was created I went back to that planet and there was a Yor ship icon in 'orbit'. I looked at it again, removed it from orbit and it was a Yor ship that I controlled and can controll.. kinda wierd.

if these have been reported before please ignore:

1. summary screen - lots of zero's for other races, missing info and planet earths!
2. ctd - appear to be caused by ships blowing up - is there a new explosion?

The loading bar is actually only for when the screens are being created.  The first 8% or so is when the graphic files are being loaded in, and that's the longest part.  Have you added any mods?

Unless you archived 1.13, you can't restore it. Re-installing even 1.2 may help your problem, though.  First you could try re-installing your bink tools and checking to see that your sound drivers are up to date. 

http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm

Did you check to make sure that your music is still turned on? If user defined playlist is turned ON but there's no playlist selected, that will also turn off music.

Delete your old save game folders.  As long as the game detects them, it will think that they're old save games.

I've never seen this.  Can you send me your save game?

Do you mean the united planets? Does it seem to happen on any particular issue?  Is this a 1.19 or higher game?

Maybe you should try re-installing Gal Civ.  Something may have gotten messed up with your installation.

If any of the files are in your normal folders and not in the mods folder, those will still show up.  Also, if you turn off the mods and haven't restarted Gal Civ, that could also explain why not all the mods are being turned off.  And if it's the same game, you're going to have problems running without mods.   If you can reproduce it in a clean game with no mods, please tell me how, in detailed steps, to reproduce it.

If they're on resources, yes.

Ummm....I think that you have the version that has sound.  Check your movies directory. 

The french data files were very buggy, and installing the update on top of it makes it worse because not all of the files get updated.  You should probably get the clean data files from here:

http://www.joeuser.com/sdfiles/data%201.2.zip

and then do your translations.

 

 

 

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When I update from stardock central, are the old files replaced or did a merge occurs?
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When trying to build a Terror Star with a negative treasury you get a message saying that the UP has limited starbases to zero modules. And it's possible to build a Terror Star with less than 5000 bc in the treasury as long as it isn't negative. (Which may or may not be unintended.)

~SDC~

:notsure: Weird problem with my savegame on 1.20.86, just reloaded a new game on ths version and find i'm building stuff I havn't even researched yet ! cool, easy way to get ahead of the competition.

P.

~SDC~

That's probably from reloading the old save. I've noticed the same thing if I make changes to a mod (specifically adding more buildings), and then reload a game... I think it messes up the computer's list of what's available.

I have noticed another small bug with reloads though. In my last game (started in 1.20), I was at war with the Altarians for some time, yet whenever I reloaded during the war, the GNN robot told me that I was 'not at war with any major civilizations'. I imagine the Altarians were insulted.

The same summary screen also keeps telling me that I'm falling behind in tech, even though I seem to be pretty far ahead, although that's harder to judge.

When an alien civilization has the alliance tech then it shows themselves allied with themselves in the diplomacy screen.
For example, Torian Federation allied with Torian Federation.

If I follow all my autopilot ships, then I don't experience the slowdowns I was complaining about. Maybe because the computer calculates them one after another. If I don't follow them, they move all at once.

The alignment of a race is still screwed up. With an alignment of 61, I'm considered Saintly instead of Good. Can I fix this somewhere myself?

I don't know if this is a change but is it normal I can't trade constructors. I haven't noticed this in earlier versions because I didn't need to trade this but in this game I lost a spacerace to a resource with the altarians. When I wanted to trade the winning constructor for some techs, I noticed I couldn't trade.

Alien resource starbases don't show up in the fog of war. And the AI always builds two starbases, one on the resource and one next to the resource starbase. This is kind of stupid AI behaviour and they upgrade the base next to the resource instead of the resource starbase. This makes it even more stupid.

Is it normal I can't choose any race for a treaty of attack? For example I wanted to start a treaty of attack against the yor together with the altarians but I couldn't select the treaty of attack against the yor. My relation with the yor was "warm", maybe that has something to do with it. But I want to be able to start a treaty of attack with anyone, even if I have a "warm" relationship with that race.

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as a habit i tend to use the usual sequence of save files to get through a game. however, realised that saving over a pre 1.19 file is not a good idea. recommend for 1.2 to create new files ie delete ALL old files....otherwise you get corrupt data.

Some bugs I've found...

Saving over old save games does not seem to work well.. at least not if it was a 1.13 game.

Alien Civs don't seem to be affected by logistics cost... they seem to plop down starbases like nobodies business, sometimes several bases on a single resource. If it wasn't for the ability to park my constructor on a resource I would have been screwed in the resource department.

On my latest game I get a CTD for no apparent reason after pressing the TURN button. Seems to happen every time now.

The game seems pretty much broken now... I don't want to start another game just to get a CTD half way through it.

Why is my score going DOWN? I noticed that in the Tiny category, my score went from 84123 to 84116 for a game that had a score of 3570! I checked my records and found that my overall score has been going down also! I "peaked" at 123427 and now (4 games later) I have 119996 points. Two of those games were under 1.19 and the last two under 1.20. Is this a glitch or is there some logical explanation, or am I just going nuts? lol

Ken

The scores of your last four games are about half as high as your other recent games. It's not surprising that they're dragging your score down. Try searching the forum for some threads that explain how metaverse scores are calculated. http://www.galciv.com/forum.asp?BID=GF&id=120131#120431 http://www.galciv.com/forum.asp?BID=GF&id=80137 http://www.galciv.com/forum.asp?id=79883&BID=GF&page=1#80259
~SDC~
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Another goodie is when colonizing I found a yellow star with a 16 planet on. When I colonize the planet it changes to a 12 but the star stays yellow.

Never had any probs untill 1.2.

~SDC~

Take a look at this thread http://www.galciv.com/forum.asp?BID=GF&id=142016. There are some explanations about this behavior

CTD, select The Terraformer after requisite technology researched = CTD. Save from turn before & smartexception submitted.

Anyone else seen this?