A few minor bugs

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During a game I had my survey ship disappear. I could still move it and it still picked up anomolies but it just was not displayed on the screen.

At one point in the game everytime a ship was build large amounts of money where removed from my bank. This caused me to go very quickly negative. Even though I had a large cash flow (~400 a turn) a ship seemed to build just when I had got to about -350 and I would be at -800 again. I was in the middle of a war so it was very difficult to be more precise. I will try to record better details if it happends again.

Once I had the situation under control and had stopped all ship production the problem seemed to correct itself.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Is this on Beta 2?

The ship disappearing problem sounds very like the eyes of the universe problem in beta 1z. I believe this has been fixed though.

Never heard of the second problem.

Paul
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
The "eyes of the universe problem" is still present in Beta 2, at least it was in the version released on Friday.
Sins of a Solar Empire II
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Hitting Ctrl-R will force a refresh of the FOW, which should help you determine if it's a FOW bug. If it's not, it may be something wrong with the gfx file.

If you traded money to the AI at all, there was a bug where the money would be taken out twice because it defaulted to 1 month, which I was using as a 1 time deal. The person who coded tribute into the trading screen, however, interpreted it differently.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
'Never heard of the second problem.'

Something else that can cause that is if they're right on the balance point between having a positive or negative income. Once they drop below -500 bc, all forms of spending other than tributes and loan payments stop, so they would suddenly have a lagre positive income. As soon as they get back above that point, other forms of spending resume, resulting in the original deficit spending to reassert itself.

I accidentally put myself in that posistion the first game I played by buying a survey ship from my treasury on turn 3.
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
Did you check to see if you could get it back by hitting Ctrl-R, though? Although, reloading the saved game would also refresh the FOW.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
Reloading the game fixed the problem. I was unaware of the Ctrl-R option.
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
Well, that's good to know. :) Disappearing ships is never a good thing. I'm about to test some code that will hopefully banish the last of the FOW problems.