Missing Ship in Main Screen

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In my curent game the Starting SHip USS Hero is missing in the Main Screen I can select the USS Hero in the Ship Menu but in the Sector where it sould be ther is no ship :(. The bug wasnt reproducable with the save game.

debug.err:
Debug Message: ******* Starting Game Shell *******
Debug Message: Going Fullscreen
Debug Message: RGB in format 5:6:5, Masks reported as f800:7e0:1f
Debug Message: Now Fullscreen
Debug Message: Shell initialization complete
Debug Message: ***** Initializing Game *****
Debug Message: Timer Frequency is 0 1234dc
Debug Message: Added fonts: VerdanaWhite11 VerdanaWhite12B VerdanaYellow11 VerdanaLtBlue11 VerdanaGreen11
Debug Message: Added fonts: VerdanaRed11 VerdanaRed12 VerdanaYellow12 VerdanaOrange12 VerdanaLtBlue12
Debug Message: Added fonts: VerdanaDkBlue12 VerdanaLtBlue12B VerdanaOrange12B Verdana00Race11 Verdana01Race11
Debug Message: Added fonts: Verdana02Race11 Verdana03Race11 Verdana04Race11 Verdana05Race11 Verdana00Race12B
Debug Message: Added fonts: Verdana01Race12B Verdana02Race12B Verdana03Race12B Verdana04Race12B Verdana05Race12B
Debug Message: Added fonts: font2 font1 Comic10 Comic12 Comic12B
Debug Message: Added fonts: Comic14 Comic14B Comic16 Comic16B Comic18
Debug Message: Added fonts: Comic18B Celtic14 Celtic12 Celtic10 Basker14
Debug Message: Added fonts: Basker16 BabylonBlue11B BabylonBlue11 BabylonBlue10B ArialGreenB10
Debug Message: Added fonts: ArialYellowB12 ArialLtBlueB12 ArialDkBlueB12 ArialGreenB12 ArialRedB12
Debug Message: Added fonts: ArialWhite12B ArialWhite14 ArialWhite16 ArialOrange12B ArialLtBlue12B
Debug Message: Added fonts: ArialLtBlue14 ArialGreen14 ArialRed14 ArialYellow14 ArialGreen16
Debug Message: Added fonts: ArialYellow16 Arial13B Arial16B2 Arial10 Arial12
Debug Message: Added fonts: Arial12B Arial14 Arial14B Arial16 Arial16B
Debug Message: Added fonts: Arial18 Arial18B GaraWGold11B GaraBW14B GaraW11B
Debug Message: Initializing sound card.
Debug Message: Game Initialization completed.
Debug Message: Creating cutscene window.
Debug Message: Creating soundtrack handler.
Debug Message: Creating movie handler.
Debug Message: Create setup screens.
Debug Message: Creating opening menu.
Debug Message: Creating player setup screen.
Debug Message: Creating race setup screen.
Debug Message: Begin playing intro movie.
Debug Message: Initialize Tilemaps
Debug Message: Set mouse.
Debug Message: Set update timer.
Debug Message: Scanning sprites.
Debug Message: Scanning Models.
Debug Message: Scanning bitmaps.
Debug Message: Initializing Galaxy.
Debug Message: Begin creating other screens.
Debug Message: Initialize Game Options.
Debug Message: Make Ship Leave Orbit: Brad Version
Debug Message: Destroying ship ColonyShip 695. Orbiting: 0
Debug Message: Displaying News Event.
Debug Message: Displaying News Event.
Debug Message: Displaying News Event.
Debug Message: Displaying News Event.
Debug Message: Displaying News Event.
Debug Message: Make Ship Leave Orbit: Brad Version
Debug Message: Displaying News Event.
Debug Message: Make Ship Leave Orbit: Brad Version
Debug Message: Destroying ship USS ColonyShip 633. Orbiting: 0
Debug Message: Unable to find file Data\SaveGames\test\.
Debug Message: Unable to find file Data\SaveGames\test\..
Debug Message: No test files in current directory.
Debug Message: Make Ship Leave Orbit: Brad Version
Debug Message: Displaying News Event.
Debug Message: Make Ship Leave Orbit: Brad Version
Debug Message: Unable to find file Data\SaveGames\test\.
Debug Message: Unable to find file Data\SaveGames\test\..
Debug Message: No test files in current directory.
Debug Message: Make Ship Leave Orbit: Brad Version
Debug Message: Destroying ship ColonyShip 890. Orbiting: 0
Debug Message: Unable to find file Data\SaveGames\test\.
Debug Message: Unable to find file Data\SaveGames\test\..
Debug Message: No test files in current directory.
Debug Message: Unable to find file Data\SaveGames\PreviousAutoSave\.
Debug Message: Unable to find file Data\SaveGames\PreviousAutoSave\..
Debug Message: No Data\SaveGames\AutoSave\*.* files in current directory.
Debug Message: No AutoSave files in current directory.
Debug Message: Displaying News Event.
Debug Message: Displaying News Event.
Debug Message: Destroying ship USS ColonyShip 31. Orbiting: 0
Debug Message: Make Ship Leave Orbit: Brad Version
Debug Message: Make Ship Leave Orbit: Brad Version
Debug Message: Displaying News Event.
Debug Message: Displaying News Event.
Debug Message: Displaying News Event.
Debug Message: Make Ship Leave Orbit: Brad Version
Debug Message: Make Ship Leave Orbit: Brad Version
Debug Message: Destroying ship ColonyShip 538. Orbiting: 0
Debug Message: Destroying ship ColonyShip 578. Orbiting: 0
Debug Message: Make Ship Leave Orbit: Brad Version
Debug Message: Make Ship Leave Orbit: Brad Version
Debug Message: Unable to find file Data\SaveGames\test\.
Debug Message: Unable to find file Data\SaveGames\test\..
Debug Message: No test files in current directory.
Debug Message: Make Ship Leave Orbit: Brad Version
Debug Message: Displaying News Event.
Debug Message: Displaying News Event.
Debug Message: Displaying News Event.
Debug Message: Displaying News Event.
Debug Message: Displaying News Event.
Debug Message: Make Ship Leave Orbit: Brad Version
Debug Message: Unable to find file Data\SaveGames\test\.
Debug Message: Unable to find file Data\SaveGames\test\..
Debug Message: No test files in current directory.
Debug Message: Could not find animation titled Icon24Trans in model 0ecobase01 (PlayAnimation)
Debug Message: Could not find animation titled in model Icon (PlayAnimation)
Debug Message: Could not find animation titled in model Icon (PlayAnimation)
Debug Message: Could not find animation titled in model Icon (PlayAnimation)
Debug Message: Could not find animation titled in model Icon (PlayAnimation)
Debug Message: Could not find animation titled in model Icon (PlayAnimation)
Debug Message: Could not find animation titled in model Icon (PlayAnimation)
Debug Message: Could not find animation titled Icon in model 0ecobase01 (PlayAnimation)
Debug Message: Destroying ship ColonyShip 675. Orbiting: 0
Debug Message: Make Ship Leave Orbit: Brad Version
Debug Message: Displaying News Event.
Debug Message: Make Ship Leave Orbit: Brad Version
Debug Message: Unable to find file Data\SaveGames\test\.
Debug Message: Unable to find file Data\SaveGames\test\..
Debug Message: No test files in current directory.
Debug Message: Make Ship Leave Orbit: Brad Version
Debug Message: Attempt to play unregistered file
Debug Message: Displaying News Event.
Debug Message: Displaying News Event.
Debug Message: Displaying News Event.
*DEBUG ERROR: *** Unable to locate font Verdana07Race12B, FTDataManager::FindFont ***
*DEBUG ERROR: *** Unable to locate font Verdana07Race12B, FTDataManager::FindFont ***
Debug Message: Unable to find file Data\SaveGames\test\.
Debug Message: Unable to find file Data\SaveGames\test\..
Debug Message: No test files in current directory.
Debug Message: Make Ship Leave Orbit: Brad Version
Debug Message: Make Ship Leave Orbit: Brad Version
Debug Message: Make Ship Leave Orbit: Brad Version
Debug Message: Make Ship Leave Orbit: Brad Version
Debug Message: Displaying News Event.
Debug Message: Unable to find file Data\SaveGames\test\.
Debug Message: Unable to find file Data\SaveGames\test\..
Debug Message: No test files in current directory.
Debug Message: Posting WM_CLOSE message.
Debug Message: GameUninitialize start
Debug Message: GameUninitialize end
Debug Message: Main Shell terminating normally
Debug Message: MemMan: Unable to find pointer in GetBlockInfo. Memory system: Palette
ASSERT ERROR in file g:\projects\pear\source\memman.cpp at line 579.
Debug Message: MemMan: Trying to free memory that has not been allocated. Memory System Palette
ASSERT ERROR in file g:\projects\pear\source\memman.cpp at line 361.
Debug Message: MemMan: Unable to find pointer in GetBlockInfo. Memory system: Palette
ASSERT ERROR in file g:\projects\pear\source\memman.cpp at line 579.
Debug Message: MemMan: Trying to free memory that has not been allocated. Memory System Palette
ASSERT ERROR in file g:\projects\pear\source\memman.cpp at line 361.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
It's not in orbit or anything? When you select it on the ship list, do you see empty green brackets like the ship is there, but invisible? That would be some kind of problem with the gfx file.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Cari,

I don't know if this is related, but I had some ships "disappear" for one or two turns. The ship was selected if there were moves left, and I could move it (the "moves left" indicator decremented properly, but the ships were invisible. After a number of moves (about 6 or 8), the ships became visible again. At first, I thought it may have been the "monsters" Brad mentioned in one post, but the ships were there, just invisible.
Star Control: Origins
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Hmm, it may be related. As I said before, usually when ships go invisible, there's a problem with the gfx files, but this seems to be soemthing else. Do you have a save game where you can reproduce this?
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Did you try Ctrl-R? Beta 2 had a problem with the FOW and eyes-of-the-universe that sounds a lot like this problem (but I thought the EOU and FOW problem had been fixed).
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
There are still problems with the FOW, but I haven't figured out the exact conditions of what makes it occur. I did think, however, that there weren't problems with the EOU anymore. I've never seen it any of the times that I've tested it.

I do need a clarification from both of you: can you see the green selection brackets when the ship disappears?
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
I don't have a saved game, but I'll be on the lookout for the problem reoccurring. When the ships disappeared in my game, they totally disappeared. The green selection bracket was not there, even though it seemed to be moving normally. As a matter of fact, when one of the ships moved into an anomaly, I got the popup telling me that the ship can not explore anomalies. After a few moves, the ship reappeared. Hope this helps.
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
I had the same thing happen to me last night.

My scouts on the main map were moving (autopilot), disapeared, then reapeared again down the timeline. This was all of the scouts at once, no green brackets around any of them. Saving and restoring the game, did not reproduce the problem.

I also lost a research ship. It made it to the annomoly, then dissapeared, no green brackets. This was the only one of it's kind that dissapeared though. The 'Find' button would take me to the sector where the ship was supposed to be, but I could not select it by clicking anywhere on the main map. I finally saved the game and restarted and that made the ship 'visible' and selectable again.
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
What about Ctrl-R?

Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top
Sorry for the late responce but here a vew more data about what hapened:

The USS Hero was near a system from a minor race, wasnt moved this turn and also wasnt at autopilot.
It was early in the game this bug hapened and after I load it again (Saved after I recogniced the bug) the ship was back again so I couldent suport you with a save game :(.
Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top
Well, it's the FOW's fault. :) Looks like I'm going to have to take a look at it again.