Trap 5 colonizing class 26 planet with lots of Morale/planet class resources.

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I have three or four of the yellow resources (morale + Planet Class increase) and tried to colonize a class 26 planet. This gave me an access violation, from which SE gave me:

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Stardock SmartException Logging Information
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OS Version : Windows ME
Video Card : NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS/GeForce2 Pro (IBM)
Application Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION
Crash Addr: 00450CCF 01:0004FCCF E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE

Processor Registers (x86):
EAX:00000000
EBX:836E2D70
ECX:00000000
EDX:3F800000
ESI:836E2C90
EDI:00000B44
CS:EIP:0187:00450CCF
SS:ESP:018F:00D2EE54 EBP:00D2EEA4
DS:018F ES:018F FS:1A3F GS:0000
Flags:00010206


Current Application Call Stack:

Addr Frame Logical addr Module Name
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00450CCF 00D2EEA4 0001:0004FCCF E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00511151 00D2EF04 0001:00110151 E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00479A98 00D2F0A0 0001:00078A98 E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00472D21 00D2F100 0001:00071D21 E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
004731D8 00D2F1D0 0001:000721D8 E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00472E27 00D2F238 0001:00071E27 E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
004EFCDC 00D2F2B4 0001:000EECDC E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00501A46 00D2F31C 0001:00100A46 E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
0045006D 00D2F3A4 0001:0004F06D E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
004EFCDC 00D2F420 0001:000EECDC E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00500B6B 00D2F498 0001:000FFB6B E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
004F46CC 00D2F518 0001:000F36CC E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00500ACF 00D2F58C 0001:000FFACF E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
004F46CC 00D2F60C 0001:000F36CC E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00500ACF 00D2F680 0001:000FFACF E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
004F46CC 00D2F700 0001:000F36CC E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00500ACF 00D2F774 0001:000FFACF E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
004F46CC 00D2F7F4 0001:000F36CC E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00500ACF 00D2F868 0001:000FFACF E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
004F46CC 00D2F8E8 0001:000F36CC E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00500ACF 00D2F95C 0001:000FFACF E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
004F46CC 00D2F9DC 0001:000F36CC E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00500ACF 00D2FA50 0001:000FFACF E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
004F46CC 00D2FAD0 0001:000F36CC E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00500ACF 00D2FB44 0001:000FFACF E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00524DBD 00D2FBC4 0001:00123DBD E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
BAABD70D 00D2FBF0 0001:0001C70D C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\DDRAW.DLL
BFF63613 00D2FC10 0001:00002613 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KERNEL32.DLL
BFF848F7 00D2FC24 0002:0001B8F7 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KERNEL32.DLL


Debug information for each stardock app follows ....

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I have copied the current save game and debug file and I am going to check now to see how repeatable it is.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Restarting the game got me passed this bug. I am sending the saved game and data to Cari.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
I don't think the planet class had anything to do with it. While I was experimentiong with beta 3, I had Earth up to class 190 without any noticable problems (the first thing I did when I started working on was to duplicate some of the files to see if the game had any hardcoded limits in various areas. The only one I found was the expected limit on costs of max signed int [2,147,483,648], although I'd be surprised if planet class wasn't an unsigned byte [max 255]).
Sins of a Solar Empire II
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Nathan Hogue (AKA Arturus Magi),

Send me your E-mail address ([email protected]). I want to converse with you privately.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
how did you get your planet class up to 190?
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
My guess would be that he had starbases on several of the +morale +planet resources with all the additional mining improvements. In a gigantic map and finding 5 of those resources, he would already be at +450%. Though if the bonuses are compounding this would easily be much higher.
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
'how did you get your planet class up to 190?'

In that particular case, it was while I was duplicating and making minor alterations to the tech and improvement definitions. Multiple +50%s from duplicated Terraforming improvements.

In my last game, though, I did get Earth up to 100-something without the duplicated improvements via the 'morale' resources, although that itself may have been a bug, because Earth started at class 34, IIRC.