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
A captured planet never appears in the planet list. After capturing a star if you colonize another planet in that system the colonized planet appears in the list but even that does not trigger the display of the captured planet. Cheers, Jack
I had a planet with a population of 10 (I just colonized it) with a morale of 59 that would not grow. After I increased its morale to 66 it grew every turn. I think the growth calculation is not allowing for decimal increases of population. I.E., if a population of 10 at a morale of 59 grows at 108% then 10*1.08 = 10.8. But the .8 gets lost and no growth is registered. Also, is there a limit to how big a population can grow? I had many class 20 planets with populations
The planet information panel that shows what projects are being built has an inconsistancy with how it displays the cost of the projects being worked on. It shows the total cost of a military project but shows the remaining cost of a social project. Personally I like seeing the remaining cost, but it should be consistant. Cheers, Jack
Would it be possible to have a ship on autopilot that comes within range of an event or anomoly drop out of autopilot? This would allow the player to decide whether to take or skip it. Cheers, Jack
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Windows ME on an IBM NetVista A40i with an AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Authentic AMD at 1002 Mhz. It has 128 MB of on board memory. The display is a NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS (IBM) that I am running at 1280*1024*true color. The sound card is a SoundMAS Integrated Digital Audio by Analog Devices, Inc. Cheers, Jack
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Attacking a star with an orbiting ship gives the same results as before this built: The attack does not cost a move for the attacking ship, it can attack continually as long as it doesn't have to expend all of its moves and there are ships to attack (I thing the OS/2 version allowed the same thing?), and a transport can not capture the star until the next turn (also the same as in previous builds). Cheers, Jack
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Nah. They were stormies in disguise. Just because they might get to a system before I do doesn't make them civilians. Cheers, Jack
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Cari, Yep. Why not? We were at war. It might have been after a system I wanted. Cheers, Jack
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Got it! This is happening because manually moving ships is not working write. I built a starfighter and used it to attack a colony ship. The starfighter moved into the tile of the colony ship and THEN the colony ship exploded. Prior to this build the attacking ship would only attack the other ship and not move. Now it is moving before it is checking for any interference to the move. Cheers, Jack
I only got this once, but I wanted to record the event, just in case someone else gets it. I don't know how to capture error data on this one. I pushed the "play" button on the DGM and got the blank screen of death. I let it sit there for a couple of minutes before trying to get any responses from it. Nothing worked. I tried CTRL-ESC and CAD - nothing. Only the 10second BRS would work, which of course powered down my system and let me get a power on startup with the disk
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Then hopefully Cari or someone at Stardock can read greek. Cheers, Jack
The autosave data allowed me to recreate the trap 5 three times in succession. Cari, if you have any trouble recreating this problem let me know. I have the autosave preserved. Cheers, Jack
I just got this. The USS Hummingbird started in the orbit of Sol (the first time I have ever seen it start there). It appeared on the ship list. When I told it to leave orbit it vanished, but was still in the ship list and clicking on it in the ship list showed it in the space for the currently selected ship. Since it was still invisible, I had no way of knowing where it was, so I right clicked the tile adjacent to and NE of Sol. I got a trap 5 with the following exception dat
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j, I already reported that in another thread (load gets trap 5 at ....). Cari gave one bypass in that thread, but I find it does not alway get past the problem. Cheers, Jack
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Sometimes I want to declare war on a "friend" by attacking that race's ship (a sneak attack). How do we do this if friendly ships can occupy the same tile? Chees, Jack
How far along is the load feature. Should we be pulling out all the stops in testing? Did I try something you are not ready for yet? I renamed the "test" subdirectory and the "test" file in the saved games subdirectory to "test1" and then tried to "load" from the main menu. It gave me a tech window without any techs to research instead of telling me there was no saved game to load. Cheers, Jack
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Didn't happen that way on the OS/2 versions. Nor on any other strategy game, board or PC, that I have ever played. Also, I have not gotten to where I could try it with attack ships, so I have to wonder about them. I am trying to get there now, but am having trouble re-loading the game (load crashes at ..... thread). I may have to start a new game tomorrow morning. Cheers, Jack
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Cari, I deleted Event.civ0 through Event.civ5 in the subdirectory "test" which is, I believe the directory used for the Save and Load functions. Right? It still blows up. Here is the latest SE data: -------- OS Version : Windows ME Video Card : NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS (IBM) Application Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION Crash Addr: 004D8994 01:000D7994 E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE Processor Registers (x86): EAX:00D86220 EBX:838F0DB
I like the ship/planet select and ship destination mouse arrangement better than before. Cheers, Jack
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jlegere, Yes in the same sector, but ship moves from tile to tile onw move at a time. A sector is 12 tiles by 12 tiles. (I asked Cari what to call tiles a long time ago.) Previous behavior of GalCiv is that ships from differing races could not occupy the same tile. Do you think this should be changed? Cheers, Jack
I tried to block another race's colony ship with my USS Mockingbird just to see what would happen. The colony ship didn't even seem to notice that my ship was there. Then I moved off and back onto the same tile with the other guy's colony ship. No error messages, to attacks, no blockage, nothing except ships from two races occupying the same tile. Cheers, Jack
I knew you would. When testing we have a tendency to forget how nice it is to offer a back pat now and then. :) Cheers, Jack
Yup. I am on the west coast. I downloaded the game last night. Went to bed at 11:00 pm PST. Then started my testing this morning at about 9:30 PST. I just test fast. Cheers, Jack
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The debug file I sent to Brad had lots of error notes about storage errors, "ASSERT ERROR"s for some file on a "G:" drive (which does not exist on my system), and "Not all child windows deleted" messages. Would any of this data in the debug file be useful in solving this? I have preserved a copy of this file and can send it to you for your use when you get around to this problem. Cheers, Jack