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Autopilot of ship lost if another ship colonizes a planet in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Since I only had one ship on autopilot I can not say whether others would loose autopilot as well. The only ship types I had on autopilot when this happened were colony ships and defenders. It happened to both types. Cheers, Jack

Do these shutdown message indicate a storage leak? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I see the following debug messages in the debug file (Build from yesterday): ---------------------- 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 memor

GalCiv never sleeps? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Is it possible that GalCiv does not detect wshen it has been put into the background? Try this. Open the GalCiv folder so you can see the debug file (It may not exist if you have never played a game). Start CalCiv. After a couple of turns go to the OS desktop (CTRL-Esc). Refresh the GalCiv folder if necessary to show the icon for the debug file. Left click _once_ on the debug file and the file's size shows up on the left side of the window. Wait a few seconds, refresh

Reply to Autoturn fails if last ship attacks a planet. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Same behavior after attacking a ship.

Autoturn fails if last ship attacks a planet. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

After attacking a planet with a star fighter the ship still had a move left (normal?). After moving the ship it showed still selected with 0 moves. TAB and FIND did not find another ship to move (there were two others not in orbit), so I assume all of the ships had moved this turn. This is inconsistant with anything else I have ssen, but perhaps this is a good thing. It allows one to decide whether or not one wishes to change any destinations given to other ships. But... C

Reply to No switch to next ship after colonizing a planet. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Well, at first blush it looked like it was fixed. The behavior did change, Now, however, if there is more than one ship left pressing a direction key does nothing. Pressing the TAB key leaves it in the same unmovalbe state. Only pressing the find key allows you to move the ship. Cheers, Jack

Need "center on currently selected ship" in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

An accelerator key (perhaps "c" for center) is most desirable. I am often going off to another part of the galaxy, putting the current ship off screen, and investigating something. Getting back to the selected ship gets more frustrating with each increase of galaxy size. If it is later in the plan, could you move it up in the plan? Please? Thanks, Jack

Reply to No switch to next ship after colonizing a planet. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

This appears to be fixed in yesterday's build.

Reply to ship range in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

There was such a feature in the OS/2 GalCiv that was an option one could turn on or off, but it did not appear in the original 1.0 release. I liked this feature and hope it shows up shortly before this version is completed. Cheers, Jack

Reply to How do I get this @#$(*& windows into debug mode? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I am using Windows ME. Someone told me how to get a screen shot, but I have been unable to get the "print screen" key to do anything. Also, I thought I saw somehting somewhere some time back when hacking around on my OS that allowed me to turn on or off some of the special keys, such as the "pring screen" key. Thanks, Jack

How do I get this @#$(*& windows into debug mode? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I remember seeing a setting that allows one to tell Windows what to do with the abend information from applications. It seems the options were to display or file the crash data or ignore it. Does anyone know of this and where to find it? I also think I have the "print screen" option turned off. I would like pointers to the controls to this as well. Thanks, Jack

Reply to When will the "save" and "load" options be available? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

We have great faith in you Cari. We know you can do it with ease. Cheers, Jack

Reply to Inconsistant behavior when attacking ships. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I'll try it again to get something from the debug file. Also note: this is with a large number of ships. I have noticed that there is a lot of strange behavior that starts when the number of ships gets large. Cheers, Jack

When will the "save" and "load" options be available? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

My testing is now to the point where I need to be able to save and restart a game. (I do not leave my OS up overnight because I am so untrustful of the OS). Also, isn't the ability to save and load games an important subject of alpha testing? Cheers, Jack

Game terminates in restart sequence in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Start the GalCiv applications (from the DGM). Select "start new civilization". Press "done" on the setup screen. Select a tech to researd and press "done" (this is just to get the tech screen out of the way). Press escape to bring up the menu that includes the "autoturn", "autobuild", "return to menu" and "continue" actions (did I miss one?). Click on "return to main menu", which takes you to the first screen with the "start new civilization" and "quit" buttons. Press the

Automatic selection of ships fails with a large number of ships in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I must have had well over 50 ships when this started happening. I was using a "large" galaxy at the time. I had them all on manual because they had suddenly (again) developed a mind of their own and started heading to a single point (all but those in orbit) (subject of another thread already active). I also had autoturn turned off. After moving a few ships the program did not select the next unmoved ship. I am not sure what would have happened if I had pushed the "tur

No switch to next ship after colonizing a planet. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Try this: from the start of the game, with autoturn on. Do not build any new ships so that you only have the original two. Find and colonize another planet. Suddenly the automatic selection of the next (now the only) ship fails and the TAB key does not select the ship. The Find button does select the ship and I suspect that right clicking on it will also select the ship. I have tried this several times now on the three smallest sizes of galaxies, and the failure is very <br

Reply to Stars visible in miniscreen in unexplored sectors in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Cari, Please hold off on this one until I examine it some more. I am beginning to see more of what you have been saying and am wondering if I have been missunderstanding what I have been seeing. I will let you know what I find. Thanks, Jack

Reply to War and Peace in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Alex, Perhaps we could be of more help if we had a link to a screen shot so we could understand better what you are looking for. With the dialogue so far on this thread I feel like I am trying to help with insufficent data. Cheers, Jack

Reply to Stars visible in miniscreen in unexplored sectors in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Cari, I just tried a tiny galaxy and this one shows stars in adjacent sectors as you expected, just N, S, E, and W. This is understandable for a galaxy that is only 3X3 sectors and you might want to keep some of the galaxy information hidden for a while. But is what I saw an inconsistancy for larger galaxies? Certainly a diagonal is still only one sector away, so it seems likely that knowing there are stars there would be consistant with the intent, but insn't bei

Reply to Stars visible in miniscreen in unexplored sectors in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Just tried a large galaxy, and it is only showing stars in secters adjacent to explored sectors, not the next two. I will check the medium and small galaxies again tomorrow. Cheers, Jack

FOW (fog of war) seems erratic - does not always fog over when it should. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Subject says it all. Sending ships in crossing and overlapping routes leaves spots, sections, or complete paths where the fog does not return. Cheers, Jack

Transport can not take a system in the same turn that the defenses were distroyed. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I don't understand why a transport can't take a star system in the same turn that the system's defenses are destroyed. Is it intended to be this way? Shouldn't a star be takable immediately upon loosing all of its ships in orbit if you have a transport ready and waiting (with a move still available)? Cheers, Jack

Inconsistant behavior when attacking ships. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I ran into this on a medium size galaxy. I am not sure it can be reproduced on one where you can't build 40+ ships (actually, I had about twice this much when this started happening). Almost always when one ship attacks another and wins it remains in its spot (it does not move into the space of the attacked ship) and it will have a move still available. Once in a while, however, it will move into the destroyed ship's spot, using its move. (I have only seen this with

Reply to Galactic Civilizations interview in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Another point to consider: Things like Warcraft x, Spacecraft x, Ceasar x, etc. is that they are what I call single play games. You can never get anything but the one storyline out of it no matter how many times you try. Cheers, Jack