SEV 1.08 Bug List

Fyron · Galactic Guru Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: CA, USA

The purpose of this thread is to provide a listing of bugs in the 1.08 version of SE5. You can either post the bug here, or post a link to another thread where it is reported (along with a 1-3 sentence summary of the bug). Please do not hold conversations in this thread.

tindrli · Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 9:08 am Post subject:

1. building multiple shipyards on planets bug

http://www.spaceempires.net/home/ftopict-1899.html

Durandal · Space Emperor Joined: Oct 18, 2006 Location: Michigan, USA

By using the queue manager screen, you can add ships to queues of planets that do no have shipyards by

1) Selecting a planet with a shipyard and planets without shipyards.
2)Clicking "Add To All"
3) Adding the ship to the queue screen

The ship does not end up being build at the planets w/o shipyards but I do believe that it consumes resources and it definately fills the queue for the planets.

Warped · Space Emperor Joined: May 08, 2005 Location: NY, USA

Can't take the last unit of foreign population off their own planet, even if you have previously dropped your own population in so that you don't end up with zero pop. If you insist on removing that last bit of population (by repeatedly double clicking) you get a floating point error game crash.

Alliance relations button in alliance chambers screen gives index error and crashes.

Sending an alliance message seems to substitute ? or %Alliancename% instead of the alliance name.

When trading techs, the 'give' and 'get' techs both seem to give the tech to the other side.

Edit: Added 10/28
Access violation when loading game from space battle.

If a fleet comprised of both non-armed and armed vessels attack a planet, the entire fleet retreats immediately regardless of orders or task force division. If a fleet comprised of armed vessels only attacks a planet, it will destroy everything, glassing the planet, regardless of orders (such as capture planet). I tried every variation of this that I could to find a pattern. Here are my findings:
Scenario: 3 DUC frigates, 2 support ships, 2 boarding ships attacking planet defended by 6 fighters.
1. All ships against planet, orders to capture. Result: Boarding ships head toward planet, drop troops. Other ships run away immediately. Enemy fighters attack boarding ships, pursue other ships. Eventually catch up to frigates and the fighters are destroyed in self defense.
2. All ships against planet, orders to fire at optimal range. Result: All ships flee from planet. The rest is the same as 1.
3. Same as 1 without boarding ships. Result: All flee.
4. Same as 1 without boarding or support. Result: Frigates attack and destroy fighter defenses and planet, disregarding 'capture planet' order.
5. Same as 2 without boarding ships. Result: All flee.
6. Same as 2 without boarding or support. Result: Same as 4.

I won't repeat the rest of my results using task forces to try to divide the attacking ships because the results are similar. I hope this helps.

WillTheGreat · Space Emperor Joined: Mar 18, 2006

Freeze and access violation when setting up fleets in the space combat simulator.

albi_joe · Space Emperor Joined: Mar 19, 2005 Location: USA

Simultaneous mode play does not allow the launching, recovering or transport of any cargo manually (auto-loading colonists or production items into cargo does work).

http://www.spaceempires.net/home/ftopict-1900.html

Earwig · Space Emperor Joined: Jun 06, 2005

1.) When a unit is given a Move order to a system several systems away, the lag between individual hex movements when the ship is actually moving is very high and annoying.

2.) Ringworlds do not center over a star and the Race Flag and Planet Status boxes are not over the ringworld. Also, they kinda suck given the billions of research it takes to build them. Maybe increase the space to 200? 300?

3.) Retrofit still requires you to do one ship at a time.

4.) Ground combat will sometimes bug out and not load a planet. Troops will be unable to target each other and combat will continue each turn until you destroy the planet. The same thing happens in another instance, where if there's one unlaunched small sattelite on a planet that belongs to an enemy and you land troops that have Ground Cannons, they can't target the sattelite and you can't take the planet. You'll need to destroy the planet to end the cycle of endless Ground Combat every turn. There should be a way to withdraw from ground combat and you should be able to capture Sattelites and unlaunched fighters.

5.) NOT A BUG: I think Capital Ship Missile explosions could be cooler looking. Smile

6.) Intel bug, where if a project is destroyed, it takes -30,000,000 or some huge amount.

7.) Sometimes the music will skip backwards and an additional delay will happen between turns at the "Processing" stage.

I'll post more when I get back from work. Good luck!

markman59 · Space Emperor Joined: Oct 19, 2005 Location: Michigan, USA

Ships in fleets lose all their ordnance at the beginning of each turn. Real bummer until you develop decent energy weapons. Heard from Aaron that this would be fixed by the next patch, due out Nov. 6th.

Quanto · Space Emperor Joined: May 20, 2006 Location: Gilmanton, NH

Sometime warp points will be spawned right within the outer edge of a star. This wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't for the fact that you can't actually leave a star system once u enter it though one of these warp points. Its kind of annoying. Razz

rwglaub · Space Emperor Joined: Oct 29, 2006 Location: Laurel, MD

Getting unexplained hangups when computer is processing other player moves between turns. Very annoying. Didn't somebody playtest this game???

albi_joe · Space Emperor Joined: Mar 19, 2005 Location: USA

Auto-complete will add crew/life/bridge to a ship, even if the ship does not have the warnings for lack thereof (specifically happened with a master computer-equipped ship)

Rathan · Space Emperor Joined: Jun 07, 2005

Crash whenever attempting to recover fighters from space

Sometimes in ground combat, troops will be placed over the edge of the map and cannot move close enough to the enemy force to attack.

Moonsword · Space Emperor Joined: Jan 14, 2005 Location: Georgia

WillTheGreat · Space Emperor Joined: Mar 18, 2006

Are you certain of that? Laughing

Thighzen · Space Emperor Joined: May 27, 2006

There is also the intelligence sabotage bug that I think fyron has posted a workaround for. An enemy empire will sabotage your research project and it will put the project basically into negative points and require some insane number of turns to research the next level.

Earwig · Space Emperor Joined: Jun 06, 2005

Using "upgrade facilities" at the Master Construction Queue screen will randomly NOT upgrade facilities on many planets. I can't figure out what the method is to the failure.

SupremeSoviet · Space Emperor Joined: Oct 05, 2006

Neutral Races Do not respond or accept/refuse treaties obviously(or is this a new mod that fixed that?)

The_Draf · Space Emperor Joined: Jan 16, 2006

When I mothball space stations they disappear

Fyron · Galactic Guru Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: CA, USA

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Gunther · Space Emperor Joined: Nov 02, 2006

I've been getting this irritating bug where the game freezes up (particularly when I'm monkeying around in the main window, scrolling over planets and whatnot).

I'd say 80% of the time, the game 'unsticks'. It seems to help if I wiggle the mouse around and swear at the computer. If it doesn't unstick, in a short amount of time, the sound track will start to 'skip and repeat'. Eventually the screen blinks off, and its time to reset the computer time.

Any ideas?

Thighzen · Space Emperor Joined: May 27, 2006

Another one that i'm not sure is a bug is bomblet missiles won't fire at fighters until they are very close the the ship even when strategy is set to maximum range. And if you have more than one bomblet missile on a ship they all fire at the same fighter.

Singularity · Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 11:51 am Post subject:

1.13 has just been released:

http://www.malfador.com/

The_Draf · Space Emperor Joined: Jan 16, 2006

In 1.13. It is not possible to mothball bases. They think it is because they have movement 0.

Also, when the my Weaponplatforms fire their Antiphoton beam the beam does not come from the planet itself but from a point high above the planet

albi_joe · Space Emperor Joined: Mar 19, 2005 Location: USA

1.13:
starting with some tech points, using them, then dropping the tech point level down does not remove the tech points used.

Choosing "All tech" then dropping it to "none" gives you all tech at the beginning of the game.

Guardianz · Space Emperor Joined: Nov 08, 2006

1.13

Troops have no movement during ground combat.

PS Thx to Kwok for giving me a temporary fix for this. Smile