[DN5] Bug Report List

bearclaw · Moderator Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: BC, Canada

The official Dark Nova 5 Bug report list. When posting, please start the post with the version number of the mod you found it on. If this gets really lengthy, it'll make it easier for me to track current problems.

bearclaw · Moderator Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: BC, Canada

[5.00] Reported by Toxic:
-AI will colonize home system, but will not explore or build anything other than colony ship.
-Artillery, Infantry, Mines, Mobile Armor, Aircraft, Battlemech have no components available (forgot to change troop components to work with new troop unit types.)
-tech icons do not show when researching for Mothership, Worldship. Techs still available however.
-Deep Space Fighter Unit Type not allowing any components to be placed. (same issue as troop units above).

ekolis · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:53 pm Post subject:

Did you know that spaceempires5.com has a nice bug tracking system set up for mods?

bearclaw · Moderator Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: BC, Canada

Really? I haven't seen that.

ekolis · Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 5:28 pm Post subject:

Yeah, look under "projects" - you should be able to create a mod project there and get an upload area as well as a bugtracker! Smile

bearclaw · Moderator Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: BC, Canada

Cool. Gonna check that out. Thanks.

bearclaw · Moderator Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: BC, Canada

It was pointed out to me that for the larger freighters there is not enough slots in stock shipsets to satisfy 50% cargo bays requirement. Oops. I've already begun work on adding different size of cargo, supply, and ordinance storage components that should help with this. When done, there will be a 1 kt, 10 kt, 20 kt, 50 kt and 100 kt versions of each that will all have storage capacities relevant to each other (ie: no one will be 'better' than another in cost, storage space or size).

Also, I'll be putting in that supply and ordinance will count towards cargo space requirements.

WillTheGreat · Space Emperor Joined: Mar 18, 2006

The requirements for non-standard Scout hulls seems a little off; I had access to the crystalline, organic, and symbiotic variants without any racial tech traits.

bearclaw · Moderator Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: BC, Canada

Arge.. Thought I had that fixed. Must have missed scouts. Thanks. On the list.

Galaad · Space Emperor Joined: Feb 06, 2008

the fighter bays requirement in all carrier doesn't work, I have use entiere hull with fighter bay and the reqierement was not complette.

bearclaw · Moderator Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: BC, Canada

Thanks.
Larger sizes of freighters have the same problem. 5.04 now has larger sizes of cargo storage, supply storage, ordnance storage and a Fighter Hanger component. It's a larger version of fighter bay.

exelsiar · Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:40 pm Post subject:

apart from the obvious ai troubles i've only found this one thing:

- artillery is essentially useless due to its size and cockpit requirement

bearclaw · Moderator Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: BC, Canada

Oops. My bad...
I had it on my list to deal with troops in all their various forms before releasing.. not sure how that slipped past.

On the list and will be trying to get that out in 5.04.

Astorax · Space Emperor Joined: Jan 14, 2008

Hey Bearclaw, I noticed in 5.03 you have taken out the Population Minister. Why? I love that guy, saved me all that undoming micromanagement crap by spacing anyone that can't breathe that atmosphere.

bearclaw · Moderator Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: BC, Canada

... wern't me. I didn't touch ministers at all.

Astorax · Space Emperor Joined: Jan 14, 2008

Weird, I definetly don't have a Population Minister anymore.

Anyways, a couple more things:

1) on a colony ship on turn 1 the colony module stores 50kt worth of cargo (population). If I add 1 cargo container (level 1) which says it holds 200kt worth of cargo I end up with 300kt, not 250kt like it should be.

2) I started a no-intel game with no neutral empires and the Eee Consortium, Norak Continuum and the Bixulog Hive all are building intel facilities.

Astorax · Space Emperor Joined: Jan 14, 2008

Bearclaw, in fact, all the "colony" style ministers appear to be missing. There are none. I'm checking back and forth between balance and yours and theres 7 types of "Colony" ministers missing (all of them).

Colony - Drone Launching
Colony - Facilities
Colony - Fighter Launching
Colony - Mine Launching
Colony - Population
Colony - Satellite Launching
Colony - Unit Scrapping

Those are all supposed to be between Vehicle Design and Construction - Facilities ministers. Now that I look at it, Construction - Facilities is missing too.

Astorax · Space Emperor Joined: Jan 14, 2008

Umm, I just checked against stock SEV and, apparently, there are no Colony type ministers in stock either. I wasn't aware CaptainKwok's was the only mod with these ministers.

So the Balance Mod is the only mod with a Population Minister?

bearclaw · Moderator Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: BC, Canada

Yes. looks that way. Though it might be worth asking Kwok if I can put those in. I never use ministers (I like micro-managing) but I can see their value.

The colony ship thing is really weird. The cargo space should only be provided by those 2 components (coolny module and cargo bay) and in 5.03 I didn't touch either of them. I'll see what I can find.

Astorax · Space Emperor Joined: Jan 14, 2008

The only ministers I use are the Population one because managing that by yourself is just a hassle and the Colonizer minister. Its just easier to let them say "Go here and colonize this world!" than for me to do the same. I would rather be plotting the demise of my neighbors or designing the better mousetrap.

I would love for Dark Nova to have the Population Minister atleast, Bearclaw. That is such a useful one.

exelsiar · Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:41 am Post subject:

another one i found but didnt note down when i first found it

Point Singularity Cannon doesnt appear to get unlocked when its ment to, i just had a lookie through the data files and cant seem to find a reason why not :s

bearclaw · Moderator Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: BC, Canada

k, thanks. It's on the list now.

burst1 · Space Emperor Joined: Feb 08, 2008

bearclaw · Moderator Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: BC, Canada

Deep Space Fighters shouldn't affect that.... Thanks, I'm going to have to figure out what that's all about and why that does fix the problem.

Galaad · Space Emperor Joined: Feb 06, 2008