v5.56/v5.60 Official Bugs Thread

[Theodidactus]

really weird one, only in my home system (sol) and only if I zoom.
Error in save zoom level:

Error 3709
The search key was not found in any record



any idea how to fix this? I really like this game, and I can't figure out where in my massive autosave chain this error crops up

does anyone know why this is happening to me? and is it fixable?

[jedi72it]

@Steve: i just checked with the SM on, as you said there were 0. 0004 pop

@nathan and heph: i used SM mode to wipe that infinitesimal pop, so now Venus is again a mineral automated site only, and since i have just colonised Mars (year 2097 in my first conventional game), i guess i won't colonize Venus for a looooong time. . .

@Erik Thanks and my version is 5. 60

[Bgreman]

An interesting one:  Passive thermal detection (at least the sensors on DSTSs) always assumes the maximum thermal signature of a ship and not the one determined by its current speed setting.  To reproduce:

Ensure you have no active sensors on that could interfere with the experiment.
Create a ship design for the enemy race.
Set it at the location of your DSTS.
Set it to move away from the DSTS at a speed lower than its maximum speed, so that its thermal signature is reduced.
Set the range circles on the Sensors tab of the System Map to show the range your DSTS can detect the CURRENT (i.e. reduced-speed) thermal signature of the enemy ship.
Advance time and observe as the contact remains visible well after it has crossed the range threshold for its signature.
Set the range circles on the Sensors tab of the System Map to show the range your DSTS can detect the MAXIMUM (full-speed) thermal signature of the enemy ship.
Advance time and observe as the contact is lost after it has crossed the range threshold for its max signature.

[ExChairman]

My escorts fire their anti missiles both in offensive and defensive mode, regardless of what I want, cant turn them off....

[Hawkeye]

My escorts fire their anti missiles both in offensive and defensive mode, regardless of what I want, cant turn them off....

Just to get the obvious out of the way, autofire _is_ off?

[Sloshmonger]

5.60

When creating a race from the "Start Game" screen and letting the computer auto-assign research points,  the "Expand Civilian Economy XX%" research line dead ends if the AI picks the 10k tech.  No futher techs of this line appear, either in Available or All Tech views.

The line can be restored if you SM Remove the 10k, and it continues to progress after it's restored.

This may be affecting AI as well, leading to possible AI economy crashes. (Which is why I always make sure to rescue them from their oppresive governments and liberate their wallets.)

[ExChairman]

Yep, fire control was Off, had it on before but when it begun to use my offensive size 1 missiles I tried to turn it of... Seems to be working now...


One more thing, probably got it wrong, but i fired several salvos of missiles at a planet with a lot of hardware circling it, by last salvo was 148 missiles from one ship, those 148 missiles didn't have a target so when they arrived at the battle (slaughter) scene I thought they would attack individually, but no they all attacked the same ship and when that was destroyed they all dove into that nuclear holocaust and I lost 146 missiles to nothing... Shouldn't they attack different targets, or at least divide them up so they don't do a OVERKILL 

[Beersatron]

Yep, fire control was Off, had it on before but when it begun to use my offensive size 1 missiles I tried to turn it of... Seems to be working now...


One more thing, probably got it wrong, but i fired several salvos of missiles at a planet with a lot of hardware circling it, by last salvo was 148 missiles from one ship, those 148 missiles didn't have a target so when they arrived at the battle (slaughter) scene I thought they would attack individually, but no they all attacked the same ship and when that was destroyed they all dove into that nuclear holocaust and I lost 146 missiles to nothing... Shouldn't they attack different targets, or at least divide them up so they don't do a OVERKILL 

It should work on a salvo basis, so if all 146 missiles were in one salvo then

[ExChairman]

Yes, there were some 30 missile defence bases around that planet so I thought that if I sen several small waves of missiles and one large it should take care of it...  Had 8 heavy cruisers with missiles that did the job in the end...

"I hate mobile phones and posting on them"

[crys]

the orbital cheat - aurora 5.60 - sorry i dont know if it was posted before


lets say you want orbital terraforming bases with 100 terraforming modules

first you need to build 100 terraforming modules.

now you can order youre orbitals for cheap for once.
you dont have to pay for the terraforming modules.
order 10 or how many orbitals as you want, you just pay for the stuff not preproduced for each.
you get all the preproduced terraforming modules for free, except thouse 100 you preproduced thouse are lost.
but hey when you build 100 modules and get 900 free, not a bad trade.

please fix this =)

[Kirkegaard]

Hey, I'm new to this game.  So I might have missed something important somewhere.  But now I have run into a bug that prevent me for playing on.

Win XP (Virtual) game version 5. 6.

"Error in CalculatedTotalTimeMove
Error 6 was generated by aurora
Overflow
Please report etc. . . "

I get it whenever I load my current game and go to Task group and select my cargo task group.

I can not get it to stop.

[crys]

you somehow gave to many orders for a task group.(over 1500++)
as long as you dont select the effected task group you can play on, i would suggest to absorb the task group into another task group, then the problem is "fixed"/old task group orders erased

maybe you can fix this problem with also with the shadowmasters mode, removing the effected task group?

[Kirkegaard]

Thank you.  The first part works.

Just found one more error in a new game, I have used all my free research point but I can still do "instant" research.  It seems there is no check if there is enough RP left.

[Erik L]

Thank you.  The first part works.

Just found one more error in a new game, I have used all my free research point but I can still do "instant" research.  It seems there is no check if there is enough RP left.

That's more of a feature than a bug. The RP display is just a guideline, it's not a hard rule.

[crys]

i found a bug involving to long ship names.

i had a ship design named "system asteroid miner 110-15-2957 mk2" ok i agree its a long name, but it causes problems.

as soon as i build this ship in a shipyard of mine, it would add another few numbers like " 001" - with this or even without, the name gets to long and the DB does not accept it as ship name.

in the Shipyard Tasks tab thouse ships would have no name displayed in the Unit Name colum, and the game starts spamming error msgs. for each ship of thouse you are building, whenever you do anything in the economics window regarding the world it is build on.


suggestion, let the game check the length of the ship name in Class design, and either do not accept to long names or shorten them somehow.


something else funny.

about research. with the all projects button you can select research subjects which are not listed in the available tab, and use the research queue feature to put them up next, only "queue top" works.

in this case i wanted to queue eccm2, currently researching eccm1, but i selected eccm4 by mistake.
now i have researched eccm4 and missing 2 and 3 - i can still research them.
dont know if this works without basic research(electronic warfare), or if you can research advanced lasers, railguns or fuel tanks this way.
just odd that it works at all