Official v6.40 Bugs Reporting Thread

[TheDeadlyShoe]

does it have a fuel tank?

[WCG]

Error 3420 - Object invalid or no longer set.

I sent my Geology Team to Phobos, because they didn't have anything else to do. They didn't find any minerals, but Aurora made it a colony anyway, for some reason. So I tried to abandon the colony. I got an Error 3420, which won't go away.

I couldn't do anything but Ctrl-Alt-Delete to close the game without saving. But I've still got this error on the screen, and even in Task Manager, I can't get rid of it. Hopefully, rebooting my computer will work!

I did a search here, but it didn't help much. What happened here, and what can I do to keep it from happening again?

Thanks.

[TheDeadlyShoe]

to do anything on a body, there has to be a colony. dropping a team off on a planet creates a colony.

i don't know what error 3420 is, you mighta screwed your game...

was the team still on the colony when you abandoned it?

EDIT:
not sure if this counts as a bug, but Fuel Storage - Small and Fuel Storage - Tiny list as having 1 HTK in the design screen, which is kinda nuts if true.

[Barkhorn]

does it have a fuel tank?

Yeah.  I fixed it with SM refuel.  I built the PDC on a colony with no fuel, and because it had a fuel tank it kept interrupting about empty tanks.

Why are you even able to build PDC's with fuel tanks?  What's the point?

[Erik L]

Yeah.  I fixed it with SM refuel.  I built the PDC on a colony with no fuel, and because it had a fuel tank it kept interrupting about empty tanks.

Why are you even able to build PDC's with fuel tanks?  What's the point?

Fighter bases?

[WCG]

was the team still on the colony when you abandoned it?

Yes. I'd ordered that they be picked up and moved, but they were still there. Maybe that was the problem?

not sure if this counts as a bug, but Fuel Storage - Small and Fuel Storage - Tiny list as having 1 HTK in the design screen, which is kinda nuts if true.

A fuel tank would be quite vulnerable, don't you think? Why would you think that was odd?

Anyway, thanks for the reply.

[TheDeadlyShoe]

most components with <1 HS have 0 HTK

your game might be trying to process some order involving the team or the personnel in the team, if your ship is still trying to pickup, cancel the order.

[Barkhorn]

Fighter bases?

Couldn't you just as easily have fuel in the colony?

[Garfunkel]

Try a shorter name

Thanks, that fixed it.

http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=7911.0 maybe?

Thanks. I was using the aurora wrapper and it creates the Logs folder temporarily and I thought that was enough but apparently occasionally Windows glitched with it. I closed down Aurora, manually created the C:\Logs directory and no more errors.

[Erik L]

Couldn't you just as easily have fuel in the colony?

I don't recall if a PDC requires a colony or not, but if you stick one on a moon/asteroid with no colony...

[SteelChicken]

Yeah.  I fixed it with SM refuel.  I built the PDC on a colony with no fuel, and because it had a fuel tank it kept interrupting about empty tanks.

Why are you even able to build PDC's with fuel tanks?  What's the point?

To keep the fuel for the fighters separate from ships taking all the fuel from the colony.  You can transfer fuel back and forth from the PDC to the colony via the individual ship screen.

[SteelChicken]

Not sure if I made an error or if its a bug...

Was building on a planet were I wanted to start putting together a pre fabricated PDC, noticed that the PDC build was on hold until the first build was finished so I put that on hold and waited for the PDC to be put togther, nothing happened... So I terminated them both and tried to start a new PDC reassembly, but my pre fabricated PDC had wanished...

My fault?

Bug?

Dont know why it was on hold, but if you terminate an assemble PDC project, you lost the components.  They get consumed once you start the project.

[WCG]

Re. Error 3420 - Object invalid or no longer set.


Huh! This was rather nice, I must say. I had to Ctrl-Alt-Delete and use Task Manager to close Aurora, and then I actually had to reboot my computer to get rid of the above error message. But that worked fine.

Plus, when I started the game again, I discovered that I hadn't even wasted any time. Apparently, closing the game through the Task Manager still saved my progress. That was nice.

Well, it wouldn't have been so nice if the error had still been there, I guess. Heh, heh. But no, everything was fine. I thought I'd lost my geology team, since I couldn't find them on Phobos. But they'd been teleported to Earth, apparently. And this time, I was able to abandon that 'colony' on Phobos with no trouble.

Altogether, this was a lot better result than I was expecting. 

[MarcAFK]

Since the games basicly a huge database generally when it crashes you don't lose anything.
Though sometimes you might lose individual units that are being transferred or something.

[sloanjh]

Since the games basicly a huge database generally when it crashes you don't lose anything.
Though sometimes you might lose individual units that are being transferred or something.

That being said, the DB can be corrupted by a crash (or other weird things can happen) so you should save early and often.  There's  thread in FAQ describing a save strategy, plus I think the installer might have some save functionality.

John