v2.5.1 Bugs Thread

[AlStar]

Stabilizing an LP point on a planet with an elliptical orbit appears to place the LP where it would go if the orbit was circular (or I'm assuming that's what it's doing - it's certainly not placing them on the orbital line.)

[skoormit]

Stabilizing an LP point on a planet with an elliptical orbit appears to place the LP where it would go if the orbit was circular (or I'm assuming that's what it's doing - it's certainly not placing them on the orbital line.)

Have you advanced game time since the LP was completed?
Prior to eccentricity being added, there was a bug in the displayed position of the LP upon completion, but the position updated correctly after time was advanced (possibly not until the next construction cycle).
Perhaps this is just a different presentation of the same bug.

[AlStar]

Looks like you're correct - I went back to the system in question and the LP is now on the planet's track.

I'm not sure when, exactly, it updated - but I know that it wasn't instantly, because I saw my stabilization ship make its way to the LP after it created it.

[skoormit]

EDIT: Ignore this one. It was already fixed in the 2.5.1 patch.

Summary: Dormant construct bonus apparently being applied to local research.


I did a non-Sol start by making a new system with the "Create Habitable" button, and making a race on the generated homeworld with the "Create Race" button.

The HW has a dormant construct. I have not yet developed the technology to investigate it.

However, the Research tab seems to be including a 40% bonus for Ground Combat research projects.

[skoormit]

Loading multiples of the same ship design component on a freighter only uses the space of one component.

I loaded eight Boat Bay components (size 5.25HS = 262.5t ea.) onto a freighter with 5000 cargo capacity.
After loading, reported remaining capacity is 4737, which indicates that only a single Boat Bay is being subtracted from total capacity.

[skoormit]

Training a XENO unit does not initiate Dormant Construct survey on the same body.


My HW (non-Sol start) has an Ancient Construct, which was dormant at game start.
After some years, I finally constructed a XENO ground unit.
I left the unit on the HW and waited for it to survey the construct.

And I waited.
And waited.
And waited.

After 9+ years of no results, I loaded the unit on a transport, and immediately unloaded the unit back to the surface.
Five months later, the construct was reported as surveyed.

So, it seems like the code only starts calculating construct survey chances after a XENO unit is unloaded onto the body.
Training a unit locally does not seem to trigger it.

[Andrew]

Fire Control Jammer 3 seems to have the wrong cost of 60 , the other level 3 jammers have a cost of 30 and all the level 12,4 jammer costs are identical, fire control jammer 4 costs 40

[Kaiser]

I designed and researched an infantry unit, then obsoleded it because it wasn't what I wanted. It is now appearing under the power and propulsion research tab as researcheable race-designed engine 

[skoormit]

I designed and researched an infantry unit, then obsoleded it because it wasn't what I wanted. It is now appearing under the power and propulsion research tab as researcheable race-designed engine 

There used to be a similar bug that could happen if you had two Create Research Project windows at the same time when you designed a component to research.

Regardless, you should be able to just delete the tech from the Research screen.

[nuclearslurpee]

In the Medal Management window, the Medal Conditions tab does not correctly reflect the medals of the current race in cases of multiple player races. In other words, in a game with multiple player races, if I set medal conditions for Player Race 1, then switch to Player Race 2, the medals shown in the Medal Conditions tab will show medals from Player Race 1 (regardless of whether Player Race 2 has set a medal for that condition).

[skoormit]

"Show Next Tech" checkbox does not affect the Engine Power dropdown.

On the Create Research Project window, with Engines selected as the type, there are five further dropdowns:

Engine Tech
Engine Power
Fuel Consumption
Thermal Reduction
Engine Size

My current tech is:
Nuclear Pulse
40%-200%
0.8LEPH
50% Thermal
60HS max

When I tick the Show Next Tech checkbox, the dropdown lists repopulate with the options that will become available when I complete the next associated tech.
Except for Engine Power, which still only has the options from 40% to 200%.

[ISN]

Tractored ships with engines will use fuel as if they were moving under their own power under certain conditions. I believe the bug shows up if the tractored ship has moved on its own without being tractored since the last time the game was opened. I was able to reproduce the issue in a fresh game using the following steps:

• Make two tugs and two other ships with engines, e.g. fuel harvesters
• Order Harvester 1 to move to Luna, leave the other one at Earth
• Order Tug 1 to tractor Harvester 1 and Tug 2 to tractor Harvester 2
• Order both tugs to move to Neptune. Harvester 1 will use fuel while being tugged; Harvester 2 will not.
• Save, close, and reopen the game, and neither one will use fuel

I confirmed I'm using version 2.5.1.

[Kurt]

I have discovered a bug, I think.  I went through the bug posts for 2.51 and couldn't find anything like it, but who knows?

To start I am using a fresh install of 2.51.  No mods or anything unusual. 

I started a single-player race campaign with limited starting tech featuring a humanity that had been conquered and oppressed by aliens for quite a while, before they mysteriously left just as the human resistance was close to defeating their human proxy troops. The humans get their act together and begin exploring the solar system, looking for the aliens, and expanding and building a fleet in case they find them.  I pushed this campaign about twelve years down the road, from 2400 to 2412, before stopping because I was considering starting a different campaign with multiple player races. 

I created the second game in the same database and played around with it for a bit, but never got much beyond the start phase, mostly due to a crippling Fallout 4 addiction, as my son helped me mod the base game and add a lot of new content. 

Either before I created the second campaign or just after I noticed Steve's campaign that comes with the database and I deleted it. 

After the Fallout 4 addition abated a bit I felt the need to get back to Aurora, so I opened up the game and decided to go back to my single-race game, as it was farther along and better developed.  However, the dates are now screwed up.  As noted above, the campaign started at 2400, and went out to March of 2412 before I quit.  My log document verifies this.  When I opened up the campaign, the dates in the Events window are in August 2068.  I checked the image I had made of the starting conditions and that verifies that the campaign started on the year 2400 as well. 

I don't know where this date came from.  The other campaign I created, with multiple player races, started in the year 1, so it doesn't seem to be cross contamination from that. 

I don't know how this happened, and the campaign is essentially unusable because the dates don't match my log document (potential campaign write-up). 

Kurt   

[areyoufrustrated?]

Hello, I was using a somewhat old version of Aurora 4x, and having a fine game, until I decided to create another Race during my playthrough.  I started getting errors every time I tried to change the time, so I had to uninstall and reinstall the game, with the latest patch.

Unfortunately, every time I open up the game, every time I uninstall and reinstall it, I get the error messages: "2. 5. 1 Function #141: Column "Eldar" does not belong to table Record Set", and then

"2. 5. 1 Function #139: Object Reference not set to an instance of an object"
Im allowed to open the game, but every time I click something that second error pops up, including to when I try starting a new game, which gives two errors
"2. 5. 1 Function #1709: Object Reference, etc"
and
"2. 5. 1 Function #1697: Object Reference not set to an instance of an object"

No matter how many times I uninstall, and reinstall, ive been getting the same errors ever since I created that new race in that old save (which is now gone).  I am confused and would like to ask for help on this.

Thank you

[nuclearslurpee]

Hello, I was using a somewhat old version of Aurora 4x, and having a fine game, until I decided to create another Race during my playthrough.  I started getting errors every time I tried to change the time, so I had to uninstall and reinstall the game, with the latest patch.

Unfortunately, every time I open up the game, every time I uninstall and reinstall it, I get the error messages: "2. 5. 1 Function #141: Column "Eldar" does not belong to table Record Set", and then

"2. 5. 1 Function #139: Object Reference not set to an instance of an object"
Im allowed to open the game, but every time I click something that second error pops up, including to when I try starting a new game, which gives two errors
"2. 5. 1 Function #1709: Object Reference, etc"
and
"2. 5. 1 Function #1697: Object Reference not set to an instance of an object"

No matter how many times I uninstall, and reinstall, ive been getting the same errors ever since I created that new race in that old save (which is now gone).  I am confused and would like to ask for help on this.

Thank you

This sounds like a mismatch between the executable version and the database version, which is probably due to a bad install. I recommend trying a fresh install in a different location, following the installation instructions very, very closely.

For reference, that means to install the full 1.13 distribution, then the 2.5.0 distribution, then the 2.5.1 distribution in that order, following the instructions in each linked thread.