v4.9 Bugs Thread (no longer current)

[Kishmond]

- I'm getting "Error 3420 was generated by DAO.Recordset. Object invalid or no longer set." When my very slow freighters are moving between 2 close planets such as Earth to Mars or Earth to Venus and the destination planet moves.

[Yonder]

I have had the game pass in 38 minute increments for the last couple months, I saved the event log to a .txt but there wasn't any more info in that. I will email the database to you in a rar.

Edit: I realized that I should switch to SM mode and save that log, when I do that I can see that for the last 3 weeks a Precursor  ship has been shooting a load of missiles at an NPR every 38 minutes. I'd love for you to tell me how he hasn't either killed his foe yet, or run out of ammunition.

[mrwigggles]

Possible Bug:

When leaving a diplomacy team on a owned planet, its diplomacy skill increases.

That is normal. A Diplomacy team is assigned on the foreign relations window and represents the diplomatic activity directed toward a particular alien race, rather than the presence of that team on an alien world.

Steve

Ah, then let me also include that I don't have the said team assigned to any other races.

(So, I don't need to build a speedy jump ship to land the team then GTFO there?)

[VariousArtist]

In my new game (4.91) Ive encountered the following error messages so far:

When Ive tried to pause a research:
Error in cmdPause_Click
Error 381 was generated by MSFlexGrid
Subscript out of range
I cant pause research!
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Intelligence - Just had flag for another empire - guess thats no contact, yet. When I tried to change mil. cooperation level:

Error in optStatus_Click
Error381 -invalid property array index

Error in optStatus_Click
Error 3078 was generated by DAO.Database

and 5x
Error 91 was gen. by Aurora
Object variable or With block variable not set
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When picking a Task Group on the Task Group Screen:
Error in ReturnTimeCurrency
Error 6 was generated by Aurora
Overflow
No idea to what this was related - it just disapeared after a while.
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and, when advancing time,again a lot of
Error in NPRPopPlanning
error 3420 was generated by DAO.Recordset

[Charlie Beeler]

Steve,

There appears to be an issue it the routine for calc'ing fighter engine power output, specificly when applying efficiency/power tech.  Example: Ion fighter engine base power is 36.  Set E/P to -30%/+15% power becomes 42.  (36*1.15 = 41.4) I'd been assuming the rounding was to next integer.  Set E/P to -40%/+20% expected result was 44, instead it remains 42. (36*1.2 = 43.2).  

I using a modified v4.91 database.  None of the changes are to power systems only turret tracking speed, gauss cannon size, rate, and velocity.

Engines in question also have thermal reduction 35% and fuel efficiency .6 techs applied.  Neither should affect actual power output if my understanding is correct.

[Andrew]

There is a problem loading troops into drop modules , I have a fleet with 25 Drop modules, 5 small drop modules, 25 transport bays and 5 small transport bays. At the moment the fleet is only carrying 5 marine companies , I ordered troops loaded into drop modules and it appears that the companies have been loaded into the Full size drop modules which are not the ones I want them in. I think there needs to be a way of dsignating the drop bay or at least the size of drop bay being used

[Hawkeye]

I just got the following:
I found a few comercial jump engines on Mars.
So I send a few freighters to pick them up and bring them to Earth, where all the shipyards are.
After flying back and forth, the jumpengines are still on Mars, while Earth shows 0 commercial jumpengines (obviously, they are too large to fit into the holds of one of my frighters)
Now to the bug: I can deconstruct the 0 jumpengine, which shows then -1 JE, again deconstructing -2 and so on, apparently infinitely. Best of all, I got a level on jump engine efficiency the second or third time I did this. Just to look how far it would go, I deconstructed ´til -21, then scraped the thing.

I did pay a price, however: scraping -21 jump engines got me -907 wealth, -181t Duranium and -725t Sorium  

[Commodore_Areyar]

I just got the following:
I found a few comercial jump engines on Mars.
So I send a few freighters to pick them up and bring them to Earth, where all the shipyards are.
After flying back and forth, the jumpengines are still on Mars, while Earth shows 0 commercial jumpengines (obviously, they are too large to fit into the holds of one of my frighters)
Now to the bug: I can deconstruct the 0 jumpengine, which shows then -1 JE, again deconstructing -2 and so on, apparently infinitely. Best of all, I got a level on jump engine efficiency the second or third time I did this. Just to look how far it would go, I deconstructed ´til -21, then scraped the thing.

I did pay a price, however: scraping -21 jump engines got me -907 wealth, -181t Duranium and -725t Sorium  

Reported same above (for 4.82)
As far bas I can tell, it happens when the Fleet cargospace is not big enough for the components. components cannot be transported as fractions, like installations can.
I only had it happen for huge components like terraformers and salvagers. This in a fleet large enough for two mines. It transported engines and scanners just fine.

-Ar

[Baron Of Hell]

v4.91

Error 3077 was generated by DAO.Recordset
Syntax error (missing operator) in expression.

Got this error after trying to retool a ship with new jump drive.  Pops up every turn now.

[Commodore_Areyar]

Is it a bug when a task uses data that is out of date?
A ship will use the data available at the time an order is given, not the actual data at the time the task is performed/attempted.

situation:
send a ship towards a planet to drop off two teams, once there the first order will get canceled because the target is not a pop.
Now make it a pop, advance time, the second drop team task will also cancel due to the target not being a pop.
reissuing the orders once the body has been designated a pop will allow the team to be dropped as it was supposed to.

-Ar (now updated to 3.92!)

[Baron Of Hell]

v4.91

Error 3077 was generated by DAO.Recordset
Syntax error (missing operator) in expression.

Got this error after trying to retool a ship with new jump drive.  Pops up every turn now.

Thus error has gone away. I have no idea why.

[Andrew]

There may be a problem with boarding combat, or at least if you do something stupid. I had marine boarding the big alien contact , and for some reason I thought all the companies had been destroyed so I blew it up with a missile salvo . It appears that several marine companies where still alive at that point , and they still show up on my list of all ground units but with no entry in the location column.

[Father Tim]

Turning off 'Realistic Officer Promotions' does not turn off the 'up-or-out' function, resulting in Aurora firing 90% of my officer corps when I wished to retain them.

[Father Tim]

The mineral shortage message for a shipyard expansion or ground unit training task includes the mineral name in the message:
"Mineral shortage (Neutronium) in Ground Unit Training for Alzarius"
The mineral shortage message for Production does not:
"Mineral shortage in Production of Convert Conventional Ind to Industrial Capacity at Alzarius"

On the (F2) 'Population & Production' window, the Production ("Amount Remaining") and Research ("RP Required") tabs count down your progress on each task, whereas the Shipbuilding ("Progress") and Ground Unit Training ("TP Accumulated") count up

[Steve Walmsley (OP)]

I have found and fixed the error 91 in NPRPopPlanning. If you see it in the meantime, don't worry as it doesn't affect anything.

Steve