Official v6.40 Bugs Reporting Thread

[Llamatoesl]

Ok, i understand.  However, i dont see how that helps me in continueing my simulation ? Am i supposed delete a faction ?

You can't delete the faction.
If you are in the early game, then I recommend a restart, you'll lose nothing of value, and reaching where you are now will not take a long time.
Late game, I recommend you just push thorough it.

[Beersatron]

Ok, i understand.  However, i dont see how that helps me in continueing my simulation ? Am i supposed delete a faction ?

Do you have auto-turns checked? Make sure it is checked and then click on 5-day turns. Steve added some logic to try and handle these edge cases, if it yo-yos like this for 'x' number of times during auto-turns then it will delete one of the offending NPR task forces. If 5-day turns doesn't work then try 30-day turns, you have to make sure there are enough yo-yos for it to register as an issue.

[spoongoon]

Game version 6.43
Conventional start 35 yrs into the game.

When i try to drop off a sensor bouy at a jump point using either the ships window Msl Launch or the task group window Msl Launch buttons the game tells me the fleet is suffering from effects of transit when they did not come trough the jump point or even have jump engines. I can still do it from the orders menu by using launch missiles at so it´s not a big deal but something to know anyway.
The bouy doesn´t have engines, it´s a one stage size 5 missile with thermal, Em and active.

[Vandermeer]

When a military design under tow receives a maintenance failure it automatically detaches itself into a new task group. However, the tractor link is not formally broken and still exists in the ship window. That means that a player cannot directly re-establish a new link from the task force window, because that would result in a message telling me the target is already being towed. Instead you will have to manually break the link in the ship window before trying to reunite both in the task force window.

[Vandermeer]

The "Match Speed" checkbox on for copying orders to subordinate formations seems not to work properly. It must be one of those instead: Either it sets the speed of all subordinates to maximum, or it assumes the leader TG is flying at maximum instead of looking for its current speed.
I assume it is the first one - just all max.

[AncientSion]

One thing that is major pain in the arse, so to speak, is that while copy and designing a ship, the "eligible classes" tab shows another ship can be shared, but once you actually confirm, its gone !
I wasted so much time designing a ship and now i need to constantly re-equip ?!

[JacenHan]

Some things, like viewing missile loadouts at the summary screen or what you were talking about, need you to refresh that design by switching to another design then switching back.

[Viridia]

Just tried building a size ten missile for PDC's following my upgrade to version 6.43, and I've noticed an odd thing about my proposed missile design. I'm not great at screenshots, so here's the relevant text;

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Missile Size: 10 MSP  (0.5 HS)     Warhead: 4    Armour: 0     Manoeuvre Rating: 16
Speed: 2500 km/s    Engine Endurance: 14.8 hours   Range: 133.3m km
Cost Per Missile: 2.4725
Chance to Hit: 1k km/s 40%   3k km/s 0%   5k km/s 8%   10k km/s 4%
Materials Required:    1x Tritanium   1.4725x Gallicite   Fuel x250

Development Cost for Project: 247RP
As you can see, the fact that it registers a 0% hit chance for 3k km/s targets is quite odd, and I've never come across it in in the 6.3 version. Is this a game-breaking error or is it a mundane case of a few characters being left out?

[necropolis]

I've researched two different technologies now that do not act as if they have been researched.

The first was a fuel production upgrade.   When I looked at sorium harvesters after the research was concluded, the numbers all reflected the previous level of research.   This eventually went away when I researched the next level of fuel production.

I just finished Magnetic Confinement engine tech, and the option to use it does not appear in the design menu.   I would proceed as I did before, and research the next level of engine tech, however it gets very expensive at this point and I wouldn't be able to use my newest engine tech for several years, which is. . . uncomfortable.

[Charlie Beeler]

Just tried building a size ten missile for PDC's following my upgrade to version 6.43, and I've noticed an odd thing about my proposed missile design. I'm not great at screenshots, so here's the relevant text;

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Missile Size: 10 MSP  (0.5 HS)     Warhead: 4    Armour: 0     Manoeuvre Rating: 16
Speed: 2500 km/s    Engine Endurance: 14.8 hours   Range: 133.3m km
Cost Per Missile: 2.4725
Chance to Hit: 1k km/s 40%   3k km/s 0%   5k km/s 8%   10k km/s 4%
Materials Required:    1x Tritanium   1.4725x Gallicite   Fuel x250

Development Cost for Project: 247RP
As you can see, the fact that it registers a 0% hit chance for 3k km/s targets is quite odd, and I've never come across it in in the 6.3 version. Is this a game-breaking error or is it a mundane case of a few characters being left out?

This is just an issue with the missile design display.

[MarcAFK]

I've researched two different technologies now that do not act as if they have been researched.

The first was a fuel production upgrade.   When I looked at sorium harvesters after the research was concluded, the numbers all reflected the previous level of research.   This eventually went away when I researched the next level of fuel production.

I just finished Magnetic Confinement engine tech, and the option to use it does not appear in the design menu.   I would proceed as I did before, and research the next level of engine tech, however it gets very expensive at this point and I wouldn't be able to use my newest engine tech for several years, which is. . . uncomfortable.

Have you closed and reopened the design window? Many pages will need you to do this when new tech or something is added to the database, for instance when you create a new colony the production window won't even show that colony unless the window gets refreshed....

[necropolis]

Yes.   I have reopened every window, including the game itself.   Refreshed, changed design screens and back, made certain the new technology appears under Completed, made certain that I couldn't use SM mode to re-research it, or take it away and give it back, had the scientist who developed the technology develop another tech in the same field, and still the technology does not show up in the design menu.   The same as the previous tech did not reflect in actual fuel production.

[Vandermeer]

Can you upload your stevefire.mdb somewhere, so it can be checked? In a 6.4x game where I reached and surpassed this tech level, there was no problem, but who knows what is causing this.

[Whitecold]

Cosmetic Bug: When I change the abbreviation of ground unit types, this does not seem to stick, the trained units retain the official, original abbreviation.

[necropolis]

hxxp: silverglassworks. com/Stevefire. mdb