v1.8.0 Bugs Thread 1.8.0bugs

[Steve Walmsley (OP)]

I've found the communication bug. The NPRs never actually initiated communication (the equivalent of the player clicking the Communicate button).

[skoormit]

I've found the communication bug. The NPRs never actually initiated communication (the equivalent of the player clicking the Communicate button).

So you are saying that it's a bug that the bugs don't bug us?

[Marski]

This might be WAI - I don't think commercial hangar bays can reload military ships, though I could be wrong. Instead of landing the ships try using the ordnance transfer system onboard the station like you would with a collier.

I haven't found a statement that they can't.

[Guridan]

Getting a lot of error messages with "Function #858: Attempted to divide by zero" when passing time on the tactical map.  Happens again when I save and restart the game.
1. 8 Random stars, TN start with 1 NPR, 10 years into the game
Using UK windows settings

DB attached

[DoctorDanny]

I've taken a planet from a precursor civilization.

Landed my own colonists on the planet.
It now has political status 'occupied'  or 'subjugated' and unrest increases without military presence.

There's no aliens left alive on the planet though...

[RedDagger]

I took a gander at DIM_PlanetaryTerrain in the database, I think I spotted a typo.

[Steve Walmsley (OP)]

I took a gander at DIM_PlanetaryTerrain in the database, I think I spotted a typo.

Not sure what you are looking at, but that isn't the table from the normal Aurora.db. Do you have some type of mod running?

[Steve Walmsley (OP)]

I've taken a planet from a precursor civilization.

Landed my own colonists on the planet.
It now has political status 'occupied'  or 'subjugated' and unrest increases without military presence.

There's no aliens left alive on the planet though...

That is working as intended as it is the alien colony. There is nothing to stop you creating your own colony though on the same planet.

[RedDagger]

I took a gander at DIM_PlanetaryTerrain in the database, I think I spotted a typo.

Not sure what you are looking at, but that isn't the table from the normal Aurora. db.  Do you have some type of mod running?

I extracted the data from DIM_PlanetaryTerrain and put in a spreadsheet to see it more easily.  Here a print of the table.

[SpikeTheHobbitMage]

I took a gander at DIM_PlanetaryTerrain in the database, I think I spotted a typo.

Not sure what you are looking at, but that isn't the table from the normal Aurora.db. Do you have some type of mod running?

The bug they are reporting is that Forested Rift Valley has a different minimum temperature from the other Forested types.

It looks like RD ran a joined query to make better sense of the data rather than just a raw dump.  It is also sorted by name instead of TerrainID, but the numbers look the same.  The two left-most columns are also from a different table, which fits with this being a screenshot of a spreadsheet.

[skoormit]

This might be WAI - I don't think commercial hangar bays can reload military ships, though I could be wrong. Instead of landing the ships try using the ordnance transfer system onboard the station like you would with a collier.

I haven't found a statement that they can't.

In fact, this post explicitly says that commercial hangars can reload box launchers.

They are intended for transport of other commercial vessels, temporary transport of military vessels, reloading of box launchers and for repairing ships.

[Droll]

This might be WAI - I don't think commercial hangar bays can reload military ships, though I could be wrong. Instead of landing the ships try using the ordnance transfer system onboard the station like you would with a collier.

I haven't found a statement that they can't.

In fact, this post explicitly says that commercial hangars can reload box launchers.

They are intended for transport of other commercial vessels, temporary transport of military vessels, reloading of box launchers and for repairing ships.

Well thats me cooked

[skoormit]

Well thats me cooked

Say what now?
Is this a Britishism I've not heard before?

[DoctorDanny]

I've taken a planet from a precursor civilization.

Landed my own colonists on the planet.
It now has political status 'occupied'  or 'subjugated' and unrest increases without military presence.

There's no aliens left alive on the planet though...

That is working as intended as it is the alien colony. There is nothing to stop you creating your own colony though on the same planet.

How do I do that?
AFAIK there's a single colony (mine) that's human species. The aliens were precursors.
I tried clicking 'create colony' on the system window, but I dont seem to get another colony.

Will I need to remove the previous one first?

[Steve Walmsley (OP)]

Function #1821: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

Scenario: Epsilon Indi system ground combat against precursor outpost defenders - initial precursor force 20k tons and 2k STO, friendly ground forces is a mechanized assault brigade consisting of mostly mechanized with some armoured forces at around 100k tons (including logistics). STOs are firing at a battlecruiser in orbit and missing and orbiting warships are not doing any form of orbital bombardment.

Ground forces have 80 CAS fighters in orbit on ground support missions. 24 of those fighters are committed to supporting 2 armoured companies and 2 mechanized companies - all 4 of those formations are on frontline attack.

The exception is thrown every combat round - it seems to be preventing any CAS from firing since they still have all their ordnance - ground combat continued until 600 tons of enemy was left but would not progress further (telling the CAS to stop fixed it and the outpost was conquered). Similar exceptions also thrown when CAS fighters are on other ground missions.
Each CAS fighter consists of 2 size 12 strafing pods, 1 size 12 bombardment pod and 1 size 12 AtA pod. There are no precursor ground fighters present.

DB attached - planet of interest is Epsilon indi A-IV, the fighters should already be set to ground support so just play it for the next 8 hours and see what happens.

Edit: I just swapped out the AtA pods for a second bombardment pod - same result, its not because the AtA can't shoot at any fighters.

Authors note: When you have a lot of fighters giving support it becomes incredibly time consuming and tedious to assign them to their formations - i think you should make it so that fighters on ground support are automatically distributed to FFDs (6 per) that are in formations doing frontline attack (and maybe extend that to frontline defence too) and leave the fine tuning up to the player. This could also allow extra fighters to automatically replace downed ones as combat progresses.

P.S: If this is a problem I can work around without getting the next patch please let me know, like if its the AtA pods not having a valid target I'll just swap it out for another pod.

Second problem: I unnasigned the CAS to continue combat and now everytime I try to open ground OOB during combat I get:
Function #2355: Object reference not set to an instance of an object - this is preventing me from opening the ground OOB tab and persists beyond the ground combat (saving the game seems to have fixed the persistence but not the cause. I had also sent all fleets home so idk how I prevented the error from being thrown everytime I opened the OOB)
Edit: I think the second problem is related to unassigning fighters from supporting a formation - the references aren't being cleaned up properly.

The 1821 was caused by code that allowed the parent formations of formations attacked by CAS to respond with AA fire. Unfortunately, the code did not allow for the parent formation not to exist. Thanks for the DB.

2355 is the code that opens windows from the toolbar. Not sure that is throwing an error.