v2.5.1 Bugs Thread

[skoormit]

Also, something I tried to do in one of my games is make a general purpose Colony Ship that can carry Cargo as well as Population. The roleplay idea was that the ship can carry needed materials along with the colonists to help get them started... However whenever I ask the Colony ship to load resources I get the error "[Fleet Name] was not able to load [Resource] from [Planet]" where the fleet name is the fleet that the colony ship is in. It's just the one ship in the fleet, no other ships. Cargo ships are able to load it just fine. Is this working as intended? I know that the game is intended as a story engine and so I thought that allowing Colony Ships to transport other stuff along with people would be thematic.

I use colony ships that carry population and cargo.
Do you have cargo holds? Are they full?
Do you have cargo shuttles?
 

[shatterstar]

I use colony ships that carry population and cargo.
Do you have cargo holds? Are they full?
Do you have cargo shuttles?
 

Yes I have 50 KT cargo holds on them, which are empty, and 2 cargo shuttles on them. (the whole reason i designed them this way was so that they could easily be refitted into cargo ships and so cargo ships could be built from their tooled shipyards and i had to think of something to justify keeping those cargo shuttles on them).

[mental__monkey]

Hi  all!
Immediately upon loading I get the following sequence of  errors

2.5.1  Function #483: file is  encrypted or  is not a database
file is encrypted or  is not a  database

OK

2.5.1 Function ~139: Object reference not set to an  instance of an  object
2.5.1 Function ~138: Object reference not set to an  instance of an  object
2.5.1 Function ~142: Object reference not set to an  instance of an  object

This last error loops pops up  every time I press 'ok'

The window affected  - these are pop ups but impact the whole game, it can't be played
What you were doing at the time  - first booting up  the game
Conventional or TN start  - first booting up  the game
Random or Real Stars   - first booting up  the game
Is your decimal separator a comma? - I have decimal separator, have checked calculator and excel to be sure
Is the bug is easy to reproduce, intermittent or a one-off? - Identical  every time I  start the game 
If this is a long campaign - say 75 years or longer - let me know the length of the campaign as well  - first booting up  the game, no campaign.

Thanks in advance for any help and sorry if this is a solved issue - have looked around to find  a solution but no dice.

[Louella]

What is Function #115 ?
It says "object reference not set to instance of an object"

[Garfunkel]

Hi  all!
Immediately upon loading I get the following sequence of  errors

2.5.1  Function #483: file is  encrypted or  is not a database
file is encrypted or  is not a  database

OK

2.5.1 Function ~139: Object reference not set to an  instance of an  object
2.5.1 Function ~138: Object reference not set to an  instance of an  object
2.5.1 Function ~142: Object reference not set to an  instance of an  object

This last error loops pops up  every time I press 'ok'

The window affected  - these are pop ups but impact the whole game, it can't be played
What you were doing at the time  - first booting up  the game
Conventional or TN start  - first booting up  the game
Random or Real Stars   - first booting up  the game
Is your decimal separator a comma? - I have decimal separator, have checked calculator and excel to be sure
Is the bug is easy to reproduce, intermittent or a one-off? - Identical  every time I  start the game 
If this is a long campaign - say 75 years or longer - let me know the length of the campaign as well  - first booting up  the game, no campaign.

Thanks in advance for any help and sorry if this is a solved issue - have looked around to find  a solution but no dice.

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As to your problem, it sounds like you did not unpack the game. When you download the game, it is packaged into an RAR archive/package. You need a file compression/decompression program to unpack it. I recommend 7-Zip as it is freeware and handles pretty much every possible archive type known to man. Unpack the archive into a C:\Games\Aurora folder or something similar, not inside Program Files.

[nakorkren]

Playing version 2.5.1. Several salvos of enemy AMMs are still showing up on the map despite the launching ship exiting the system. Each salvo says it contains 0 missiles. I've advanced time several days and it's still showing.

[paolot]

v 2.5.1.
Dot "." as the decimal point.
TN start.
Real stars.

Sometimes, randomly, after 60 or 70 years in the game, clicking on a colony in the list on the left of the Economics window, I get this error message:
Function #2198: Value was either too large or too small for a Decimal.

I'm now around year 80 and it continues to present.
It appears twice.
Clicking OK, it disappears and the game proceeds normally.
If, after it, I click on another colony, it doesn't appear.
But clicking again the previous colony, it appears.
After running the turn, it can repeat or disappear, without any other sign. But anyway, in few turns it disappears, to return randomly.
What does the function #2198 do?

I searched in Google, and the first result says that this error "while executing a SQL query, typically occurs when the data being retrieved or manipulated in the SQL operation is outside the range that can be represented by a Decimal data type in .NET."
If it can help, I can report the address of the page of this text.
Thank you for an explanation.

[skoormit]

On the Commanders window, with Academy Commandant selected in the dropdown for assignment types, the assignment list only includes assignments for which the currently selected officer is eligible, even if the "Eligible Only" checkbox is not ticked.

[nakorkren]

Summar log says "Ground Units Hi 7 Ground Units Destroyed 6", but detailed logs only show one unit destroyed. I did have "Show All Events" ticked. It seems to be repeatable, here's a 2nd instance of it happening not long after. Am I just misunderstatnding something, or is this a bug?

[nuclearslurpee]

Summar log says "Ground Units Hi 7 Ground Units Destroyed 6", but detailed logs only show one unit destroyed. I did have "Show All Events" ticked. It seems to be repeatable, here's a 2nd instance of it happening not long after. Am I just misunderstatnding something, or is this a bug?

This is not quite a bug, more of a glitch in the system. It happens because for some reason, the game calculates the shots against an element of the targeted formation, calculates hits and kills, displays that kills value to the player, and then subtracts from the target formation and reports (in a different message) the number of units actually destroyed, which may be fewer than the previous calculation if the element had very few units remaining.

It's particularly hilarious when your overeager beavers report destroying 3,026 enemy headquarters in one go. 

[tessro]

I ran into this bug (first reported in v2.5.0) today in v2.5.1: https://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=13419.msg167533#msg167533

Tractoring a shipyard caused it to transfer to an "Alien Race" identical to my own. It occurred immediately after the shipyard was towed from Earth. This was the first time I attempted to tractor a shipyard in this game. The new race has the same name, images, etc. and I am allied with it. (Diplomacy Rating 10,000)

• Conventional start
• Real stars
• 141 years of play (start year 2024)

Here is the db, saved right when the event occurred: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17brqtodlXPQhFBfh-SH758kL4JCWbbzT/view?usp=drive_link

[Louella]

Genetic Modification cannot be stopped

Seems like once you start modifying a species on a planet, it will continue to convert the population, and pressing "stop" on the industry screen does not work. The only way to stop conversion of the population is to scrap the genetic modification centres.

[nakorkren]

Very benign bug, but a little confusing: When you create "Future Prototype" that includes tech you haven't researched yet you get an event saying "Research into XYZ COMPNENT completed". Instead it should say "A Prototype of XYZ COMPONENT has been created", or even better "A Future Prototype of...".

[nakorkren]

Having just conquered a major mining colony in the enemy's home system, my forces reviewed their new home and discovered there were ~300 automines plus 11 CMCs, and I was automatically paying for the minerals. A little strange, seems like those CMCs should be "nationalized" since I captured them, or at least I should get a wealth bonus for "selling" them to a comercial venture, but whatever, not a bug.

A few turns later (within days), my enemy civilization plants a NEW civilian mining colony with 3 more CMCs, a DST, and a mass driver, along with a new garrison. This seems like it should not be able to happen, since, ya know, I just destroyed 250ktons of enemy army and seized the prior CMC. I don't mind the extra CMCs, but... not really logical that it would happen. Maybe the selection of whether or not to create a new CMC should take into account the presence of a hostile force?

[nakorkren]

The squadron size calculations appear to be incorrect. I have a squadron that's showing as 7800 tons of military hulls, but it's actually 7860. This caused me quite some confusion when trying to load two additional 82 ton scouts, of which only one would fit. That one is now in it's own squadron showing as 50 tons of military hulls, despite being 82 tons.