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Published on June 15, 2005 By darkhelmet_OG In Bug Reports
I don't remember which pahse I was supposed to give this type of bug report, but I figure it can't hurt to post them anyways...

- On the difficulty selection scrolling through you can goto cakewalk to crippeling, but not crippeling to cakewalk.
- If military spending is set to 0% when you hit build the pop-up dialogue says -1 yearss to build and the other areas is shows a very large number(probably max int) probably a divide by 0.
- My game ended cause I was wamming on the turn button and the autosave came up and I kept hitting it, I don't have any logs cause I wasn't runing smart exception or anything, will test out further later.

A few other things I noticed.

The default custom race screen leave the ship really dark on my screen, it was kinda hard to see there was a ship there at all, maby some lighter default colors would just look a little nicer at first.

The buildings on planets are faded out while they are qued up, but also when they are finished they still seem faded... I think finished buildings should not be faded at all so its easier to distinguise between whatsdone and not.

Nothing else comes to mind right now... seems A LOT more stable and was fun to play... I'm going to test it out more when I have some more time for sure!

Hmmm... the game crashed on me and the music is still playing as well... probably and issue with my comp, just thought I would add that in.

Comments
on Jun 16, 2005
Nothing else comes to mind right now... seems A LOT more stable and was fun to play... I'm going to test it out more when I have some more time for sure!


Funny, I found Beta1 to be solid as a rock, but I'm getting loads of crashes on Beta2!

I'm suffering from what appears to be random crashing at the moment, most often when I attempt to create a new game though. I get dumped to the desktop and a "report this error to microsoft" dialog pops up. So far I really cant point to a cause. I did find once that after I left the game running for 5 or ten minutes and came back, it had locked up. I'm running updated graphics drivers on an nvidia Geforce FX 5600XT. I haven't a clue what's going on atm, which is annoying as I can't desribe the symptoms in a useful way! Will keep an eye on it, think I should start taking notes of what I'm doing when it does it.

I agree with the custom race screen point, the default colours are black against a star background, so you cant tell what you're looking at. Maybe change hull default to white or grey?
on Jun 16, 2005

Thanks for the feedback DH...we'll log those bugs and try to get them fixed for the next build!

on Jun 16, 2005
It seems to me that the starport should let you stop production.. couldn't stop building. Also Everytime I tried to creat a modified race, even when (maybe especially when) I canceled it and used the default human alliance the screen went half black and stopped (not froze).

Really miss those constructors. Should transports be able to land on alien worlds? Hostile takeover stuff?
on Jun 16, 2005
Ohhh, the music thing was my fault... I didn't turn on my spekaers till I got in the game and I guess I forgot my gamecube was on and hooked up to my sound-in... I guess I got confused about the music being that in the game or something... haha.

Yea, I forgot, the ability to stop production of hips would definatly be nice.