ship build bug in RELEASE VERSION

Steevodeevo, were you playing a metaverse or regular game?

Unfortunatly we did discover a really odd bug when ships are designed with too many of the same part in a certain order. This will be fixed in one of (if not the first) update.

Sorry steeveo

Just wondering, when will the first patch come out? Is it the patch that Brad refers to on his list of known bugs? Dont want you guys to rush the patch or anything. That always leads to more bugs and unsolved problems

Cari - campaign game, non meta I think.

Boogie - sounds like the issue right there, I slammed 3 sensors on the ship originally then went back to upgrade and the plan was to remove two of em' and use the space for a nice new shield. Nice to hear u guys r on teh case. I'll just avoid it for a little while.

game feels nice and polished otherwise, so far.

We will probably have an update either later this week or next week based on feedback.

I have my own laundry list of things I'd like to do. (when *I* play the game it's in the debugger so I'm always making tweaks).

I experienced about the same crash as Steevodeevo. When designing a ship I couldn't save it. When I clicked save nothing would happen. After clicking on done not saving the ship I return to the map and then it still wants to save the ship. When I click on save, it's a CTD.

Posted this elsewhere cause I couldn't find this thread again. I've gotten past a couple levels of campain and am now in a sandbox game with this workaround...

Link

I've had some problems as well with trying to alter/upgrade existing ship designs, mostly with multiple items of the same type, and trying to remove those... For example, lasers or scanners, if i would click on their icons in that horizontal area where u can see all the current items on the design, if i picked one there and hit remove it often wouldnt work... No CTD though.

Another (different) issue I had was at one point i had a certain ship in the game (not a type, just one individual unit) that wouldnt go into any fleets, no matter what i did... Logisitics was fine but he wouldnt budge. He was an upgraded fella tho... (an F-1A Fury upgraded to F-1B status )

Speaking of upgrading, do i have to move a ship off a planet to upgrade it? I couldnt find any way to upgrade when a ship was in orbit of a planet. Or is there a shortcut key ?

I also have a problem with building ships. The altarian tiny ship design has all harpoints facing in the same direction (to the right) Though there are rotating functions and a flip function, there isn't one that can rotate the hardpoint around it's base, rather than along it's side. Maybe you could implement this feature?

I hope you can fix this soon. Now I'm forced to either build very weird ships IMO, or abandon my game and start another one with another ship set.

Honduras

encountered another a bug with designing ships. during an early Metaverse Game when the report showed up showing what stuff my planets build this round I used "Go to" to enter the planet screen of one of my planets. then entered the shipyard and tried to create a new design. I placed everything I wanted (hull, weapons, shields, engine...) and was at 27/28 space usage. I entered a name and hit save. however the design wasnt saved. When I hit done he warned me that unsaved stuff would get lost. I exited the shipyard, reentered and tried again. same result. I couldnt save the design. so after a while I left the planet and returned to the report wanting to check my other planets. then suddenly a pop up appeared telling me my design was saved (outside the shipyard at that moment). then the game encountered a critical error and threw me back to desktop.

I've had this too, but I know what's happening. The save window spawns behind another window.

Solution, have no in-game windows open when creating a ship.

I've had this too, but I know what's happening. The save window spawns behind another window.

I've had this too (I also posted this in the other thread). But it was in the beta. And I had the same "diagnosis" as Honduras stated.
I've sent the crash report and the smart exception to stardock (even got a reply, in where it was assumed it had been fixed)

(it was late january I think)

encountered another a bug with designing ships. during an early Metaverse Game when the report showed up showing what stuff my planets build this round I used "Go to" to enter the planet screen of one of my planets. then entered the shipyard and tried to create a new design. I placed everything I wanted (hull, weapons, shields, engine...) and was at 27/28 space usage. I entered a name and hit save. however the design wasnt saved. When I hit done he warned me that unsaved stuff would get lost. I exited the shipyard, reentered and tried again. same result. I couldnt save the design. so after a while I left the planet and returned to the report wanting to check my other planets. then suddenly a pop up appeared telling me my design was saved (outside the shipyard at that moment). then the game encountered a critical error and threw me back to desktop.

Wow, that's exactly the same sequence that I encountered yesterday. For now I'll take the advice mentioned and never go into ship design with any windows open.

I've got the shipyard CTD problem like so many others.

Creater custom ship -> save (nothing happens) -> done (exits to galaxy view) -> new ship window (add a story for it) -> CTD


2,66 gHz
ati 9800pro
driver 6.2, directX 9c
1Gb ram

I too have the same problems as Coplann, Honduras, and roscoe. I can only be thankful for auto save.

I played an entire game on a medium map and NEVER experienced this ship build problem. I was redesigning my ships all of the time. I have just started a new game and cannot upgrade my colony ships with more engines. Everytime I save the design......boom.......crash.

Crashing on me at ship building as well. When I try and save my new design it locks up and does a CTD. THen I still have to bring up the Task Manager and kill the frozen program that way.

I had problems resizing at first but only due to being retarded. Crashed 3 times in a half hour last night but PC had an uptime of 4 days, restarted and reloading fixed it instantly. No more crashes!

Had the same problem with the ship design CTD. Designed ship, hit save, wouldn't save so hit done, exit design, show description window, CTD.