I have a save game file for the post-conquer population explosion glitch. I've reproduced it three times so far. Go ahead and conquer the Dregnin homeworld with Information Warfare. Each time I've conquered it it has had it's population explode to ~4 million billions. It takes some luck to win the battle and I had to load the game a few times to conquer. I don't have hosting at the moment so I put it on yousendit:

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This is a glitch that I found last week and it is still in the new 1.0X

When researching the prerequisite techs for the core ships, I was curious to see the appearance of the various pre-made models. Well I can only create the line of core ships from the Beam Weapon line of ships, Star Fury etc. The Mass Driver and Missile based core ships do not unlock in the buy window, etc. even with their prerequisite techs researched.

For example, I research Xeno Ind. Theory which is a prereq. for Missile Boat, Sniper, and Star Fury. Then I research lasers and the Star Fury can now be built. Then I research the stinger 2, but the Missile Boats never show up. Same with the mass driver tech.

I checked several more times by varying the order, trying stingers before the other two tech lines, and mass drivers before the other two, but they are still unavailable. I even tried researching the weapon techs before the Xeno Ind. Theory tech. Doesn't work.

I can progress past the Star Fury platform and build the Battle Axe and Phoenix, though I didn't try going further than that. This isn't a big issue for me as I only use custom ships, but there are others who have asked how to make the other core ships and this may be part of the reason why they are having trouble.

It is a credit to the quality of this game that I am enjoying testing this stuff almost as much as playing it, the complexity is amazing. Kudos.

I hate the moving one ship or fleet causes another ship or fleet to also move glitch. It is testing my profanity skills, they are still good though. I am going to judo practice on Monday and someone is going down because of this.

I have also run into the one ship that can't be added to a fleet.

Please, please fix this ship moving thing soon.

Planet city lights don't seem to show up consistently or at all. Personally, I have never seen any planet city lights, regardless of populations/technological advancement.
This is more of an observation, so I can't think of a specific set of instructions to reproduce it. However, in my case, all I need to do is play a game for a while and then notice that there are no lights anywhere.

Oh, one other minor graphics glitch.

Saturn doesn't always have rings - that is, sometimes the planet is bigger than the rings and they are apparently *inside* the planet so they don't show up. Pretty easy to reproduce - pick any map settings as the Terrans and keep hitting Ctrl+N until Saturn looks naked. I've also noticed that Saturn occasionally doesn't even show up and Sol only has 4 planets.

Save game problem:

On reloading a saved game:

(1) All tech reseerch and production stop.

(2) Whatever was being produced for that turn, if completed, does not get a GNN notification, so the build queue goes empty.

Lol, I have a forum icon for cakewalk even though I haven't sumbitted a single metaverse game. I am in an empire though.

I don't think that impatience has anything to do with it. This happened to me tonight when I was reloading from a previous CTD that occurred when I saved a modified ship design. I have seen and read about crashes caused by virtually every activity in the game. I have yet to finish a playing session without a CTD, and it is getting really tiring. I just posted another problem that I also sent to Stardock Support.

I don't know if this belongs here or in the In-Game thread: there is no Uninstall, at least for my downloaded game. I downloaded the game (now ver 1.0X) but also bought the disk. I have been having a lot of problems with CTDs, so I decided to uninstall and try re-installing using the disk. Problem: there is no Uninstall button or icon, and when I tried to uninstall from Windows Control Panel I received an error message ("Could not find INSTALL.LOG file"). I hesitate to install over the possibly corrupt version on my computer.

Suggestions?

Problem: there is no Uninstall button or icon, and when I tried to uninstall from Windows Control Panel I received an error message ("Could not find INSTALL.LOG file"). I hesitate to install over the possibly corrupt version on my computer.

Before someone suggests I look in the Totalgaming/GalCiv2/ directory for the uninstall button, I did, found it, and it doesn't work either. That just takes me to a browser looking for the (apparently non-existent) install log.

The problem remains. Suggestions?

#43 by Citizen Benjamin Lunoe Sunday, March 05, 2006 3:25 AM I have a glitch/technical issue that, while it does not prevent me from playing the game, is really nasty and decreases my enjoyment of it:

Change your region (regional settings in the Control Panel) to English (US).

I noticed the following bug in 1.0D1:
* After the colonisation event that increases planetary defense, the bonus doesn't show up in the planet bonus area.

I played through some of the campaign while waiting for the new patch and noticed some typos and oddities:
* Siege mission end game summary overview victory. It's written "Our troops quckly...".
* Achilles Heel mission briefing. The end of the first paragraph is missing a '.' (don't remember the english word)
* Same mission. All three allies uses random sandbox greetings. The altarians told me for example how nice it was to meet my race for the first time. Would be nice if you included some mission-specific greetings in this mission too.
* Same mission. I have trade and can research advanced trade, yet neither of them show up in the techtree.
* Typo in Mission1a_Text.xml, "Let us work together of fight off the vile machines."
* Typo in Mission5a_Text.xml, "We will have to strengthen our missiles to couter-balance this.

Another weird thing is that the Drengin and Yor usually are complaining that they are losing the battle as soon as the mission begins. Doesn't make much sense.

There is also a typo when you select ethical alignment. In the evil description, propaganda is misspelled propagana.

Multiple things, I have had the 'can't fleet up' and 'fleets won't move for consecutive turns' already described by others. The 'can't fleet up' glitch makes me unable to sometimes fleet one ship up with another, withing the logistics limit that is, and some times the glitch even creates a 'empty fleet' which stacked on the other ships (a empty sqaure with a logistics count of 0).

The 'fleets won't move for consecutive turns' glicth I had too, though in my case those fleets wouldn't move for longer then two turns. Sometimes I just destroyed my ships because they were useless. I had it in a game where I had quite some ships, and the problem seemed to be that the game didn't return the movement to the fleet in a new turn, because after waiting a turn and clicking the fleet again it said, without having moved at all, that it had 0/x moves left. Very irritating in a war...

Another one: The screens sometimes starts scrolling upwards or sidewards automatically. I can stop it by entering a planet screen and exciting it again.

Something that happened once was that after I loaded the game, the planet tyles were all weird: My constructions were partially build on sea tiles. This was the case with multiple planets, though I only had it once.