Dead units with sensor reveal the map forever. There is a cheesey exploit to be had with this in wartime. Think about it.

I remember seeing something about this on the boards before, but I can't find it now:

Insane pirate ships. Not just pirate ships with the most advanced weapons, but pirates ships with more equipment than is possible, in fleets with more ships than is possible. I was playing in a gigantic galaxy on cakewalk with the Terrans (I wanted to actually try researching everything, and I did). I saw a fleet of pirate ships with overf 7000 hps, 36 ships (at least 12 of them were huge, probably more), and all of their weapons and defenses were in the 100s, some maybe over 1000, except for Point Defense. I tried building a fleet of tiny ships with black hole guns, 17 ships in all, a combined attack of like 650 missile, and I think they took out maybe three of them. Like I said, I had everything, including Hyperion Logistic and Miniaturization, but my forces were miniscule compared to theirs.

I wouldn't mind strong, annoying pirates, but they should be limited to logistics and miniaturizations by their " tech level " only, with no racial bonuses. It would also be nice if they were more spread out. And if they moved of their own volition, not just attacking things they can see, but seeking out trade routes and such.

I created huge custom ship design, called it "Dreadnought" and the game wouldn't let me save it. It said something like "you cannot modify a core design". But there is no core design that I could see called dreadnought, is there? Maybe you guys used to have a core design called dreadnought and the didn't get all the code out and the game thinks it's still there?

Just try designing a huge ship and trying giving it that name and see what happens.

CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2200+ Thoroughbred B
Motherboard: EPoX 8RDA+ (latest BIOS)
GPU: ATI Radeon 9700 Pro (latest driver)
Sound: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum eX (latest driver)
Memory: 2x 512MB Kingston Hyper-X Transport DDR400 PC3200
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 (latest http://www.windowsupdate.com updates)

While playing "Dread Lords on Parade", the TURN button in the lower righthand corner of the screen will disappear. This happens every time the Dread Lords first assault and conquer a new planet within view of my explored area. I have had this happen three times in a row, on different galaxy sizes, in different games. Reloading the game from my last save, or from Autosave, does not help as the TURN button is still missing after loading is complete.

When ships are on-top of each other everything seems to get screwed up, someone must have mentioned this but just incase ... here goes. Lets take three ships A B and C, they are all on the same tile. You select ship A and move it , it moves to its new spot, it is shown to be selected but the information shown is that of ship C. Now go select ship B, ship A is still shown to be selected and you now also have ship B selected. A and B are on two seperate tiles (both show as selected) and the information shown is for ship C, now move ship B to a different location and ship A also moves to that location. Confused, I sure was until figured out what was happening, if I have a bunch of ships on the same tile and want to move one, I have to select the ship, move it away from the other ships and then select it again to be sure.

EDIT correction on one point there, if you have a stack of ships and you select one ship and move it, the information on the bottom menu shows the information of what was left behind not what you have selected. If you then select another ship from the stack via menu or right click, the first ship you selected remains selected so you end up with two ships in two different locations both selected at the same time.
I was sending out ships in different directions from a stack and they all just ended up giong to same place.

firstly let me say, what an excellent game. i`ve not been this addicted to a game in years.

anyways, a few bugs i have come across.

when you start a new game, the page where you can normally choose how many opponents you want and their intelligence level, sometimes doesn't let me choose the number of my opponents or their intellegence level.

not sure if this is a bug or not. i was at war with one of the species, when suddenly they surrender and give me all their planets. errrr, i never had a ship in space, and they could have crushed me like a bug.

If you start in a planet display screen, select the "Build Ships" option to go to the starport screen. select the proper ship to build, and then select "Back to Planet", the ship building order is lost.

on campaign misiion 4.
update 1.0x
windows xp pro sp2

after being beaten down for the 20th time on that level decided to restart again
program error popped up stating:

Microsoft Visual C++ Runtim Library
Runtime Error!
Program: c:\programfiles\stardock\....\galciv2.exe
R6025
-pure virtual function call

so umm yeah. little help please.

I'm not sure if this has been reported here..

But there is an event where an 'evil force' is affecting one of your planets

weather you destroy the colony or ignore it.. a few turns later a message pops up saying "Draginol has been destroyed"

So whatever Draginol is supposed to spawn as isn't working.

Basic race bonuses (as in, those that canno be changed) disappearing after adding further bonuses. At the moment, the only way to fix this is working out what bonuses you want and then adding it into the 'customraceX' files. Oddly, though, the logistics bonus is the only one that doesn't disappear.

I have been reading the bugs for hours. Seems kind of funny to see so many problems but such is life.

OK, I don't believe I have seen this one posted yet, but it happened to me and I need to post it.

I was advancing to the next turn, when I hit the space bar just as the vote for the senate screen popped up. I tried to return to the government screens to see if I could do the vote for party leadership. And what do I see?

The next election will be held in 4294967293 weeks.

Well I tried to quit game and reload. That did not work. I also took a couple turns hoping it would work itself out and that did not work either. Though it was counting down, as it should have.

Fix? How about letting the player do the election at any time during the turn. Or possibly a pop up saying do you want to cancel elections? Y/N Of course if you would deny the people the right to vote then the game should have a revolt or a change in government immediately. Either way there should be a fix for this because if you skip or close the election screen there is no way back.

I also had a video crash a couple hours before this even though I had updated all my drivers. I am running a radeon x300 with 128 Meg memory if that helps any.

I really hate to see so many problems because I have been waiting for years for someone to get this right. I will say that out of all the attempts by people making 4x games that I somehow trust you will get the bugs out and have this game working, as it should be.

Overall, I am really enjoying this game, but I too have some of the previously posted bugs which are very annoying when they occur. I am running Ver. 1.0X, and I did not notice these bugs before I upgraded. So far I have been playing the campaign, and don't know if these would appear in a "sand box" game.

1). Multiple ships remaining selected ... especially if I have just disbanded a fleet and moved one of the ships away. It remains selected as well as one or more of the others from the disbanded fleet even though they are no longer in the same tile. Attempting to move the one ship moves both it and the others. I find that when I see these multiple ships selected I can sometimes click somewhere on an empty tile to deselect all then reselect the one I want. Sometimes that does not work, and I end up clicking on the FIND button to cycle through until I get the one I want by itself.

2). "Frozen" ships, or ships (fleets in my case) not having their movement reset when clicking the TURN button. I have saved games (if that would help you) where 3 fleets would not move for 15 to 20 turns or more, then suddenly were able to move again.

3). At the same time as 2). above was occurring another nearby fleet had a possibly related problem. I was using it for a series of attacks on some stacked Dred Lord ships. Each successive attack would decrease my remaining moves by one as expected, then suddenly after one attack the remaining moves dropped from 15 to zero when it should have dropped to 14. This happened two or three times with that particular fleet during the time the others were "frozen".

Although these bugs are annoying, Gal Civ II is an excellent game, and has taken up far too many hours of my time which will probably continue for awhile.