Kind of silly, but if you try to load a zero byte savegame, the program will crash. (It crashed durring save, and I was hoping that it would be good), only later did I notice that the save was zero bytes.

This is with 1.0x

After the latest patch, the game seems to innacurately estimate the time it takes to complete improvements.

To see this, start a new game with the default humans, then switch spending and social to 100%. Try to build a series of factories. Alternately, buy the first one outright. Either way, it will say that it will take one week to complete, but in reality will take two.

Apologies if these have been mentioned before.

Here is what I have found so far:

The default Tiny Terran Hull has a couple of misaligned hardpoints. At least one is impossible to fix. I am sure there are some others on different hulls, but this one shows up pretty early. An official way of allowing more control over how hardpoints are realligned would solve the issue.

When calculating ship strength mining starbases often are pronounced the strongest. While mostly harmless I did run into an instance where the Altarians gifted me their most powerful ship to fight off the Drengin...this turned out to be a mining starbase...not sure that is what they had in mind. This probably could be fixed by disqualifying starbases in that calculation.

In the Yor’s diplomatic viewscreen a white screen flashes every 10 seconds. Probably just a missing frame in the video.

Mentioned in a separate post but there seems to be some music files in the event music folder that are not utilized. I know for sure that the SPY.mp3 doesn’t come up during an espionage announcement.

Some effects seem to be misaligned in the battle viewer. The engine contrails seem to come from the center of the ship instead of the back and I have seen Mass Drivers ‘hit’ a ship well in front of it.

Had an instance where a race with which I had 3 trade routes surrendered to a race with which I was at war. Oddly the trade routes staid until they were individually destroyed by raiders.

Had a glitch pop up twice where ships that I launched from orbit would not fleet up even though the logistics was there. It wouldn’t give me an error message or anything it just didn’t take effect.

I keep seeing starbases that have not been upgraded strewn about the map. This is probably to extend the range of a race’s ships, but it would seem designing ships with more range would be more efficient. I could be wrong.

Various typos are strewn about the game. Nothing earth shattering, but worth mentioning. Especially the ones that refer to a bonus or some rule that doesn’t actually exist as this can be confusing.

Of course there is the issue with ships getting a double move if you fleet up with ships that have different movement points available. This is better than a fleet losing a turn though.

It goes without saying that the only reason I mention any of this is to make the game that much better. Even a great game can never have too much polish.

Sometime into the game, for no reason i can find (ive read the manual and any peice of ingame literature i can find regarding construction and moral etc), Earth can no longer create ships.. when ever i select a ship to build it sits there for ever on "0 weeks"
Ive tried to work around this by deleting the space yard, saving and loading and building a new one and such but no luck.. am i missing something?

Don't know if this has come up or whatever but I cant read through all these posts...

When I try to attack an enemy fleet with one of my own, the battle screen doesn't come up and my fleet, which is supposed to be attacking, just sits there and does nothing.

The "menu" becomes unavailable as well and if I press "turn" it disappears and doesn't come back making the game essentially frozen even though I can use the mouse and move the screen and such.

I think it might be an issue with the # of ships in both fleets. Its my only experience or lack there of with a large fleet battle. Smaller battles never had an issue.

Happens everytime no matter how many times I try and reload at various points. I thought it could be a performance issue on my end but I have fairly expensive hardware and 2 gigs of RAM so if that's the case...

What's up?

Reserved characters in Windows are not properly handled when naming a saved game.

Example: You can name a save "..\test" and test.sav will be saved in "C:\Documents and Settings\[User]\My Documents\My Games\"

Another: A : in the name will cause the save to be 0bytes.

Illegal characters are: \ / : * ? " | < >

Game crashed after a couple hundred turns. No idea if or how I can reproduce it. One second I'm playing, the next I'm not. Disappointing. Sorry i can't provide more info. Will wait for the next patch before starting another game on the off chance the problem is fixed already.

1) The point at which population stops growing is not 30% approval as it states in the manual – it wasn’t until I found that my empire had been flat in size for a quarter that I realised that the colour of the approval percentage was indicating whether the pop was growing or not. At least I assume that’s what the colour indicates! Personally I would be happier if population and approval moved up and down more gradually rather than in ‘steps’ as at present so I didn’t have to ‘tweak’ it each turn to get to the right ‘break point’. (BTW I was playing with a custom race with 70% higher growth which might have made a difference?)

2) I can’t upgrade my flagship until I research medium hull size even when I have researched better engines (for example)

Glitch:

I'm running into problems obsoleting ship designs when a ship of the same name exists in another save game file. Also, when I obsolete a ship of one name, and load up my other game with a ship of the same name, the ship "disappears" (loses all it's texture, doesn't show up on the overhead map)

Do you use the ship name as a seed for your "Ship ID?" If so, might I suggest using the created/upgraded time as well? Or perhaps the color scheme?

Save game bug - tried to save a game named something like "Ready for war?" and clicked save, no complaints, no warnings. But game did NOT save. Quit the game thinking I'd saved, some back later and there go a bunch of weeks, conquests etc because the game was NOT in the list. I found the save game folder, it just isn't there.

I can understand if the save game name is the file name, but don't fail silently, please warn us that the game wasn't saved

Great game though, keep up the good work!

2 new issues, they may be already reported but this list is getting too long...

Looked at my "Victory" screen and under influence it said 0% and that you can't win while at war with the Drengin. Funny thing was I don't remember being at war with them. So I looked on my treaties screen it didn't show war, then looked on my relations screen and it said "Hostile" but not "at war". About 10 turns later I got a call from Lord Whatshisface asking for peace.

As a Republic, I attacked another race's planet with a fleet containing 2 ships and a transport. It gave me the pop-up asking if I was sure I wanted to go to war, then the vote screen and the war was voted for. When I clicked done the game seemed to freeze --- I could click around and see things and could move, but I couldn't attack, couldn't upgrade starports. The Finish button, once pushed, dissapeared. I reloaded the game and it did the same thing the next 2 times. What did work was starting the war with a different fleet. Not sure if it was the fact the original had a transport in it, or that I was attacking the home world. BTW, is there a "Declare War" button somewhere?

I've been playing the game for a week or so now, and after a few days, I thought I'd try my hand at designing some ships for myself. I'm not the most creative person, so my designs aren't very good and I stole a lot of elements from the core designs - which aren't upgradeable, so I tried my best to reverse-engineer them from observation to my chagrin. So I had a handful of ship designs.

Then I realised that if a ship had tech on it that I had yet to acquire, I wouldn't be able to access my design! So, no biggie, I figure. I'd just remove all the high-tech parts off my ship design. Unfortunately, it seems that the game "remembers" the highest tech components you've EVER had on that hull, which carries over even if you strip all the components off and resave it. I don't know if this is intentional or not, but the tech requirements for my empty Colonizer hull include stuff like "Warp Engines" according to the .shipclass file. That made me quite unhappy, as I had to redesign all my hulls for repeated usage.

But I did so nevertheless, salvaging some designs I hadn't used. So now my plan was to keep the base hulls around and upgrade them with components whenever I actually wanted to build a ship. Now I didn't want to make Colonizer I, II, III, IV, V etc, etc, because, well really, when would I ever use all five versions at once? And even then, I would prefer to re-optimize my ships manually, based on the technologies I had on hand and the particular situation I was in, so in one game I could have more support units on my Colonizer and in another more engines, or have shields on my Raptor II or another Laser instead. I didn't want to make hundreds of versions of my Raptors, with lasers, missiles, mass drivers, shields, point defense, armor, and engines so I could best utilize whatever tech level I was at in that particular game.

This is all a long-winded way to explain why this bug matters, to me, anyways. So I have the Hull (Colonizer) design. Whenever I want to build a colony ship, I select it, hit Upgrade, add a Colony Module and whatever else I want, then I would hit Save, and name it "Colonizer." Always "Colonizer." If I got more tech, I'd create upgrade the old Colonizer into a new design, but I - and this may be important - would NOT upgrade the old versions of it that I may have had about.

What happened, in-game, was that after a while, I started crashing every time I tried to save a new Colonizer. I couldn't figure it out until I went to look at my ships directory, and there I saw: S0_UD_Colonizer0.shipcfg ... S0_UD_Colonizer10.shipcfg. I deleted those files, went back into the game, and everything worked again. It seems that after 10 versions of ships with the same name, at least doing it the way I described, the shipyard will crap out on you, because it can't create .shipcfg11, which isn't a bad idea, because you certainly wouldn't want .shipcfg9847588391000441.

But anyways. Those are the couple of bugs I've run into. I imagine the first one could be fixed by saving .shipclass files with the design's CURRENT level of tech, rather than it's max historical level. It's not as big an issue, I think, as the second issue though, which could be resolved in a couple of ways, depending on why the .shipcfg files are piling up. Is it because I didn't upgrade all my ships, so the game has to keep date on the older version about? Or do the files just accumulate anyways, in which case maybe they shouldn't, or old ones could be cleansed regularly?

I found an 100% way too crash Gal Civ 2. GalCiv 2 is a turned based game and as such I usually chat intermitanty on AIM with my friends. Normally the AIM window popping up or works fine. However, if there are any pop up windows within GalCiv 2 open (the research screen, ship builder, main menu, ect...) the game will crash and lock up doing the 10 minute harddrive dance.

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Not sure if this belongs here, but after choosing to focus on Neutrality and reaserching the Neutrality Learning Centers, I see no effect. No new structure, project, or bonus is indicated, and there is no visible impact on my research rate. Reproduce it by focusing on neutrality after the Ethical choice, and researching the tech.

Also have the above issue.

Also having the issue of Military Star base not providing bonuses to fighters in the first mission of the campain.

These issues happend on every version so far, I check everyday, and on both of my computers. If you need I can post the debug files for either or both. But both are modern and have latest drivers and 1GB ram.

Stitch