NickelPlate

Join Date 03/2006

Bugs, bugs and more bugs

I've only had this game one week and I'm beginning to lose interest in playing it whilst discovering the ever
increasing pile of bugs. At first I noticed that the custom playlists feature for the music is non-existent and
also the "Enable Tutorial Mode" checkbox that is again non-existent both of which are mentioned in the manual.
Major disappointment since the music tracks are actually pretty good but the game will only play one, over and
over again.

Then there are the rally point bugs. Rally points on top of starbases are impossible to disband unless you park
a ship there first, and I've got other rally points that were disbanded ages ago in a game but still show up
and clutter the list.

Then there is the issue of starbases that were once mine and destroyed by the enemy, they build a new starbase in its place and their base shows up in my list of starbases, . I could go on but as many of you know, the list is quite exhaustive. This game feels like a beta.

After reading all the hype and positive reviews on this game I don't understand how all of these bugs slipped
past the reviewers as normally this sort of thing really drags down a game's rating. And how many more
undiscovered bugs or non-existent features are there?

To top it all off, this forum is S.L.O.W. I come here often looking for work arounds for the current issues but many times can't even read the latest post .

Don't get me wrong, I really like this game and I want to play it. But for now, I'm putting it back on the shelf and thinking about getting Star Wars Empires at War or just playing Moo2. My advice to anyone considering buying this game is to wait until the bugs are fixed. That is if you can ever get onto the forums to read the latest updates.

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NickelPlate

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Then there is the issue of starbases that were once mine and captured by the enemy show up in my list of
starbases, . I could go on but as many of you know, the list is quite exhaustive. This game feels like a beta.

Starbases can't be captured; they can only be destroyed. You can sell/trade/give them away, of course.

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Well, for whatever reason I have the enemies starbases showing up in my list where I once had a starbase that they destroyed.

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the forum is very slow. And yes, it is hard to understand how these little cosmetic bugs sliped by.

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WHAT THE FUCK IS EVERYONE COMPLAINING ABOUT? Cheese and Rice you people are obsessed with these little bugs. HINT: Get a new or update your computer!!!

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And this is worthy of a response in what way?

"WHAT THE FUCK IS EVERYONE COMPLAINING ABOUT? Cheese and Rice you people are obsessed with these little bugs. HINT: Get a new or update your computer!!!"

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Well I don't really understand what your trying to say with the last "bug" since as it was mentioned before starbases can't be captured and the first bug is not something i care even a little about since there are a number of ways to listen to music and play galciv2. But the second bug is certainly reproducable and i guess could be annoying I had never noticed it before.

I think billy bob is just irritated with all the drama queens (not saying your included) coming to the fourms acting like the smallest thing wrong is "game breaking" or "has ruined galciv2", its unfortunate that such small bugs turn you off so easily but if you report them its very likely they will be remedied soon.

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Let's all play nice. There are enough dips#!t threads as it is.

I'm still curious about the starbase issue. So you have a starbase. It gets toasted. Another civ builds one on the same spot, and it's showing up as being yours? I'm also assuming these are resource-mining starbases?

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It isn't that small bugs bother me easily. But that I've wasted considerable amounts of time in the game trying to make sense out what I'm seeing when in fact, it makes no sense, only to discover that it's another bug. That's what is frustrating. I just want to play and enjoy the game and keep it moving along at a decent pace without getting tripped up by information on the game screens that isn't correct and reading about things in the manual which aren't there. So to me alot of these bugs are more than just cosmetic because of the time spent trying to figure out what's going on. And without having to spend hours on this forum trying to determine what the bugs really are.

I don't expect the game to be bug free, nothing ever is but I've played ALOT of games over the years and it's been awhile since I've seen one with this many bugs that got such a high rating. Like I said, I think the game has the potential to be great and certainly live up to the hype. I just hope they do fix the bugs soon.

I'll take your advice and post my observations over in the bug list and hopefully they will be fixed soon. Thanks for the reply.

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About the starbase issue. I first noticed it today. I was at war with Thalan's for a good while and lost a few resource starbases in the process. They built their own starbases on those resources and now their starbases are showing up in my list. Doesn't seem right to me.

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Frogboy

Join Date 03/2001

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There are features that were cut between the time the manual went to manufacturing and the release of the game.

I'm afraid that's pretty normal in strategy games.

The forum is slow because it has a lot of traffic, especially lately. That has nothing to do with the game.

So the only "bug" you've mentioned is that it's hard to access rally points that are on starbases.

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"So the only "bug" you've mentioned is that it's hard to access rally points that are on starbases. "

I realize the slow forum has nothing to do with the game, that was just observation. Hopefully that will improve. But what about the enemy starbase showing up in my list? That's not a bug? In the interest of being pro-active I've posted everything I've interpreted to be a bug in the glitch report sticky.

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honey, the game sold more units in its first 10 days than the original, No one expected this much traffic.

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Frogboy

Join Date 03/2001

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I realize the slow forum has nothing to do with the game, that was just observation. Hopefully that will improve. But what about the enemy starbase showing up in my list? That's not a bug? In the interest of being pro-active I've posted everything I've interpreted to be a bug in the glitch report sticky.

I don't know how else to say this other than I'm not certain it's not a user error. You first mentioned that your starbases got taken over by other players. That's simply not possible.

You say "Enemy starbases showing up on your list". What "list"? I've not heard of anything like this. Perhaps you have found some new bug, but it's not one I've ever heard of.

If you have a saved game of this sort of behavior, feel free to zip up that saved game and email it to me at brad at stardock.com

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Hi Frogboy,

Initially I thought the starbase had been captured but Kid Charming already pointed out that this isn't possible. I've edited my original post to reflect this. What really happened is that the enemy destroyed a resource starbase of mine and then built their own on the same spot. Now, that starbase shows up in my list from the Planet / Shiplist button in the control panel, click on View ships and then starbases. Maybe that list isn't meant to just show my starbases but everyone's? If that's the case, sorry about confusion. Thanks.

NickelPlate

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im running int o bugs whats wrong with the game, it tells me to debug yall need to do a patch to fix this!
MtO Retread/sarg7714

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man billy bob or what ever . do you kiss your mom with that nasty mouth??????????

shame on you!
still gettin alot of send error report and debug in the middle of the game . You guys are workin on them aren't ya??
MtO Retread/sarg7714

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man your game just keeps getting worse and wors now the turn button is not operating , lets see just today your game has crashed twice....... im getting run time errors..... now the turn button is not working man what kinda program yall running here this is toataly redicuolus this is a darn shame ya know ya useually expect a few bugs or glitches in a new game thats expected but this is very very sad man you guys were just thinking of that buck you guys didnt even spend enough time researching and testing this if ya did it was a pretty lousy attempt yall should go stick your heads in the sand to cover the shame! think ill put this game away for awhile till you guys get it togather , and think ill tell peops that it aint ready fer the public right now its got so many bugs glitchs and malfunction going on with it ! its a darn shame to cause this could be a darn good game!
sarg7714/MtO Retread.......... very disapointed
and agine run time error report lolol what a sad thing !

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Mto, for hells sake, put up a flaming debug.err! It could be an old version, drivers, etc, because the new versions rarely crash. there are a lot of patches, just show us what the problem is. You don't know what it is because I doubt you can read code. They don't think of the money, have a look around. You aren't helping, no-one here is psychic.

To summarise: DEBUG ERR! God I hate people that don't help themselves and expect things done.

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Well, for whatever reason I have the enemies starbases showing up in my list where I once had a starbase that they destroyed.

Are you talking about the ship list? You do know that you can filter that for your own ships or for all ships including other races etc. So I'm guessing you have it set for all ships. In other words, it’s not a bug but operator error instead.

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