My fighter defected!

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Something really screwy just happened. I got into a fight with an Iconian fleet, and somehow they had one of my fighters! I had JUST designed it, like ten turns before, because the Iconians declared war on me out of nowhere.

I sure as heck didn't give it to them and none of mine were missing (I don't think). It was WAY more advanced than anything they had and they couldn't possibly have built it themselves. No, they didn't take any worlds where I was building one. They didn't take anything at all from me.

After I started launching these fighters, I kept getting the stupid "let's autofocus a ship and jerk the camera to the other side of the galaxy to piss off the player" thing and seeing one of my new fighters, but it was like it was stacked in the same square with an Iconian fleet. I had NOTHING in that part of the galaxy. I reloaded the save file and that didn't help.

Then when we got into it, one of MY fighters was in THEIR fleet. And I killed it, and suddenly my side showed a loss. But I didn't lose anything in that battle. In fact, my fighter on their side was the only ship on their side that did me any damage at all (I design mean fighters).
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Sorry. Meant to say, I'm running the beta GalCiv2_110_beta_032406.exe
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Same thing happened to me but with less firepower than I had on the ship .It did seem weird fighting one of my own ships until I thought about it.

The AI had captured one of my planets that was building the ship and it obviously kept building it to completion. The reason it was armed differently is due to the AI's lower tech level, I supposed.

Anyway that's how I explained it to myself. If you recently lost a planet to the Iconians that may be what happened. if not I don't have a clue
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
No, that didn't happen. I slaughtered the Iconians in every single engagement and they took -nothing- away from me. I had a major tech advantage over them in this game.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Maybe they were brainwashed by the iconians?

But seriously i don't know how that could have happened.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I've had my entire nation defect twice before. It's a very weird bug and quite abusable. On the trade screen it listed all of my assets as their assets and all of theirs as mine. Out of curiosity I traded everything of 'theirs' back to 'myself'. The game crashed.

I tried again, this time only influence, money, ships and other total intangibles. I doubled everything but my planets in an instant. Weirdness.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
In 1.0D or 1.0X I purchased a ship in an attempt to stave off an incoming troop transport. Trouble was i was a turn too late and the enemy captured both my planet and my new ship. However after that the ship they captured was invisible and had no graphics. Sounds like a similar issue.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Well, this is a beta. Maybe, just maybe, they originally had some sort of option where you can cause defectors? Like the way they planned agents in the expansion?

I'm saying this with the vain hope that I can steal enemy ships in the expansion. Sounds like a damn annoying bug.
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Mikeswi,
Were you attacking ships in orbit when this happened or were they out in open space?

If you wouldn't mind, could you please send your debug.err file (in your galciv2 folder) and a saved game near when that happened (if you have one).

Thanks.
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Well, I can't send a debug. I finished that game and went on to another already.

The Iconian fleet that had my fighter was about 1/4 of the way across the galaxy (huge galaxy setting) when it first started to autofocus to that location. I can't honestly remember if I was attacking ships in orbit at that moment, but I don't think I was.

I had just taken two planets from them.... and now that I think of it, I'm pretty sure I was launching fighters from one of their former worlds when it started happening. Can't remember if I bought any fighters on that planet. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have, because it had a precursor mine and could pop out one of those fighters every week.

We were both well away from any planets when that battle happened.
Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I've had a similar problem while playing a bete 1 game (hasn't happend yet in beta 2 but I have been more careful). It started when I double click ships on a planet to launch them. Occationally instead of coming out, they 'disappear'. A blank entry is left in my ship list too. Later I found one of the missing ships in an enemy fleet.

I think what happens is the game still lets you click and do certain things while the ememy is still taking its turn (though it is off screen and you cant always tell). When this happens it can confuse who owns what and the game becomes corrupt.

After continuing to play that specific game I started to get crashes to desktop about 100 turns later, it has not yet crashed in games where my ships are all accounted for so I believe that is related too.