Anomaly bug

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Before I send a zipped savegame to Stardock, I just want to see if anyone else has seen this. It's happened to me even since DL, but I just saw the worst example of it in the latest DA build (not 1.6 Beta, but the latest 1.5x).

Typically, one AI flagship will get stuck on an anomaly, and just sit there for the rest of the game (in fact, in every game where this has happened, it's only happened to one AI ship, as if when one does this, the others won't). If my flagship, or any survey ship, is on autosurvey, it will try to get to the anomaly under the AI ship, and so will just sit one tile away indefinitely. The AI flagships will do the same thing. So, the AI flagships, once they get near enough to the malfunctioning AI ship, will be effectively put out of commission.

The latest game I'm playing has 4 or 5 AI flagships sitting around the Drengin flagship, which is stuck on an anomaly. If I click on the Drengin ship, in the stacked ship display it shows the Drengin ship with a number by it (5 in this case, I think, and I assume that refers to its logistics value), then a blank square representing the anomaly with 0 for its number. If I click on the anomaly square, it comes up, as if it were a ship, but shows it as "anomaly".

Anyone else seen this kind of thing? If not, I'll just put it down to my computer not having much RAM. Perhaps that's making strange stuff happen. But if someone else has seen this also, I'll send my save in to make an official bug report.

Thanks!
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Hi!
I've seen the same in the previous game. IIRC it was the last anomaly.

BR, Iztok
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
IIRC it was the last anomaly.



No, never for me. In fact, it might be the first anomaly that a certain AI (random?) hits, because I come across an AI flagship that's stuck quite early in the game.

But the other AI ships do congregate around the stuck ship when it's the last anomaly, for obvious reasons. Namely, they're trying to get to that last anomaly "under" the stuck ship.

I'm glad (?) someone else has seen this. At least it's not some oddity in my own computer.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I've now reported it to Stardock.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
This BETA has LOTS of bugs . That's ok though it's a beta . I wish I had time to write them all out but man there are tons . Ive played several games one small galaxy and one gigantic with lots of races . It did ok on the small map but on the gigantic about 4-5 years all hell broke loose . Here are a few examples and keep in mind the game had 8 major races and 6 minor so lots of ships on the map at this point .

**Mining ships stopped working
**Would click on a ship to move and it would shift to another ship as if I pressed " find
**Tried conquering a custom race but it's last 2 planets were not on the galaxy map or the planets list only able to find it after opening a dialoge with them and seeing the names. Tried to find them but they are nowhere to be found. Finally had to spend a lot of credits to buy the planets from them so I could conquer .
**At one point I would try to fire on a planet and the ship would turn and shoot at ships half way across the map !
many more but I have to get to work ...i'll try and send an e-mail off with a save game so you can see some of these bugs <----( talking to stardock )
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
That's why I didn't update to the beta yet ha ha.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
That's why I didn't update to the beta yet ha ha.


Ha ha? HA HA?!? Well you do realize that some of us in here have updated to the beta because we were having issues with the 'non-beta' don't you? So then you think that our issues are funny? YOU THINK CTD'S ARE FUNNY?!? Why I ought to...
Sorry, just trying to have a little fun at your expense! I was going to update to the beta since it says in the dev journal that this build is addressing a bunch of issues, one or two of which I have encountered... but to see 'more' issues makes me think that downloading the beta may not be in my best interests at this time.
Please people, Cari, Brad, and all of the others working on this GREAT game... please, please, pretty please find and squash all of these nasty little bugs, okay?
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I haven't updated yet either, so don't think that I'm claiming this is in the beta. If someone sees it there, though, we should report it there also.