Hmmm ... just had a game with a couple of successful finds ... the only thing different, near as I can tell is: I hadn't gotten to the point where I could make "Corvettes" using my own technology. Could it be something silly like that? Where the "Precursor Corvette" would conflict with Terran "Corvettes" if you had the tech to make them? Sounds unlikely ...
1.11, Corvettes. Rangers have been found with no problems (except for that I by the time I had a tech high enough to crush it like a can, it appeared as if the AI had sold it by that point). Had an assassination once that didn't cause a crash (just a war, but I wasn't involved). Will eventually look into the smartexception thing ... Debug Message: Version v1.11 last updated on: Mon May 8 11:15:04 2006 Debug Message: Could not find a TGN Serial No.<
I have seen this bug on 1.11 with a 1.11 game, so it is not a save from 1.1 issue (well, not strictly). Alas, I don't have a debug.err that looks valid for this issue at this time (oops, went in to fix a different bug I found the fix for while looking for this issue and blew away the valid one). The shorthand for this bug could be called "Corvette Crash". While I have yet to find corvettes, my opponents do occasionally but it doesn't do them any good - *boom*! And I have
