Combat Log Bug?
 

Okay, so I'm looking at a PBW turn this morning (stock game), and I see a log entry corresponding to a combat. From the looks of things, I lost completely while my opponent lost just a handful of ships. Wondering why my fleet wasn't more successful, I watch the combat replay.

As the replay progresses, it seems like my fleet isn't doing that bad after all. I still lose in the end, but I definitely kill more ships than the log message indicates. So, I watch the replay again. This time, I count the number of ships left on the Last turn of combat. Then I count the supposed number of survivor as indicated by the log. There was a significant discrepency (roughly 8 ships) that were falsely reported as surviving in the log message.

As a final note, the ships left sitting in the sector on the system map match the ships from the final turn of the replay. Has anyone else seen something like this before?

Re: Combat Log Bug?
 

I believe I'm the opponent you fought in that battle, and I've noticed similar things happening in other battles I've fought in that game. I believe it's because I'm using retrofits to speed up building and training, and not bothering to rename the retrofitted ships. I'd be willing to bet that each dead ship shown as surviving in the log entry has the same name as a ship that did survive. I also would not be surprised if some of the "dead" ships survived, but had the same name as one that did not. This is the only place I've noticed where the game can get confused by identical ship names.

Re: Combat Log Bug?
 

Ah, that might explain it. (Yes, you were the opponent)

I was wondering why you had so many ships with the same name.