Possible bug (major effect in the game!)?

[Karibu]

I just registered into this forum to ask your opinion of the following:

I play SEIV pbw. Last turn I noticed that one system over 200 ship enemy fleet simply disappeared leaving only 9 ships behind. They didin't go any other system, for I see those systems also. I don't believe they cloacked either, because I looked movement log stepped(day by day) and I saw that fleet moving 3 sectors and then 200 ships simply disappeared.

Also, that player skipped turn, so his AI was playing for him. Is AI able to do something we humans can't in pbw?

Firstly: with simultaneous turns if you want to cloack your ships, you have to do it at the beginning of the turn. It can't be ordered to be done in the middle, after you have already moved.

Secondly: If that player had resource shortage, ships would be scrapped from here and there, few at the time, not 200 ships all together.

Thirdly: If AI decided to scrap those ships, it would have to be done at the beginning of the turn, not in the middle. Furthermore, scrapping is not possible in the middle of the space (except if you have space yard ship included in the fleet).

Any opiniosn & comments here, plese. Should I sent this turn I received to someone for a closer look? If there is a bug which scraps fleets containing over 200 ships, I want to know that. I contacted that player, whose fleet disappeared, but I am still waiting a response.

Oh, yes. The game is Gold and patch 1.84 included.

[ February 14, 2003, 10:52: Message edited by: Karibu ]