Disappearing Ship Question

[Suicide Junkie]

I think the cloak & move is a good guess at what happened then...
The cloak just didn't kick in replay-wise until the end of the turn.

[Grandpa Kim]

Slynky, I had a similar occurence in Networks I.

I lost a whole planet! The moon remained, but the planet was there one turn and gone the next. No explanation, no warning, no nothing. It never did reappear and I was left with a lonely moon properly named IX A, but no planet IX to go with it. I had owned the pair for at least 100 turns when this happened and was doing nothing out of the ordinary, just building ships and units.

I think these incidents are related but are so rare, Aaron would likely never figure it out.

[Roanon]

I have seen something similar, a large number of ships disappearing in a fleet AFTER it had moved. Replay log, they were there, end of replay, vanished.
What had happend is that these ships have been cloaked by the player on that turn, being retrofitted to cloakable the turn before. It seems that though cloaking happens immediately when giving orders, in reality it happens (sometimes? always?) after moving.

[Slynky]

Originally posted by Roanon:
I have seen something similar, a large number of ships disappearing in a fleet AFTER it had moved. Replay log, they were there, end of replay, vanished.
What had happend is that these ships have been cloaked by the player on that turn, being retrofitted to cloakable the turn before. It seems that though cloaking happens immediately when giving orders, in reality it happens (sometimes? always?) after moving.

If that is it, then it's a flaw. I mean, if a ship shows cloaked at the beginning of the turn, it should remain cloaked throughout the turn.

[Paul1980au]

Can we set up a test to test it out - thats why i keep saying as soon as SE5 enters beta testing i would like to see one final Version 2 patch of SE4 to fix all these remaining bugs to make it a truly polished game and im sure people with old computers will keep buying SE4 even when SE5 is out.