SE5 Demo Bug Reports & Annoyances/Requests

[jowe01]

Finished my first two demo games. Besides diplomacy not working (for me?, see above), the AI still is my main complaint. I ran a fighter-based strategy in the second game and the AIs failed to put any point-defense on their ships. Furthermore, there were no serious attacks from the AI (I always could feel very safe.

BTW, I sometimes had the impression that the defensive bonus of fighters do not really. With the 80 bonus and the AIs not using point defense weapons, they should shoot down very few of my fighters. However, about every second shot hit its mark.

[tmcc]

Found a new bug/feature last night. When setting construction queues to repeat build in the queue settings tab the first ship will be built in the normal time (3 turns for the frigate I designed) and then all subsequent ships of that design are built in 1 turn. Once this ship is removed from the queue build time reverts to the standard. As long as one instance of the ship remains in the queue more can be added at 1 turn each.

[Captain Kwok]

The combat hull bonuses are not being applied, it's a known bug. The AI could use some design optimization. Although some of the AI races are wimpy - others seem to be a lot more aggressive in attacking.

[BBegemott]

[img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Bug.gif[/img] Colonisers have unlimited speed!. I have a coloniser, that has orders to move to PlanetX and colonise. I cancell its orders, then order to colonise the same planet again. It moves 1 hex towards the planet, though it has 0 movement points left!

[img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Bug.gif[/img] drones have unlimited supplies! Few of my drones has croees 5-6 systems without losing a single supply point. And no, I do not have a resuply depot in any of the systems.

EDIT- And now the most insane bug: altering constant 'Starting Game Date' in Settings.txt it is possible to bypass 100 turns limit.

[Captain Kwok]

Ha Ha - I knew the changing the starting game date would work for bypassing the 100 turn demo limit!

[Kamog]

Really? I tried this and the game still stopped working at 100 turns. Actually the turn limit message came up at turn 101. What did you change the starting date to?

[BBegemott]

Actually I am at the turn 20 right now(2402.0). I cange that date to 23922, restart SEVd, and get message of 100 turn limit after 2 turns (2402.2=2392.2=10.0). I didn't try that for 2410.0 (didn't go that far yet), but if you set starting date at 24099, you should be able to keep playing extra turns, as the game will think you are currently at turn 1.

[Baal]

If I colonize a non-breathable planet with zero population then bring a population transport full of population I can go over the planetary limit when it adjusts for the fact I can't breathe the air.

Plus, Planets with zero population still build their construction ques. They didn't in SE4.

[MasterChiToes]

Baal said:
If I colonize a non-breathable planet with zero population then bring a population transport full of population I can go over the planetary limit when it adjusts for the fact I can't breathe the air.

Plus, Planets with zero population still build their construction ques. They didn't in SE4.

Odd, when I colonize a planet with an 'empty' colony ship, I get 1M population on it. I guess it is possible my species is so migration happy that it doesn't wait a turn to move in.

[Baal]

MasterChiToes said:

Odd, when I colonize a planet with an 'empty' colony ship, I get 1M population on it. I guess it is possible my species is so migration happy that it doesn't wait a turn to move in.

I had used it to explore a bit. I hadn't given it the colinze command while it was over a planet. In any case I think you can do it if you drop the population on a planet then move it off the planet before you use the colonize command.