SE5 Demo Bug Reports & Annoyances/Requests

[Captain Kwok]

Yeah, the safety 1M population feature has not yet been applied to SE:V.

[Q]

Tried a larger combat in the simulator of the demo:
two empires with each about 20 dreadnoughts and a carrier with about 140 large fighter.
The fighters were launched and proceeded the ships.
When the two fughter groups opened fire the game froze.
I waited for more than 15 minutes but nothing happend.
I had to restart the computer, not even the task manager could be activated!
Athlon 64 3400+, 512MB RAM, Nividia GeForce FX 5500, Windows XP Home.
I have to add that until this I had absolutely no technical problems with the demo. Therefore I think it is just the number of units that killed the combat, but 280 fighters seems not that much to me.

[Captain Kwok]

The problem here is that all the fighters are trying to launch at once and ignoring the supposed fighter bay launch rates... it doesn't always result in a lock-up - but often does.

[Q]

Q said:
Tried a larger combat in the simulator of the demo:
two empires with each about 20 dreadnoughts and a carrier with about 140 large fighter.
The fighters were launched and proceeded the ships.
When the two fughter groups opened fire the game froze.
I waited for more than 15 minutes but nothing happend.
I had to restart the computer, not even the task manager could be activated!
Athlon 64 3400+, 512MB RAM, Nividia GeForce FX 5500, Windows XP Home.
I have to add that until this I had absolutely no technical problems with the demo. Therefore I think it is just the number of units that killed the combat, but 280 fighters seems not that much to me.

Repeated this in strategic combat: In the beginning everthing proceeded apparently normal and the combat lasted till 00:12:16:1272. Then the game froze again like in the tactical combat.
If this happens in the full game and in regular combat situations, the game will not be playable for me.

[Slick]

I have had many crashes in the SE:V demo. 95% of them seem to occur at the end of strategic combat. This is so annoying to me that I select tactical and just let it run on auto at max speed, which doesn't crash. This totally needs to get fixed for multiplayer games.

[MasterChiToes]

Not sure if these have been mentioned before:

When I change orders for a ship that has run out of movement, often it moves a free hex... seems to happen when the direction of the order changes, mostly noticing it when I redirect a colonizer.

The highlight options on the expanded minimap are totally screwy... enemy systems and my systems highlight the same... and there doesn't seem to be a way to claim a system, or see system others have claimed.

There doesn't seem to be an option to 'remember' enemy colonies in the Fog of War... even though there is a remember enemy ships option in the data files. This is more annoying since you can determine if a colony is still there by trying to send a colonize order to a FOWed planet.