1.08 bugs.

[Devnullicus]

Yeah, that's known as a memory leak.

[Jeku]

And that's what usually happens before it crashes or locks into a forever loop after all the AI players have made their moves.

[Jeku]

Also, the credits look a bit funky ingame--- I don't know if it's by design though. It just shows a bunch of photos, with no names. Does anyone else get that too?

[Raapys]

I think there's a memory leak with ship movement. The longer 'routes' you make, the slower they actually move through that route, graphically. If you set up a 20-turn route going through several systems it gets really bad indeed.

[AngleWyrm]

Raapys said:
The longer 'routes' you make, the slower they actually move through that route, graphically. If you set up a 20-turn route going through several systems it gets really bad indeed.

This could also be caused by a path-finding algorithm that is being run each time the ship moves. If that is the case, then a workaround would be to break the trip into several shorter destinations. That way thinking about the best hex to move into only has to consider a smaller number of possible routes.

[Slick]

Yes, if you have ever seen the "stutter step dance" (SSD)(tm) this makes sense.

SSD = a ship moves into sensor range of a warp point, sees an enemy on the warp point, decides that he doesn't want to engage, moves 1 sector toward another warp point and now out of sensor range of the original warp point, now can't see the enemy, realizes that the original warp point path is shorter, moves 1 sector back toward the original warp point, again sees the enemy, wash, rinse, repeat.

[Baron Munchausen]

Slick said:
Yes, if you have ever seen the "stutter step dance" (SSD)(tm) this makes sense.

SSD = a ship moves into sensor range of a warp point, sees an enemy on the warp point, decides that he doesn't want to engage, moves 1 sector toward another warp point and now out of sensor range of the original warp point, now can't see the enemy, realizes that the original warp point path is shorter, moves 1 sector back toward the original warp point, again sees the enemy, wash, rinse, repeat.

Now that one I have never seen. Talk about stoopid! It's bad enough when ships change course to a different a much longer route because a WP several systems away is temporarily blocked by a non-ally ship. But this is completely ridiculous.

[Moriarty]

Slick said:
Yes, if you have ever seen the "stutter step dance" (SSD)(tm) this makes sense.

SSD = a ship moves into sensor range of a warp point, sees an enemy on the warp point, decides that he doesn't want to engage, moves 1 sector toward another warp point and now out of sensor range of the original warp point, now can't see the enemy, realizes that the original warp point path is shorter, moves 1 sector back toward the original warp point, again sees the enemy, wash, rinse, repeat.

As pointed out in my bug list, this continues to happen even when the route the ship wanted to take becomes clear.

[dmm]

Slick said: Yes, if you have ever seen the "stutter step dance" (SSD)(tm) this makes sense.

Sounds like my management is running your ships.

[Suicide Junkie]

Might you have a problem with your fonts, causing all this text to not show up?