Planet vanishing!

Baron Munchausen · #1 October 6th, 2002, 02:27 AM

Yes, we have noticed this before in the beta group and have speculated that it has to do with the game making a mistake choosing which planet to remove when an event or a stellar manipulation requires a removal. But it's a fairly rare occurence and it's awfully difficult to watch all events in all systems on the map at once, so it's hard to be sure. I don't recall seeing any notices in the history.txt file about a fix of anything relatable to this.

Q · #2 October 6th, 2002, 08:46 AM

Whatever the reason is, it is rare and random. I repeated the turn several times and could not reproduce it again.
Baron your explanation sounds reasonable to me. The game where this happend is quite advanced and stellar manipulation is very frequent: one AI empire blew up a star in a system on the other side of the galaxy in the same turn and planets are created like rabbits.
I just accept this as an undocumented "feature": The planet was teleported by some time vortex to a distant future.

Arkcon · #3 October 6th, 2002, 10:33 PM

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Originally posted by Q:
I just accept this as an undocumented "feature": The planet was teleported by some time vortex to a distant future.

If only we could control it, and get the log file to show your avatar when it happened.

Baron, what you said really made sense. I think I was destroying some other planets across the galaxy and then it happened there. Hmmm. Interesting bug, maybe this should happen more often if there are more planets and moons and the event frequency is high? Then it could be caught.