Another pair of bugs from the beta-testers (us players)

Nyx · #1 December 28th, 2000, 07:05 PM

I've had a report of a star about to explode, but I won the game before it was due to go off.

Also, if you look through the random events file there are no good events. Not a single one. I think this was supposed to balance out the fact that there are no bad racial traits.

WhiteHojo · #2 December 28th, 2000, 07:11 PM

A little off the posted topic but similiar to the thread talk - How the heck do you stop a planet from rioting after they already start? I've heard putting a ship in orbit, but I tried this w/a lt cruiser and it didn't work.

LintMan · #3 December 28th, 2000, 07:17 PM

I had some sort of planetary firestorm on one of my colonies that killed about half the population... It gave advance notice of the disaster, about 3 turns ahead, but unfortunately, I evactuated the wrong planet in the system (IV instead of VI), so they were toasted.

I thought I might have evactuated the wrong planet, but it was 1-2 turns after the warning, and I couldn't find any way to find out where the disaster would happen...

One wierd thing is that once you get the message of impending doom, there's no other indication of the problem until it happens - it would have been nice if the planet info mentioned the upcoming disaster, and also if the log had a message about if _every_ turn.

Puke · #4 December 28th, 2000, 07:51 PM

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Originally posted by LintMan:
I had some sort of planetary firestorm on one of my colonies that killed about half the population... It gave advance notice of the disaster, about 3 turns ahead, but unfortunately, I evactuated the wrong planet in the system (IV instead of VI), so they were toasted.

hehehe.. ooo, that hurts. and you can see it happening even.. I mean, if they can miss an english-metric conVersion on the mars orbiter, I can just picture nasa picking up all these millions of people in a great feat of engineering, and watching dumbfoundedly from orbit as the population of the planet next door is incinerated! with little people screaming over the comm channel - and all the people that were just evacuated by mistake looking really peeved.. ahh, hoooo.

righty, then. back to the TOPIC: It sounds like a bug Frey. If there is any chance you still have the save game, im sure you know what to do with it by now

Worgaus · #5 December 29th, 2000, 06:46 AM

I have random events going on in my games all the time, even on the Infrequent setting. There was one game were I was battling with the AI over a system, where the AI had already established a good hold on it, and I had just got a planet set up myself as a launch point for attacks, and then I got the warning maybe 2 turns later the sun was going to nova....and it did, wiped out the entire system, and prolonged my conquest of those evil Eee significantly, since its next system was 2 warp points away. This Last game I've been playing, an AI controlled planets core became unstable, so I got a good laugh when that exploded. That was one less planet I had to take =) The same game there was a random anomoly that dumped one of my ships off into unexplored territory several systems away. So yes, they definitely do work, though I wouldn't complain to rigorously when bad events don't work against you =P

DirectorTsaarx · #6 December 29th, 2000, 04:10 PM

I finally got one of those "ship damaged in ion storm" reports. It was a colony ship (which I had in a fleet, but only the colony ship was "damaged"). Anyway, there was no permanent damage to the ship. I looked at it immediately, and no damage. Regular hotseat-style game, NO simultaneous turn stuff, etc. Might be that the colony module was damaged, but not enough to destroy it...

Psitticine · #7 December 30th, 2000, 12:00 AM

Lessee, I've seen the Ion Storm and Fire Storm events, plus I've had several stars go bye-bye. I've also returned to distant systems after awhile and found them . . . gone.

I've also seen one called the Spacial Anomoly. It picks one of your ships and flings it . . . someplace. It has the annoying side-effect of breaking up the fleet the ship belonged to, even when leaving the rest of the fleet in place (so much for their fleet experience!

).

I've also had a neutral empire's ship pop into my system spontaneously. I can only assume they've been struck by the same event.