Dominions II Bug Thread

[diamondspider]

Originally posted by PvK:
Did the enemy have some units which were immune to poison? Maybe the AI if the tries to target enemies, and the first choice is poison immune, they decide to attack them anyway, with their non-poison weapons... oops.

Just a theory.

PvK

Nah, they were fighting indies and such. Normal Heavy Infantry and then some of Jotunheim units.

After using a unit for 100s of battles you sort of get a feel for how they work. Since it happened over several battles vs. different creatures in different formations (including behind and in front) and the enemies were normal I'm sure it is a glitch.

I'm a professional programmer also and think I can tell a bug.

The ONLY possible explanation would be if a unit can run out of ammo for 6 or 7 turns straight. Something that I've never seen in this game under any circumstances.

The bug is obviously something that happens rarely and the fact that I still haven't been told where to email these files disappoints me.

If that happened to me in a long PBEM game that had been going on for weeks, it would be nearly infinately frustrating. Believe me, those units die fast when they pull their daggers and rush heavy infantry or giants

The file I have shows the following:

1) slinger unit rushes giants when given 3 chances to fire at them. This had happened the previous 5 turns also.

2) And the PROOF that they were set properly to fire is that in the tower battle that follows they fire at the giants.

3) However! Oddly enough, the tower that is firing at the giants has missiles that also leave the "black cloud" of poison without them being poisonous. This is probably another bug unless towers get poison looking missles for some strange reason when playing Miasma.

[ January 30, 2004, 07:16: Message edited by: diamondspider ]

[Johan K]

There have been many bugs fixed for the upcoming patch, especially for the windows Version. So I prefer if you mail the files to us after the patch and if the bug still remains.

[johan osterman]

Originally posted by diamondspider:

quote:

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Originally posted by Johan K:
There have been many bugs fixed for the upcoming patch, especially for the windows Version. So I prefer if you mail the files to us after the patch and if the bug still remains.

Thanks! I'll keep the file in case you ever want to see a tower shooting poison sling stones

Looking forward to the next patch...

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They are supposed to shoot poison sling stones. I believe it's in the manual.

[diamondspider]

Originally posted by johan osterman:
They are supposed to shoot poison sling stones. I believe it's in the manual.

Thanks, I hadn't seen them do that before.

I guess it I only found one glitch. Not bad for a game so complex, must say!

[ January 30, 2004, 14:31: Message edited by: diamondspider ]

[LordArioch]

I've been having some buggy problems with the modding tools. Specifically, when trying to clear units to edit them, sometimes items remain, and when I tried to clear all the units from abysia and replace them with new recruitable units the Lava Warrior, Warlock Apprentice, Warlock, and Demonbred all remained. Also, trying to give my new abysia a commander leading an army, and a scout at the start of a game, just resulted in a scout leading an army and no commander to be seen.

I can send the appropriate mod files if you want to see for yourself.

[diamondspider]

Originally posted by Johan K:
There have been many bugs fixed for the upcoming patch, especially for the windows Version. So I prefer if you mail the files to us after the patch and if the bug still remains.

Thanks! I'll keep the file in case you ever want to see a tower shooting poison sling stones

Looking forward to the next patch...

[Johan K]

To add the scout you must use the #addscout command. There can only be one commander and one scout. Also the #clear command doesn't work yet, but it will do in the next patch.

[LordArioch]

Oh, I used #startscout instead of #addscout, so maybe that was it. And as long as #clear gets patched to work I'm happy. It was still better to get the early, somewhat limited mod tools than wait longer for the complete thing.

[Ragnarok-X]

clicked end turn at turn 156, my nation was pangaea, normal theme. the game just crashed to windows, the only SERIOUS bug so far imho.

here is the log


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-- start --
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ver 100 x -1 z -1 l -1
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ppt: gameturn 156 turn 156
got turn info for player 10
get turn data for player 10 global_mappic returgaia.tga fileVersion 205
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player 10 has 0 vcrs
get 2h data for player 10
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Loading battle map ./campfire.d3m
ver 100 x -1 z -1 l -1
EnableGameInfoMods -1
get 2h data for player 10
AI 2 b-25 r0 r0
Bartholomeus cast spl Baleful Star (good 61 vis 7)
Decimus cast spl Sea King's Court (good 204 vis 45)
Iglarus cast spl Call of the Winds (good 38 vis 5)
Quirinus cast spl Summon Spring Hawks (good 177 vis 20)
Marcus (str401) attacking Fenica (str78) (good 65)
AI 2 might decide to get some mercs
AI 7 b-25 r0 r0
AI 7 might decide to get some mercs
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cnr 24 got onehand Frost Brand
Gerus cast spl Black Servant (good 45 vis 3)
AI 12 might decide to get some mercs
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com42(Quirinus) is casting spell 314(Summon Spring Hawks) (a2=20, a3=0)
Labspell: Quirinus casts Summon Spring Hawks
random event 15
random event 88
random event 88
random event 87
random event 94
random event 27
random event 17
random event 16
random event 22
random event 11
random event 36
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ver 100 x 258 z 379 l -1
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Closest enemy (for unr 1525)
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Closest enemy (for unr 3587)
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best Blessing this far, 45 14 (37 pnts)
best Blessing this far, 47 16 (40 pnts)
best spell so far Blessing (score43)
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Closest enemy (for unr 144)
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Closest enemy (for unr 3444)
Closest enemy (for unr 3444)
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Closest enemy (for unr 3371)
----- turn 1 (rand 806)(check 101944998)
com Aurvasara cast spell (favspell Nothing) (mayusegems 1)
com Aurvasara cast spell (favspell Nothing) (mayusegems 1)
----- turn 2 (rand 345)(check 101525154)
- Battle Aftermath (rand=308)(check=101561217) -
Remove all temp units
done
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initbattle lnr13 (rand=302)(check=672215)
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dobatl: highestunit 4004 highestcom 63
creating default spellbook for player 25
calcoverkill player 2
calcoverkill 799 vs 144
Overkill for player 2 (799 vs 144)
calcoverkill player 25
calcoverkill 144 vs 799
SetGraphicsQuality 16
Loading battle map ./plains.d3m
ver 100 x 258 z 379 l -1
setupsquads end (rand=887)(check=3500516)
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Closest enemy (for unr 3883)
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Closest enemy (for unr 3953)
Closest enemy (for unr 3953)
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Closest enemy (for unr 3989)
Closest enemy (for unr 3989)
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Closest enemy (for unr 3857)
----- turn 1 (rand 270)(check 223844)
----- turn 2 (rand 825)(check 4004655)
----- turn 3 (rand 782)(check 9313718)
----- turn 4 (rand 437)(check 33553841)
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Closest enemy (for unr 3953)
Closest enemy (for unr 3953)
Get an order for 3989 Velite, ord 0
Closest enemy (for unr 3989)
Closest enemy (for unr 3989)
----- turn 5 (rand 6)(check 9997302)
Get an order for 3953 Slinger, ord 0
Closest enemy (for unr 3953)
Closest enemy (for unr 3953)
Get an order for 3989 Velite, ord 0
Closest enemy (for unr 3989)
Closest enemy (for unr 3989)
----- turn 6 (rand 489)(check 7362543)
Get an order for 3953 Slinger, ord 0
Closest enemy (for unr 3953)
Closest enemy (for unr 3953)
Get an order for 3989 Velite, ord 0
Closest enemy (for unr 3989)
Closest enemy (for unr 3989)
----- turn 7 (rand 704)(check 7344113)
Get an order for 3953 Slinger, ord 0
Closest enemy (for unr 3953)
Closest enemy (for unr 3953)
Get an order for 3989 Velite, ord 0
Closest enemy (for unr 3989)
Closest enemy (for unr 3989)
- Battle Aftermath (rand=683)(check=2235324) -
Remove all temp units
done
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2 vs 12 in lnr 50 (castlemode 1) Laststand_att0 Laststand_def1
initbattle lnr50 (rand=771)(check=64411993)
rand after setup (host battle) 312
dobatl: highestunit 6475 highestcom 174
calcoverkill player 12
calcoverkill player 2
Rearmost enemy (for unr 2673)
Rearmost enemy (for unr 2752)
SetGraphicsQuality 15
Loading battle map ./citadel.d3m
ver 100 x 249 z 378 l -1
setupsquads end (rand=255)(check=68128810)
Get an order for 245 Mandragora, ord 0
Closest enemy (for unr 245)
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Closest enemy (for unr 2314)
Get an order for 3382 Jotun Hurler, ord 0
Closest enemy (for unr 3382)
Closest enemy (for unr 3382)
com Eitre cast spell (favspell Nothing) (mayusegems 1)
best spell so far Breath of Winter (score520)
castspell: cnr24 spl402 (Breath of Winter) vis0 x46 y17 spldmg12288
addunitfx: unr3342 fx201 fxattr100
addunitfx: unr3342 fx201 fxattr100
com Gerus cast spell (favspell Nothing) (mayusegems 1)
best spell so far Air Shield (score398)
best Horror Mark this far, 14 6 (2 pnts)
best Horror Mark this far, 15 6 (12 pnts)
best Horror Mark this far, 14 7 (13 pnts)
best Horror Mark this far, 14 12 (21 pnts)
best Frighten this far, 14 6 (18 pnts)
best Frighten this far, 15 6 (24 pnts)
best Frighten this far, 16 6 (25 pnts)
best Frighten this far, 17 6 (26 pnts)
best Frighten this far, 15 7 (32 pnts)
best Frighten this far, 16 7 (34 pnts)
best Frighten this far, 17 7 (35 pnts)
best Frighten this far, 18 7 (37 pnts)
best Frighten this far, 19 7 (39 pnts)
best Frighten this far, 18 8 (42 pnts)
best Curse this far, 14 6 (1 pnts)
best Curse this far, 15 6 (11 pnts)
best Curse this far, 16 6 (12 pnts)
best Curse this far, 15 8 (14 pnts)
best Curse this far, 14 12 (19 pnts)
best Flight this far, 45 10 (6 pnts)
best spell so far Raise Skeletons (score654)
best Regeneration this far, 42 2 (18 pnts)
best Regeneration this far, 41 3 (127 pnts)
best Regeneration this far, 46 17 (140 pnts)
best spell so far Antimagic (score32390)
castspell: cnr128 spl425 (Antimagic) vis3 x46 y15 spldmg67108864
addms: out of spr


cant help you anymore, i didnt did anything special (other than setting 9 commanders on research in one province)

[Targa]

Originally posted by Ragnarok-X:
...player 10 has 0 vcrs

Probably needs a DVD player anyways...

AI 2 might decide to get some mercs
AI 7 might decide to get some mercs

That made me chuckle. Shows how cool this game coding is.