Known Bugs

[Suicide Junkie]

You may have been seeing a ship with multiple guns at different states of reloading. One gun firing while the others are still reloading.

Either that, or a typo in your mod.
If I were to guess, its either one of the components in the family with a typo in the fire rate, or that you allowed upgrades from ship-NSPs to fighter or troop NSPs which fire faster.

The AI definitely *does* follow the reloading restrictions, or it would have been noticed on PBW years ago.

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PS:
Having looked at the savegame you posted, and presuming you mean the last battle in the news list I can tell you what your problem is:
1) You have *no* defenses on those ships.

The enemy fleet fired NSPs in all three rounds of the post-contact engagement, yes. They fired them from different ships.
They *did* however, fire Polaron Beams lots, but PPBs reload in one turn. They did one of two things:
A) Knocked out your level 1 phased shielding in one or two hits, followed by lots and lots of hull hits.
B) Pierced your decent amounts of normal shields, doing hull hits right away.

Basically, your designs didn't stand a chance, and the enemy's NSPs really didn't help in that battle. They slaughtered you fair and square with their PPBs.

[Atrocities]

Thanks SJ, thats pretty much what I thought. I had to watch the replay several times to be sure the AI was not cheating by using the NSP more than they should be using them given the reload time of 3 turns.

[inigma]

4 bugs I found using unmodded 1.91:

1. I have animation turned on for system ship movement in an early game, and while the ship was still flying, I thought I could change my mind and order it to do something once it arrived at its destination. As it was flying I clicked for it to load something, except instead I got a memory error or some other error which made all my menu buttons usless afterwards and I had to restart the game. It only happened twice when I was ordering ships and pressing buttons during their animated system movements.

2. I can't really remember details, but I seem to have the oddest situations when saving my games and then reloading them. I do remember one where I saved a game after setting my research queue, then ending turn after turn after turn (about 5 turns) to see what the new tech was like. Then I reloaded my saved game, only to realize that those techs were now "discovered" in my saved game.

3. I realized early that I can exploit the AI by demanding gifts from weaker empires like the Phong and EEE. I was 2-3 times their score, and it was like taking candy from a baby. I tested it out, and realized I could ask for all their techs, relations, maps, planets, all in one fell swoop, ending their existence. Since "surrender by gifting" seems a little low, I've let them exist... for now. Perhaps its not a bug, and perhaps it has a meaning of a threat behind it ("hey, i'm bigger than you, so give me what I want or else...")

4. I receied a gift of a destroyer from the Phong, and it ran of gas halfway into my sector headed for my base space yard, moving at 1 sector per turn. So I grab a fully loaded tanker ship and fleet it up with the unit. The fleet has half supplies, but it still only moves 1 sector per turn. The destroyer still shows empty. This only happens when I have units that run out of gas entirely, as other Phong destroyers I've accepted were 1 turn short of running out of gas, and they fleeted up fine with my tankers and kept their full movement.

[Ed Kolis]

On #4, you have to wait a turn for the fuel to actually transfer from one ship to the other; then the fleet should start moving normally again.