Cloaking AI Bug in 1.27?

Darwin · #1 February 23rd, 2001, 06:29 PM

I found another cloaking bug I think. I decloaked my ship and tryed to attack a cloaked ship that I could see, Psychic Scanners, and I had plenty of movement. But it simply would not let me attack. Next turn it attacked just fine. I saved a game for MM but accidently deleted it.

Emperor Zodd · #2 February 23rd, 2001, 07:05 PM

Why didn't these cloaking problems happen to the Beta testers before the patch was released?

ColdSteel · #3 February 23rd, 2001, 09:38 PM

It must be fairly rare or the forum would be swamped by cloaking bug reports. That's also probably why the beta testers didn't see it.

Emperor Zodd · #4 February 23rd, 2001, 10:02 PM

Could this just be happening to games that were started before the patch only?

[This message has been edited by Emperor Zodd (edited 23 February 2001).]

Kellicus · #5 February 24th, 2001, 12:04 AM

[quote]Originally posted by Emperor Zodd:
[b]Could this just be happening to games that were started before the patch only?

I am playing a new 1.27 game and I got a huge pile of log Messages saying the AI race couldn't launch while cloaked. I had saved the game at the end of my turn, so I just tried to resume it and see what would happen. The game won't load. It just locks up.

Emperor Zodd · #6 February 24th, 2001, 12:58 AM

Aaron told me he is aware of the bug and is working on it.

DirectorTsaarx · #7 February 26th, 2001, 04:55 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Darwin:
I found another cloaking bug I think. I decloaked my ship and tryed to attack a cloaked ship that I could see, Psychic Scanners, and I had plenty of movement. But it simply would not let me attack. Next turn it attacked just fine. I saved a game for MM but accidently deleted it.

I had this happen in a 1.19 game too... I had Temporal Scanners on a base in a nebula system, which allowed me to see the enemy's colony ships. But I couldn't initiate an attack with my local fighter group, I had to wait until the next turn when the enemy sent a second colony ship through the same sector. Combat ensued automatically. I didn't bother reporting as a bug, since I figured I needed a scanner in the same sector to intiate combat, and by the time I figured out what was really happening, I'd already overwritten the savegame.