Any more bug reports?

[Atrocities]

1. Stratigy "Capture Planet" does not work when fully loaded troop transports are present in the fleet.
2. Sometimes large planets images are used but with small planet statistics. IE medium planet image, but can only hold 5 facilities. (Race Breathable)
3. Sometimes game will crash or lock up if you start to set up a game, but then choose not to play, and click Quit.
4. AI will not press its advantage. IE, it will enter a system, but not attack.
5. AI Races that are you allies always show "Murderous" in attitude toward you. Why is that, and if that is the case, then they should break there treaty with you.
6. AI expands too rapidly.
7. AI does not use the OBSOLETE function, therefore its ship roaster que is huge.
8. AI often attempts to retrofit ships that can not be retrofitted, and that results in an RCE.
9. AI does not use "Avoid System" and often will loose ship after ship to a black hole.
10. AI will only construct ships of the highest type, ie once Battleships have been discovered, that is all they will build. They do not build ships of other classes once a new class is discovered.


[This message has been edited by Atrocities (edited 08 October 2001).]

[Mephisto]

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Originally posted by Atrocities:
7. AI does not use the OBSOLETE function, therefore its ship roaster que is huge.
9. AI does not use "Avoid System" and often will loose ship after ship to a black hole.
10. AI will only construct ships of the highest type, ie once Battleships have been discovered, that is all they will build. They do not build ships of other classes once a new class is discovered.
[This message has been edited by Atrocities (edited 08 October 2001).]

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Regarding 7: It does for me. No problem here.
Regarding 9: That's because a black hole system is not per se a "avoid system". You have to manually set it to be so (and the Ai, of course, never does).
Regarding 10: It's not a bug, it's a feature.

[Rich04]

I agree with Atrocities. Even when you toggle "Avoid System" it only partially works. Colony ships and Transports avoid the system while warships merrily destroy themselves. I often bulid a few scouts and put them on autopilot. I dread it when a black hole winds up close by. Eventually all the scout will die unless I untoggle them and micromanage the exploration they could do. If a black hole is not found they do a great job sometimes Lasting most of the way through the game.

Another possible bug I and others have encountered on PBW(Simo Bug?) is phantom ministers. Ships/Fleets get orders you never gave or refuse your orders.(No Intel) Not all your forces just a handfull now and again. Also I have noticed that this is happening with research. It untoggles Repeat Project and fills out the research list with its own projects. Both instances the ministers were never toggled or ships/fleets put under comp control. It seem that if you activate all ministers and deactivate all ministers things go back to normal for a while. Of course this doesn't help when an experienced fleet is guarding a warpoint, disbands, then scatters in several directions.

[Q]

1.) If your empire reached the "maximum units in space" limit, you are unable to launch fighters during combat and they are therefore almost completely useless...
except for...
2.) In ground combat it is impossible to take over a planet if fighters remain on the planet.

[Q]

Atrocities wrote:
"1. Stratigy "Capture Planet" does not work when fully loaded troop transports are present in the fleet."
In my experience this works very well!

"6. AI expands too rapidly."

What do you mean by this???

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[CW]

The "Use Component" command does not work with fleets, even if all the ships have the component installed. This makes the Emergency Propulsion Pod useless as a quick get-away device.

[Aub]

Handling resupply:

- the resupply minister will work for fleets only, didn't work when I tried it for individual ships

Attacking:

- the "attack" order does not work in sim. games if any ministers (e.g. resupply) are on for a ship/fleet.