Late Game Idle Ship Error

Not exaplained in manual

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Once again I am in the late game phase of Gal Civ 3. This time the "idle ship" appears on the screen but is grayed out. Upon checking all of my many ships none of them are idle. Nothing I do moves the game forward. I have to exit and restart the game. This has happened three times in this one game. I love this game, but you need to fix this obvious error.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I would like to amend my post. It seems that this greyed out "idle ship" message appears no matter what I do so a game that had over 1000 turns is at an end, period. This is very frustrating and does not encourage me to play again fearing the same outcome.

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

same thing happened to me in one of 5 games with 1.3.2   I was only playing small maps so i only lost ~70 turns .... 1000+ bummer

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I too lost a game that way hundreds of turns in. The game started with 1.2, the bug occured with 1.3 opt-in (no, opting out didn't help).

I checked all the ships like the forum threads regarding this bug suggested, but no luck. I also declared war on everybody - I saw my ships move and the AIs attacked my fleets ... but at some point the turn still got stuck. So I suspect an AI ship is the cause.

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I read the links you gave me. It appears that others have this same problem. I actually thought someone involved with the program would respond but no lick. This looks like an error to me.

Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Thanks for reporting. Do you have a save game you can submit with this happening?

Reply #7 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Can you try again in the patch we released today?  We fixed several stuck turn issues