4.01 Invasion bug - bad numbers reported

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Hi,

I've suddenly got a bug that when I invade a planet I get a silly number of my own alleged legions (nine figures so presumably a number type mismatch). If I add in an invasion method (information warfare etc) then the number reverts to what it should be. I've tried verifying the files a coupe, of times but it's persisting.

Anybody else?

I don't have a planet to invade at this instant but will in a couple of moves  and can then post a screen shot.

Cheers,

Jon

 

 

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Okay here is a screenshot of an uncontested invasion

 

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Sorry to hear you are having trouble.

If you have a savegame where this is reproducible it would help a lot if you uploaded it to a cloud service (DropBox, Google Drive, One Drive) and post a link here, the developers can take a look at it.

Savegames are located in \Documents\My Games\GC3\Saves or \Documents\My Games\GC3Crusade\Saves

Thank you for your patience and patronage.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Hi Rhonin,

Many thansk for your v prompt reply. 

This one isn't a huge bug just mildly annoying. If the planet isn't defended it doesn't matter at all but if it is you'd like to know whether to bother to enhance  the attack with one of the invasion techs. 

Please load this save: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O0W6_j-rB9ca5ntV0MJNRnCoBsHfkTjK/view?usp=sharing

and take any Drengin planet you choose. - Saturos is the closest. 

 

On my machine at the moment this gets reported as some large number of troops invading starting with 146....

in fact 1460288896 

As I said, I've tried validating the files.  I guess I will restart steam and then reboot to see if that solves it if it isn't a replicable error.

Cheers,

 

Jon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Okay I rebooted obviously then restarted stream validated the files which gave errors and restarted the game. The result was identical with the same number reported so either the game file has got corrupted or there is a wider bug.

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I have also seen these type of numbers.  I found a screenshot from earlier this year showing what I saw.

I didn't report it and didn't provide a save, so good for you that you did both.

I don't know why, but later in the game the invasion numbers were normal again.  I haven't seen these large numbers in any game since then.

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

Hi Old-Spider

Interesting that you too were invading a Drengin planet. I wondered whether there might be some multiplier for them which had got misplaced so tested this by declaring war on a random  opponent from a save (Iconian in fact) but got exactly the same result. 

Cheers,

Jon

 

 

 

Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top

After learning some more invasion that bug  evaporated but I have a new one - anon entry in the list of planets - which I'm posting in a new thread.

Cheers,

Jon