Bugs, Issues, ect.

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1) On the main page, in the description of Beta2, Brad said that more UP Issues have been added. I haven't seen any yet, and a quick check of the data directory reveals that there is still only one UPISSUE file, for the +2 Trade Routes.

What, exactly, should be there now?

2) Minor Races apparently can't trade ships. Was that intentional, or is this some odd bug?

3) The morality setup appears to be backwards. In older builds, races set to good had an alignment of '1.'

In the game I'm playing, the Altarians are apparently 'demonic.' After noting that, I checked the Domestic Policy/Status screen, and sure enough, evil acts drag alignment towards '1.'

Is the AI not coded to react appropriately for the setting at the start of the game (or is it able to change it slowly, as you do, and this just happens to be an extreme example), or is the initial setup indeed backwards from the rest of the game?


4) Some interesting things showed up in the debug.err after a system crash tonight. Oddly enough, ther crash itself wasn't particularly interesting, it was some of the other oddities that are more notable....

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*DEBUG ERROR: *** Unable to locate font Verdana06Race11, FTDataManager::FindFont ***
*DEBUG ERROR: *** Unable to locate font Verdana06Race12B, FTDataManager::FindFont ***
*DEBUG ERROR: *** Unable to locate font Verdana06Race12B, FTDataManager::FindFont ***
Debug Message: Attempt to play unregistered file
Debug Message: Attempt to play unregistered file
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Debug Message: Could not find animation titled Icon24Trans in model 0Starbase01 (PlayAnimation)
Debug Message: Could not find animation titled Icon24Trans in model 0Starbase01 (PlayAnimation)
Debug Message: Could not find animation titled Icon24Trans in model 0Starbase01 (PlayAnimation)
<<

Should the starbase be animated, either on the main screen or in the two related dialogs, or is this another quirk like the trade vessels were causing in an earlier build?

And incidentally, the game crashed while hitting the turn button after aquiring some colony ships from the Altarians. The last lines in the debug.err correspond to contacting the Alexians just prior to that.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
1) Um, I guess that Brad forgot to copy over the new files.

2)

3) It was backwards for the humans before, and we corrected it.

4) The minor races don't have their own color coded font yet, which explains the first error. Apparently we missed a few places to set a default font.

The Attempt to play unregistered file is either due to you not having the multimedia installed, or is again because of the minor races.

The final message was probably provoked by the game trying to put a starbase in the stacked ship list; apparently our artists didn't make the little icon for it yet.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
urgh...looks like I left 2 blank. I believe that it is intentional.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
I just noticed myself that some of my message is missing too.... It seems that the board attempts to interpret text between greater than signs as HTML tags instead of displaying it.



The 'attempt to play' did correspond to an attempt to contact the Scottlingas, so would seem to be either the game attempting to play non-existant bink animation or non-existant BGM for that race.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
non-existant music file, actually.