1.70a[b].001 is beta 2 (odd naming scheme). Beta 1 was 1.70[b].003. Of course, I could be mistaken and something is very wrong on my end .

EDIT: No. I'm sure that's Beta 2. Starting up DA shows "V1.7 Dark Avatar beta 2" on the lower left of the main menu.

Cari,

I loaded up that save game that used to die after one turn under beta 1 (an assert error, I believe). It doesn't die any more. Thanks.

I got strange bug, too. I upgraded a Medium Ship to a better version but instead of getting it made a strange devolution to a defender (or better it looks like one) with the name of the class to which it should have upgraded to. Oh, and the Logistic points said something like 173...37 (a very big number). After that I clicked on the ship, because I thought that I had caused it (somehow) and I got a trip back to my desktop ...



I Agree this is very annoying, specially when you are at war with a race and the miner cross one of it's battlefleets.

Do you have a save game from right before you tried to upgrade the ship?  If you do, please zip it and send it to me at carielf@stardock.com with detailed instructions on how to reproduce the bug.

 

I have submitted several crash reports where the game crashes when I try to save. I have included a save game which is the latest one I could save, after that - boom.

I submitted the reports while running beta 1 but I get the same behaviour in beta 2. So the problem seems to remain.

Nice. i see you guys are finally chipping away at the unnecessary little things that slow the game down. Keep chipping away at that rock and make it a work of art!  

Amazingly good, and Amazingly quick work Cari & company.

all three games with the Assert errors i had are now running perfect at 50+ turns each.

Couple quick suggestions, while you are looking at multiple decommisions on the new lease tab - is there a way to set up upgrades from the same tab, and a step further, allow for "fleet" upgrades? (ie instead of upgrading one at a time, or all.. upgrade all ships of X type in this fleet?)

Govener's are nice, as i emailed though it would be a bit more useful if we had a govener based on planet construction to waypoint. ie all planets building X ship go to Y rally point.

AI work still needs to be done methinks with the cpu controled civ's not producing survey modules, and leaving resource mines untapped mid/late game, but Brad is mostlikly aware of this.

Oh, a suggestion. Can you add a super-slow tech tree? Or better yet, a multiplier you have for the tech speed. EX: You want a really slow tree, so you type in 5 and the techs are 5 times slower. Or if you're insane, 20 times! For the extremely patient. You could always customize how long it would take. User friendly too!

Since immense galaxies will be eventually implemented, the slow tech tree might be normal if you get enough planets, so i want to making GRUELING for anyone to fully complete a tech tree. (And make the "Tech Victory" tech actually matter in a conquest game. Make it give you different super powers depending on your tech tree, alignment, and super ability. Or make it a gateway to supertechs only the ascended energy beings can wield!)

Ofcourse with that speed getting to war would take a while. Could there be a way to give each race atleast one starting weapon?

PS: This question might not pertain to this thread, but about the Terrorstars. They can move around and blow up stars, but can they attack ships? I remember in Galciv1 it could blow up a sun, but it couldn't take out a chinsy fighter, how lame!

Ummm Death Star?? That too could not take out a snub nosed fighter hence why it had Tie Fighters I kinda like the idea that they are not overly tough, it means they are basically a super cargo ship with a big gun

I've just finished my first all-abundant gigantic game ever. 1.7 beta 2 seems rock-solid, definitely an improvement over the previous versions. Though I won't do another gigantic game anytime soon, so many planets

Anyhow, there are a few problems with beta 2:

Auto-survey vessels
I got quite a lot of them to make sure I really get every single anomaly.
I got _tons_ of "No more anomalies available, surveying disabled" messages. Furthermore, this message was misleading. Some survey vessels were indeed idle after that, while some others were in some sort of survey-standby mode, waiting for new anomalies to spawn. I couldn't see any pattern. Just fix the bugs and get rid of the "nothing to do" messages, then it'll be perfect.

Sitrep

...or what ever that small dialog is called you get on every turn with the list of improvements/ships built, amongst other things. I cannot scroll it with my mousewheel.

Diplomacy screen

Trading influence points needs some improvements. If I put all my BC as offer and then select influence points from the AI, it should automatically select the maximum possible amount of points.
Furthermore, the +/- 1 on scrollbar, +/- 10 on spincontrol. That's a little bit few if the AI has several million IP.
Suggestion: Let the small +/- buttons accelerate, the longer you click and hold them, the faster it scrolls

Diplomacy screen part 2

Trying to find the first planet AI is willing to trade with me.
1. Add all your BC to trade.
2. Select first two AI planets for and
3. untrade them in reverse order.
4. Goto 2 until the trade becomes green or no more untried planets.
Problem: During the adding steps, if you click too fast, the second click registers as doubleclick and three planets are added to the trade. Disable doubleclicks in these lists!
In addition, it would be best to just add some small "Give me the first damn planet AI is willing to trade me for my BC" button. Would save me a LOT of work.

I'm back!

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1. Auto-survey


Looks like someone beat me to it... I'll comment anyways.

Yes, the auto-survey command is buggy. The first time I used it, it worked fine, but after a while I checked upon my survey ship. It wasn't doing anything. It appears that it works once, but fails afterwards.

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2. Leases and maintaince tab


Works good now. Keep up the good work.

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3. Re-route ship types

Its name is inaccurate.

Its name suggests that all existing ships of a given type are re-routed to a specific rally point, but it doesn't do that. It instead re-routes colony rally points for colonies building a given type of ships.

I think it should be called "re-route ship production". It would be much more accurate.

Anyone else having problems where your ships won't move?

That remind me, The survey ship "know" where all the anomalies too when u put it in auto survey.
I not sure but it's possible that the AI know all the ships and objects too in the fog of war.

A nice feature would be to have some way of telling survey ships NOT to go after wormholes when auto-surveying. This is especially important now that anomalies regenerate. I don't like it when my survey ship goes for a wormhole while a bunch of newly spawned anomalies are right around it.

I'm in the midst of a DA 1.7 Beta 2 game (Large, Tough). The build seems rock solid. No crashes at all (congratulations!). The only thing I've noticed is that two races declared war on me without declaring war. The first I found out we were at war was when they attacked one of my planets. It's possible I could have missed it, but I thought I'd bring it up and see if anyone else is seeing it.