Just a few bugs

Bugs I see in 1.06

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I think the game is quite fun and addictive, but I see several bugs that are annoying:

1.)  The city names on the map sometimes show a different city name, though the details at the bottom of the page are always correct.  Sometimes the city name is one of my cities, sometimes an opponents city.

2.)  After taking over an opponents city, it remained stuck at level 1 and would not upgrade no matter how many people it had.

3.)  After several tactical battles, the sound effects would just stop silent while the music played on.  This problem is fixed by exiting the game and restarting it.

4.)  The game does not work with a screen saver in Windows XP SP3.  When the screen saver kicks in, it will never go away and when you try to abort the Elemental application, the computer locks up.

5.)  The online help manual could use a great deal of improvement.  A large number of gameplay features are completely missing from the manual.

6.)  Sometimes when you attack, you don't get a tactical screen.  It just autoresolves.  This is usually when one side or the other has only one unit, but not always.  If tactical battles are chosen, then they should always happen.

I'm sure there are others I just can't remember right now after playing for hours.

Once they are all fixed, this could be a really great game.

John

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

1.)  The city names on the map sometimes show a different city name, though the details at the bottom of the page are always correct.  Sometimes the city name is one of my cities, sometimes an opponents city.

2.)  After taking over an opponents city, it remained stuck at level 1 and would not upgrade no matter how many people it had.

Are you sure it was an oponents city and not one owned by the mobs?

3.)  After several tactical battles, the sound effects would just stop silent while the music played on.  This problem is fixed by exiting the game and restarting it.

4.)  The game does not work with a screen saver in Windows XP SP3.  When the screen saver kicks in, it will never go away and when you try to abort the Elemental application, the computer locks up.

5.)  The online help manual could use a great deal of improvement.  A large number of gameplay features are completely missing from the manual.

6.)  Sometimes when you attack, you don't get a tactical screen.  It just autoresolves.  This is usually when one side or the other has only one unit, but not always.  If tactical battles are chosen, then they should always happen.

This has been covered.... several times... set the battle threshold thing in options to 0 (no limit). Of course if issue 5 wasn't around people might figure it out on their own.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Thanks dude.

#2 was definitely an opponents city.  It was listed in the Kingdoms list.  I later read in another faq that some other faction citys aren't supposed to upgrade by design.

I'll look for and try the battle threshold option.

 

Here's a new quirk.  My king got married.  Had a kid.  The kid aged to 5 years old.  The king and his wife stayed at age 28 the whole time from initial marriage to 5 year old kid.  PLUS the 5 year old kid was still shown in a picture on the dynasty page as being in a crib.  What 5 year old do you know who still sleeps in a crib???

Too funny.

Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

#2 If you take a minor nation settlement it will not expand. Even if you take it from another Empire, this Empire probably got the settlement from a minor nation. I think its a bug...

I once captured a minor nation which had two resources just outside its influence limit (which is small), but it NEVER expanded :(