[0.51] Updated Feedback & Bugs

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Updated and amended:

Ideology Issues

1) Mindfulness says it applies to "your first 3 worlds," but it actually seems to apply to many more... all 20 of my planets in a current game have the mindfulness bonus.

2) Pragmatism is adding the Gross Income bonus but not the Research bonus.

3) Some options don't subtract points when unlocked. So far, I've found this to be true of Empathy, Pragmatism, Prominence, Beacon, and Affinity.

Rally Point Issues

1a) You can send ships beyond their range using rally points.

1b) You can send constructors beyond their range and build star bases.

2) When you open the shipyard "Set Shipyard Destination" screen, sometimes the "Rally Points" tab doesn't work. It seems to consistently not work when you first open the screen and attempt to click that tab first. If you click any of the other tabs, you can then select "Rally Points." When you select the "Rally Points" tab and it doesn't work, you hear an audible *click* and the word is highlighted as if it is selected (shown below), but the filter is not applied.

Ship Destination Screen

Visual Issues

1) When zoomed in past the tactical view, ships sometimes "vibrate" when moving, and around corners, they show up for a frame or two pointed in different directions.

2) Upon reload, trade route paths still don't display properly. They are quite annoying.

Trade Route

3) Planet images in the right-hand planet screen seem to display at varying sizes still.

Planet Textures

4) Still lots of text display issues inside tool tips, in Galactic Events, and in Colonization Events.

Text Box

5) Two of Age of War manufacturing specialization techs don't display properly:

Manufacturing Techs

6) When you select Research Project, the research production figures on the planet don't change unless you move either the production wheel or the manufacturing/shipyard slider.

7) Similar to #6, if you adjust the planet's production, the changes are not reflected in the manufacturing queue until you either add something to the queue or reopen the planet screen.

8) What is "Raw Research" and why does there seem to be no equivalent in manufacturing? In manufacturing, everything seems to be percentage modifiers (though what is being modified isn't clear in the tool tips--it should be). But in research and in income, there are "raw" or "gross" figures, respectively. What determines these figures? The tool tips are lacking here as there is no indication of where the base numbers originate--they are present (because the manufacturing percentages are obviously modifying something), but they are not being displayed or explained.

Ship Designer Issues

1) Components no longer remain selected after being placed. In Beta 1, you could set a component to a certain size, rotation, etc. and place multiple. Now, you have to reconfigure each repeated component one by one. This is tedious.

Mechanics Issues

1) When the manufacturing queue is empty, please make it so all manufacturing automatically goes to any connected shipyard. Right now, the only solution is to manually set the slider to 100% shipyard, but then if an upgrade becomes available, you have to manually reset the slider or change every planet's production using the global reset...

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

A few more issues:

1) When you gain the Elevation Foundation ideology improvement, it upgrades the Missionary Center as expected, but then the Missionary center is available again (only one more can be built).

2) Tourism seems to be way overpowered. A newly colonized world with a population of 3 on its first turn without any improvements--and with production set to 50% manufacturing and 50% research--is generating 16bc in tourism. Almost all of my income is generated via tourism--see economy screen below.

Economy

3) Trade route income doesn't seem affected when income of initiating planet changes. I have a planet with a Net Income of 60.4 (39.9 from Gross Income, 32 from Tourism, and -11.4 Maintenance). Trade Route value is 10.9, with a 1.9 modifier from the planet incomes. When I change this planet to 100 Manufacturing (0.0 Gross Income), the trade route value actually increased the next turn to 11.1 (2.1 from planet incomes). After a few changes with no change, I reconfigured the planet at 100% economy, and the trade route's value didn't change, though the following turn the income reduced to 10 (though in the tooltip, it still said 11).

4) Ship paths don't always display numbers properly. It seems that zoom level affects this, and if you click to move the ship, the numbers seem to reappear regardless of zoom. Below are two screen captures of the same exact ship's path, one with numbers and one without depending on the zoom.

Path with Numbers

Path without Numbers

You may also notice at the bottom of the first image, the blue ZOC boundary is still visible at the edge of the map through fog.

That's it for now...

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Some minor visual bugs:

1) at one point in the Akari Malara animation, some of her hair stands up on the left side of her head (viewer's right), and then the animation flickers.

2) in the trading screen, some of the numbers that show how many techs, colonies, etc. are very difficult to read because they blend in to the background (blue numbers against blue background elements).

Star Control: Origins
Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Two more issues I've noticed in 0.51:

1) Free trade agreements can be purchased from other races again and again, and the +5% bonus applies each time as "Diplomatic Agreement."

2) Strange text behavior (displays past borders) in diplomacy screen, treaties tab:

Diplomacy Treaties Screen