Gyrfalcon wrote:Also, I'm seeing some graphical glitches where some of the missiles disappear and reappear in flight and ships that Retreat reappear briefly back where they started after the animation showing them doing the warp-flash runs.

Yeah, I've seen this happen occasionally myself. I have some theories about why it's happening... But, if you can find a replication pattern that consistently causes a flicker to occur, please post it here.

sven wrote:Yeah, I've seen this happen occasionally myself. I have some theories about why it's happening... But, if you can find a replication pattern that consistently causes a flicker to occur, please post it here.

Every time I Retreat ships or my opponent Retreats ships, I see the ships reappear until all the other animations complete (until the missiles finish moving). I'm also pretty sure the missile flicker is consistent, although it may be just when the missiles are flying in a straight horizontal line.

Gyrfalcon wrote:

sven wrote:Yeah, I've seen this happen occasionally myself. I have some theories about why it's happening... But, if you can find a replication pattern that consistently causes a flicker to occur, please post it here.

Every time I Retreat ships or my opponent Retreats ships, I see the ships reappear until all the other animations complete (until the missiles finish moving). I'm also pretty sure the missile flicker is consistent, although it may be just when the missiles are flying in a straight horizontal line.

Hrm, yes. It's not all retreats, but, it's certainly pretty common. Missile impacts animated during the same time block as a retreat animation may be reliably problematic. I've got the flicker replicating now. I'll see what I can make of this... Many thanks.

I have seen missiles become momentarily invisible, but only once or twice and only recently. I believe one of the occasions was when I was retreating.

Arioch wrote:I have seen missiles become momentarily invisible, but only once or twice and only recently. I believe one of the occasions was when I was retreating.

Well, I found and fixed a couple little bugs that seemed to be behind this behavior. Let me know if you see flickering in any builds >= r12732 (just posted to 'stable'.).

(Playing on dev r12738)

Shift-selecting more than 15 ships results in an error in ui\TacticalContext.cpp, line:967 (sent via game client).
This error is not ignorable in-battle, but is ignorable at the main map.

Trying to place the tenth race onto a colony results in a screen going black and the error telling that the vector isn't meant to have length more than 6 appears (also sent, probably game_293).
Nine races on the same planet are fine, though.

I still don't get why if I'm attacking, the enemy starts the battle, but if I'm defending, I move first.
I believe, it should be vice-versa.

I originally posted this in the bug report archive thread. I guess here is much more appropriate... Can a mod please delete the post from the archive thread?

Awaras wrote:A small graphical bug:



In the information window for the lab where it is shown how much research each lab tier generates, the icons for the first and second tier are the same.

Another thing I just noticed about that screenshot which I am not sure if it is a bug or working as intended/not yet implemented:
While the description in the middle of the screen shows three different icons for three tiers of labs and factories, the icons in the upper right corner (in the build slots) never change when you unlock appropriate tech and always appear as if they are tier 2 (factory with two smokestacks, lab with three domes), even at the start of the game.

Awaras wrote: Another thing I just noticed about that screenshot which I am not sure if it is a bug or working as intended/not yet implemented:
While the description in the middle of the screen shows three different icons for three tiers of labs and factories, the icons in the upper right corner (in the build slots) never change when you unlock appropriate tech and always appear as if they are tier 2 (factory with two smokestacks, lab with three domes), even at the start of the game.

Ah. Looks like the game is falling back on some test art.... In the lower right-hand side of your Options pane, you should see a toggle that says "colored improvements". Turning this *off* will give you more consistent icons.

I believe that off is the current default for new installs, so, this is something you likely turned on yourself while testing. And, I think Arioch and I are now agreed that the flat-color improvement icons look better -- so, I should probably start hiding this option in new installs.

faijeya wrote:Shift-selecting more than 15 ships results in an error in ui\TacticalContext.cpp, line:967 (sent via game client).
This error is not ignorable in-battle, but is ignorable at the main map.

Should be fixed on dev (r12751).

faijeya wrote:Trying to place the tenth race onto a colony results in a screen going black and the error telling that the vector isn't meant to have length more than 6 appears (also sent, probably game_293).
Nine races on the same planet are fine, though.

Thanks for this report. I've fixed the 10+ races bug on dev (12750), but, that this error occurred at all is a sign that I probably need to adjust the racial traits a bit.

sven wrote:Ah. Looks like the game is falling back on some test art.... In the lower right-hand side of your Options pane, you should see a toggle that says "colored improvements". Turning this *off* will give you more consistent icons.

I believe that off is the current default for new installs, so, this is something you likely turned on yourself while testing. And, I think Arioch and I are now agreed that the flat-color improvement icons look better -- so, I should probably start hiding this option in new installs.

I see. Yes, I did turn on the 'colored improvements' option. Turning it off fixes the problem. Too bad, I kinda liked the colored icons. Oh well, whatever you guys think is best.

Awaras wrote:Too bad, I kinda liked the colored icons. Oh well, whatever you guys think is best.

The rendered icons are sexy, but I think the single-color ones are better at conveying information at a glance.

game_306 gave me an error right after I destroyed the last bit of orbital infrastructure, a Shipyard, around Menkent I. I couldn't get past it with Ignore Error, but was able to get past with Retry and finishing the battle again.

Gyrfalcon wrote:game_306 gave me an error right after I destroyed the last bit of orbital infrastructure, a Shipyard, around Menkent I. I couldn't get past it with Ignore Error, but was able to get past with Retry and finishing the battle again.

Hrm. Not entirely sure why this one was happening, but, it should be fixed on dev (r12789). Thanks for the report.

When I have multiple ships selected, they overrun the box on the bottom right and, when I have them fire their weapons, the beams come from the selected ships box as well as from the actual ship.

Heheh, that's a good one.