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Mouse focus problem in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Still getting a problem with keyboard/mouse focus. See ftp://tonn.ca/gc_focus4D.jpg I don't even know what the event screen is that has popped up behind the rest of them. I never saw it. It was like this immediately after I closed all the ship/social building projects. I had to close the game via the task manager. Here are the last entries in debug.err: Debug Message: =================AI Players Turn =================== Debug Message: Make Ship Leave Orbit: Brad Versio

Reply to 4D - Balance gone, threading problems? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Rather than betting on who is the better player, consider that you may have found a legitimate bug at the genius level of the AI. Make your saved games available to stardock and other players. If you don't have an easy channel to do so, upload them to ftp://tonn.ca/incoming and I'll move them to the default anonymous area for download. (incoming is write only, anonymous is readonly). You could also try the AI at the average and smart level to compare with the genius level.

Reply to Beta 4B available in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I'm not sure what you mean by a "Done" button showing up. Both the events that caused my focus problem have a "choice" you must make before they activate any other buttons. I could never select any of the "choices" on the event screen in the background. I even tried clicking many times all over the general area where the choices must be to activate the button to get out of the event. Nada..

Reply to Beta 4B available in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Got another focus problem with events. See the screen capture here. ftp://tonn.ca/gc_focus.jpg You can see the event screen in the right side. It looks like it is waiting for a user response, and is holding the keyboard/mouse click focus. But the mouse scrolling is still attached to the main screen. I can move the galaxy view to different sectors but I cannot select anything - even the menu. I can't find a way to dismiss the event screen in the background either.

Reply to Beta 4B available in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Had another case where the graphs show a massive drop when I save and then restore a game. This time it isn't in the population, it is in the influence graph. See ftp://tonn.ca/gc4b_sr.jpg for a screen shot. I didn't catch it right away because I didn't select influence until a while later, but it is obvious in the screen shot.

Reply to Beta 4B available in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Just found a new bug. Fresh turn, I get the selection about dangerous mining and which choice to I want (no mining, mining with drones, etc). Immediately after that I get a election screen which I respond to. Then the normal series of screens for the planets which have finished a project. After that I get a wierd mixture of the normal galaxy screen without the graphs. I can see part of the mining choice screen in the background. I can't select it, nor can I select anything on the normal g

Reply to Beta 4B available in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Tweaks and observations.. First some kudos. This is very playable and a lot of bugs are squashed. Need to tweak/disable the sentry and guard "mouse over popups". The timing of the popup can sometimes interfere and you end up with the help screen rather than setting a ship to sentry (irritating). Not sure what is happening, but when I save a game and later resume it, the population graph shows a temporary drop in all civs populations. It also seems to affect the

Reply to Beta 3E in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Found a wierd bug with the pirates. They started attacking my planets, but ignoring my ships. When I tried to attack them, my ships wouldn't attack (similar to the effect when you try and drive a constructor over another race's station). I have a saved and zipped game that shows this behaviour.

Reply to Beta 3D report in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Beta 3D feedback.. The sentry and guard buttons are very sensitive as to mouse placement. In fact it seems inconsistent. I can place the mouse in what looks like the exact position on the button as I used the previous time, and it doesn't set sentry (or guard). It brings up the "rename ship" dialog. I have had 3 games where my finances screen shows a large net income, yet I continually lose money at every turn. No matter how I adjust for a larger net income, I lose money (

Reply to DGM Updated - 0.66.083 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I like Jack's idea of softening up the date/time check, but why worry about the seconds at all? How often will a REAL update be in the same minute as a previous one?

Can't research Cultural Trade in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I have a game where I can't seem to finish researching Cultural Trade. I get to a certain point and it just won't stay selected anymore when I take a turn. I even tried using an analomy to finish it. Saved Game directory tree available.

Reply to Planet class improvements on OS2 - how did the work again? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I seem to remember it was an "achievement" (Crystal something?) that only one planet could get, but it would upgrade all your inhabited planets by one class. Since it was an achievement, no other planet could chose to work on it after completion. But if you conquered another race's planet that happened to be working on this achievement you could let it run to completion and all your planets would be upgraded an additional class. If you did this for all the races (your's plus the other 5),

Reply to Crash to desktop when clicking on a tiny freighter of a dead race. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Same crash, but I suspect it is the same problem, but different situation. I took over a planet that had previously been taken over by another race. It had a couple of freighters left on it. When the planet is subsequently attacked, the game crashes to the desktop.. I have a saved game right up to the point of the crash if anyone wants it (it was a good game too!).