BTS Bugs?

[Virdrago]

On RFC, there's a button by the logs that looks like a hammer. Every time I accidentally brush against it with the mouse (like when I'm changing my science rate), it kicks me back to the desktop. I don't know what this useless looking button is, but I have to be careful not to hit it when I'm scrolling, or I have to reload the game.

In the regular game, my workers have started to change my farms and hill mines into cottages (why?!), or more annoyingly, my towns and villages and watermills (but not the unused cottage) into farms, when I put them on automated trade routes. Didn't that used to only have them build roads?

[MattDoyle]

I have also noticed the automated trade routes doing wierd things such as choping down trees and building lumbermills. I have it set to not replace old improvements though.

[joncnunn]

I've noticed some graphical display/ video card issues in BTS that did not appear in Warlords. Most of these have a workaround of minimize BTS and then come back. Basically when it happens the wrong graphics start displaying (in order of most frequent to least frequent: unit on the bottom; actions on the bottom, resource overlay)

There's also an occansional crash starting BTS at all; when that occurs every subequent attempt to start will crash until the M$ fix of reboot is applied. This also did not occur under Warlords.

In addition, there appears to be a leaderhead bug in multiple leaders in the final frontier mod. (This includes the leader which is 2nd from the top). The topmost leader is fine. Some of the others crash and some of the others are fine.

Also: the Afterworld mod appears to be missing a way to look at the encyopledia for that mod.

Edit: I just noticed there is already a patch out for BTS (303) so some of the above entries may already have been fixed.

[Shrapnel12]

Over the weekend, I became very frustrated with Bts after running into a possible bug. Playing the NextWar mod at normal speed but on a huge war map, I was well into the game (had corporations and tanks) when I ended my last turn and it seemed to have entered an infinite loop. Turns seem to take a little time as it is, so I went to put my son to bed. This took at least ten minutes and when I returned, the game was still "Waiting on other Civilizations". The wierd part was that I could still move around and look at things and it even let me enter some of the advisory screens. I couldn't do anything else though and had to alt-ctrl-delete to end my game and start over. Has anyone found a similar problem and possibly know a fix?

[Proteus_MST]

Maybe one of the other civs formed a colony.

This already taks sme time durin the Renaissance when there are only few cities, maybe it even takes much longer in the modern times when nations are much bigger

[Shrapnel12]

I think that is unlikely. I'm 90% sure none of the other civs have settled the New World. I'm 99% certain they have no more then 1 city on the New World.

[Adm.Naismith]

Originally posted by Shrapnel12
when I returned, the game was still "Waiting on other Civilizations". The wierd part was that I could still move around and look at things and it even let me enter some of the advisory screens. I couldn't do anything else though and had to alt-ctrl-delete to end my game and start over. Has anyone found a similar problem and possibly know a fix?

Yes, I've mentioned the same (and others) problems I've encountered in BTS in this same thread, just few posts before yours (see my post at page 5).

It seems (by Solver hint) it's a know bug, to be addressed by Firaxis programmer by a new build (a patch), hopefully available in a few weeks (but this is my guess, not a Firaxis, nor Solver promise AFAIK).

[OliverFA]

This one looks like a bug to me...

I exchange Communism + 25 gold against Steel to Hannibal. And just after that, the F4 changes to say that he can't change two techs that he hasn't researched yet...

[SpencerH]

I've noticed that some of my automated workers dont seem to work. I've noticed it late in the game but I havent yet ID'd when it starts. For example, I'll have discovered railroad and notice that the RR isnt spreading very fast. When I check the cities I'll find workers that arent working. They haven t "lost" the automated command since clicking on it again wont cuase them to head out and work. They will perform automated work though if I tell them to create a network between specific tiles.

[SpencerH]

Hey maybe this thread should be topped. Just who is moderating this forum anyway?

[Willem]

Originally posted by MattDoyle
I have also noticed the automated trade routes doing wierd things such as choping down trees and building lumbermills. I have it set to not replace old improvements though.

I've been noticing strange things on that setting as well. Previously those Workers hooked up resources and built roads and nothing else. But now they're acting much like a regular automated worker, building Cottages and other things they really shouldn't.

And I've seen the regular automated workers chopping down trees even though I have "leave Forests alone" set in my options. So far it's only happened with tiles that will eventually get a Plantation. The Workers will chop down the Forest and build a Cottage.

[Adm.Naismith]

Originally posted by SpencerH
Hey maybe this thread should be topped. Just who is moderating this forum anyway?

I've the feeling this expansion is getting worst coverage ever by Apolyton, as far as I can remember.

May be they are embarassed of the poor quality of the expansion: lots of trouble, imbalanced use of resources and units... may be I'm biased because of my personal experience, and this is my first Civilization game running under Vista (a problem by itself).

Still the game have a "Vista Game" logo, and my notebook have plenty of power to cope with.

I understand why Firaxis is developing for game consolle.

[Aro]

I’m experiencing CTD’s when accessing certain topics on the Civpedia. An example: I point to “Praetorian”… Sometimes it seems ok, I got the right info. But if I try to access “swordsman” from there, the game crashes. Sometimes, the first unit I try crashes the game. This seems to happen just with the “Units” topic.
Suggestions?

[Willem]

Originally posted by Aro
I’m experiencing CTD’s when accessing certain topics on the Civpedia. An example: I point to “Praetorian”… Sometimes it seems ok, I got the right info. But if I try to access “swordsman” from there, the game crashes. Sometimes, the first unit I try crashes the game. This seems to happen just with the “Units” topic.
Suggestions?

If you're patched to version 3.03, apparently that patch causes a number of problems with the Civilopedia.

[joncnunn]

I had the crashes in the Civilopedia on the CD version as well. They still appear to be there in 303.

Originally posted by Willem

If you're patched to version 3.03, apparently that patch causes a number of problems with the Civilopedia.