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[zsozso]

BugID: #0045, Units_Bouncing_Back
Submitter: Urban Ranger, decipher@hknet.com
Version: Alien Crossfire
Category: Movement
Status: Confirmed
Priority: 4
Save before: N/A (not available)
Save after:
Description: Units sometimes "bounce back" when moving. I suspect this is probably caused by
insufficient movement points. You could actually see a unit attempting to move into a
square but bounces to where it was moving from. However, this also reveals new terrain
as if that unit has moved into its destination. This does not occur if you have sent a unit to
some faraway location. It only happens when you move it square by square.

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[zsozso]

BugID: #0046, Square_Sharing
Submitter: zsozso, zsolt@simbiosys.ca
Version: Alien Crossfire
Category: Movement
Status: Demonstrated
Priority: 4
Save before: http://CR190515-A.hnsn1.on.wave.home...C/ABL0046b.zip
Save after: http://CR190515-A.hnsn1.on.wave.home...C/ABL0046a.zip
Description: A fungal tower has appeared underneath my unit! The unit was sitting on that square for
several turns killing worms. Then suddenly, I notice that a fungal tower has grown in the
very same square! I thought units of different faction can only occupy the same square if
the factions are in pact. Guess what, I was not in pact with Planet.
Actually, quite the contrary: wild life was 'visiting' (more like raping) me in great numbers
in response to my heavy pollution (nerve gas treatment of 30+ usurper bases => global
warming raises sea levels by 3200 feet within 20 turns - never seen that drastic effect
ever before). So, planet wanted to spawn a lot of native units in my territory and
it may not have found enough empty squares - or just did not care ?

About the saves demonstrating the bug: the tile in question is at (9,29) coordinates.
The save before has only my unit on the square, but the save after (next turn) has a
fungal tower on the same square too.


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[zsozso]

BugID: #0047, Independent_Support
Submitter: zsozso, zsolt@simbiosys.ca
Version: Both AX and AC4
Category: Rules
Status: Pending
Priority: 3
Save before: N/A (not available)
Save after:
Description: Sometimes independent Unity units or captured worms suddenly become supported by
a nearby base. Couldn't figure out what triggers it. First noticed it, when I put an
independent captured worm on patrol near a base. But then later I noticed in other cases
when I did not use any ptarolling at all. Happens even without the unit ever getting inside
the base.

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[zsozso]

BugID: #0048, Facility_Transfer
Submitter: zsozso, zsolt@simbiosys.ca
Bblue, gsshell@aol.com
Version: Both AX and AC4
Category: Base
Status: Demonstrated
Priority: 4
Save before: http://CR190515-A.hnsn1.on.wave.home...C/ABL0048b.zip
Save after: http://CR190515-A.hnsn1.on.wave.home...C/ABL0048a.zip
http://CR190515-A.hnsn1.on.wave.home...C/ABL0003a.zip
Description: Sometimes when taking over a base of Yang or University, their default base
enhancement (perimeter defense/network node) gets transferred to my HQ, i.e. it
disappears from the conquered base and appears in my HQ which did not have such
facility and was not even building it. Does not happen always, maybe only when I am
taking over their HQ ?

Note on save files (ABL0048b,ABL0048a): The 'before' save (ABL0048b,MY.2190)
shows Gaia's Landing with no Network Node, currently building The Empath Guild SP
(91/240, 17 turns left to complete), and a Gaian worm standing beside
University Base. The 'after' save (ABL0048a,MY.2191) shows next turn, after
the Gaian worm has taken over University base - which does not have Network
Node anymore, on the other hand a Network Node appeared in Gaia's Landing,
which is still building The Empath Guild SP (100/240, 16 turns left).

Save file from Bblue (ABL0003a.zip): This save has
a custom faction that gets free Geosyn. Survey Pods as a freebie I think it
should load alright since the Faction info (other then graphics) are saved
with the save file, you may need to open this one to make sure it can be
opened without the custom faction file (game should choose some default
graphics). Believers HQ New Jerusalam has a Geosyn. Survey Pod while my
citys Anvil of Man and The Voice of God don't.

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[zsozso]

BugID: #0049, Reserach_Points
Submitter: aceplayer, aceplayer@earthlink.net
Version: Alien Crossfire | Alpha Centauri v4 | Both AX and AC4
Category: Rules
Status: Pending
Priority: 4
Save before: N/A (not available)
Save after:
Description: year 2206 I had 9 years to go to tech breakthrough, but got it by year 2208. I didnt build
any more labs. The weird thing is that F2 said I was getting 21.6 a year, but I actually got
112 in 2207 and 54 in 2208. The 21.6 number was correct - I verified that.

I have posted screen snapshots of the bug here
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare...g_pic_2205.zip

This bug occurred in a PBEM game, but I dont know if that's relevent.

It hard to read so these are the numbers:
game year,years needed,years left,cost,accumulated,tech per turn
2206,66,9,1187,1039,18
2207,55,2,1187,1151,21.6
2208,61,60,1304,18,21.6


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[zsozso]

BugID: #0050, Mind_Worm_Popup
Submitter: zsozso, zsolt@simbiosys.ca
Version: Both AX and AC4
Category: Movement
Status: Pending
Priority: 4
Save before: N/A (not available)
Save after:
Description: Mind worms popup on squares where I just walked through, e.g. I have 2 worms on
fungus square, move one 3 fungus squares in a straight line, then try to follow with the
other one on same path, but suddenly it bumps into a wild worm!

I mean, it is OK, that mind worms can be hiding and pop up in any fungus square, BUT
shouldn't on a square I just walked through! It does not make any sense...

It is obviously programmed in a lazy way, that every time you try to step on a fungus
square, there is some random chance for a wild mind worm to be found. However, the
program should check if the same player has already moved a unit through this square in
the same turn and disable this random event for those squares.


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[zsozso]

BugID: #0051, Humanoid_Aliens
Submitter: Aaron Lawrence, njescort@aol.com
Gnome, jareth@gate.net
Tau Ceti, larsheg@sensewave.com
Version: Alien Crossfire
Category: Diplomacy
Status: Demonstrated
Priority: 4
Save before: http://CR190515-A.hnsn1.on.wave.home...C/ABL0051b.zip
Save after: N/A
Description: Sometimes the alien factions will in dialogue make reference to being
human! If I see them do it again I'll write down the exact quotes & conditions.

Gnome: Some part of this bug has been fixed by patch v2! I tested it using the
patched version and now the aliens ask you in their own patterns of
speech to abandon Green economics.

Tau Ceti: They may have fixed the complaints about not running Planned economics, but there
are still cases where Progenitors are treated as humans. For example I have seen
someone say "I have located the settlements of our former colleague H'minee..."
Save: When I was playing the Usurpers, Svensgaard said "I've heard rumors of an
alien race living here on Planet, led by one calling itself H'minee. Is this true? (...)",
and one of my possible answers was "Aliens, you say? Oh my. Nope, haven't heard
a word."

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[zsozso]

BugID: #0052, Pact_Units
Submitter: Vi Vicdi, gderrick@dashlink.com
Bblue, gsshell@aol.com
Version: Both AX and AC4
Category: Rules
Status: Demonstrated
Priority: 3
Save before: N/A (not available)
Save after: http://CR190515-A.hnsn1.on.wave.home...C/ABL0052a.zip
Description: If an AI pact sibling of another AI declares vendetta on that AI within 1 turn, none of the
1st AI's units get moved out of the 2nd AI's bases!

Now the declaration of war came in-between turns, not at my behest through the
diplomacy screen, so if you test it via diplomacy and find no bugs, you're looking in the
wrong place. I don't know if getting an AI to vendetta a pacted AI from the diplomacy
screen exhibits this bug or not.

While I was waiting for my turn, a message appeared on the bottom of the screen that
said, "Sister Miriam sends word that she has declared Vendetta on the Pirates!" or
something like that. When my turn rolled around, oops!, there were her needlejets, parked
in his bases!

I have a save file if needed.

Save file from Bblue: The UoP went from Pact brothers to Vendetta during my turn due to a little
diplomacy. but the UoP units were not removed from Definance Freehold.

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[zsozso]

BugID: #0053, Boreholes
Submitter: R A Spottiswood, raspotts@tik.com.au
Version: Alien Crossfire
Category: Rules
Status: Pending
Priority: 4
Save before: N/A (not available)
Save after:
Description: The restrictions on boreholes seem to have vanished. I built
one (without realising it at the time) at a location next to an area with significantly different
height. More spectacularly, I found that Domai built three boreholes in a line with no
squares between them. It was not some weird form of the Borehole Cluster either,
because that is in a different area.
Darkstar: Computer builds Boreholes next to each other. Human can't.
Save File: Available


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[zsozso]

BugID: #0054, Vendetta_Info
Submitter: R A Spottiswood, raspotts@tik.com.au
Version: Both AX and AC4
Category: Diplomacy
Status: Pending
Priority: 3
Save before: N/A (not available)
Save after:
Description: I think this bug might be a hold-over from SMAC. I have infiltrated all factions, but
I am not always informed of the start of a Vendetta, even when one of those involved is a
Pact Sister.


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[zsozso]

BugID: #0055, Attitude_Save
Submitter: R A Spottiswood, raspotts@tik.com.au
Version: Alien Crossfire | Alpha Centauri v4 | Both AX and AC4
Category: UI
Status: Pending
Priority: 4
Save before: N/A (not available)
Save after:
Description: Also, there is a bug of sorts that resets all listed the "moods" to Noncommital after
the game is saved and then loaded. Sometimes it appears to keep listing these even though
I've talked to someone and found out their real attitude is very different.


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[zsozso]

BugID: #0056, Interlude_Mixup
Submitter: R A Spottiswood, raspotts@tik.com.au
Version: Alien Crossfire
Category: UI
Status: Pending
Priority: 4
Save before: N/A (not available)
Save after:
Description: During this game I built a mind worm, which promptly got taken out by Deirdre,
who I had put in to replace the Caretakers. The interlude used the Caretakers' name and
goals instead of the Gaian ones.


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[zsozso]

BugID: #0057, Unit_List_Limit
Submitter: Mouse,
Version: Both AX and AC4
Category: UI
Status: Pending
Priority: 4
Save before: N/A (not available)
Save after:
Description: In the units listing (F7) 256 is the maximum allowed and the list will start from 1 when
there are more. In my latest game I was looking to see how many formers I had and it
only listed 36, I actually had 292.


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[zsozso]

BugID: #0058, Reactor_Upgrade
Submitter: zsozso, zsolt@simbiosys.ca
Version: Both AX and AC4
Category: Movement
Status: Pending
Priority: 3
Save before: N/A (not available)
Save after:
Description: When the reactor of air units is upgraded through the
Design Workshop, they all get extra movement points within the
same turn, e.g. if upgraded from fission to fusion, they
all get 2 more movement points and become active again.
On the other hand those that has not yet moved (e.g. jets
in the air from previous turn) lose their normal movement
points for the turn (e.g. 10 for fission jet becomes 2) making
them crash and get lost.


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[zsozso]

BugID: #0059, Copter_Landing
Submitter: zsozso, zsolt@simbiosys.ca
Version: Both AX and AC4
Category: Movement
Status: Pending
Priority: 4
Save before: N/A
Save after: N/A
Description: There are some inconsistencies with the copters landing outside bases.
The unit gets 30% damage due to crash-landing when finishing a turn outside base/air-base.
Therefore, it is considered to be on the ground and not in the air now. They can also be
attacked by ground units without the SAM special ability - futher proving they are on the
ground. However, a copter with troop transport unit cannot unload its cargo when it has
landed this way. The game says "Air trasnports can unload in bases or air-bases only".
Well, the copter is not in the air at this point, so why can't it unload ? What is the
difference from being on a terraformed air base square ? Another inconsistency is, that
if the copter crash-lands on a Monolith it does not get repaired by the "Arcane technology"
like ground units would.

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