Official SMACX v2 bug list. READ ONLY PLEASE!

[zsozso]

BugID: #0135, TECHSTEAL
Submitter: Bblue, gsshell@aol.com
Version: Alien Crossfire
Category: Rules
Status: Demonstrated
Priority: 4
Save before: http://CR190515-A.hnsn1.on.wave.home...C/ABL0135b.zip
Save after: N/A
Description: The TECHSTEAL ability does not work. (This is the 'capture a base; steal a
tech' ability of the Cyborgs)
Note about the save: to complete the bug, all you
need to do is walk a unit into Data DeCentral, the Angels have 4 techs the
Cyborgs don't and you don't get a 'freebe' when you take the city.

Jeffrey Morris, FIRAXIS: We've found out what was going on with this. It turns out that the new alphax.txt
was the exact same size as the alphaxt.txt file on the CD, and thus didn't make it into the
patch (file compare 'okayed' it). A change however was made. If you open up alphax.txt and
go to the #BONUSNAMES section, you'll see TECHSTEAL is on a line with a total of 9
elements (separated by a comma). To fix the problem, put TECHSTEAL on a line by itself,
ending the line it WAS on with a comma. Voila, TECHSTEAL now works.

Note by zsozso: Priority lowered to 4 due to the known work-around.

[This message has been edited by zsozso (edited January 11, 2000).]

[zsozso]

BugID: #0136, Crash_after_rules_select
Submitter: BustaMike, wordtoyourmother@hotmail.com
Version: Alien Crossfire
Category: Crash
Status: Pending
Priority: 1
Save before: N/A (not available)
Save after:
Description: The game crashes after the rules screen passes in
a regular start game. Quick start avoids this problem, but who wants to play the same game
over and over. If I reinstall SMACX the problem is temporarily fixed, but it comes back.

[zsozso]

BugID: #0137, Elevation_editing
Submitter: BustaMike, wordtoyourmother@hotmail.com
Version: Both AX and AC4
Category: Scenario Editor
Status: Pending
Priority: 3
Save before: N/A (not available)
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Description: This apppears to be specific to my SMAC game, but every computer I have installed it on
has the same problem (maybe my CD?). The elevation editor is apparently broken. I cannot
raise or lower terrain; however, I can make flat sea level land squares and ocean shelf
squares. If I click on a preexisting land square to try and raise the terrain nothing happens.
Same goes for a sea square if I try and lower the terrain to an ocean or trench square. If I
lower terrain on any land square regardless of elevation it turns into an ocean shelf square. If
I raise an ocean square regardless of depth it turns into a sea level land square. This problem
basically makes it impossible for me to create my own maps unless I want every square to
look the same.

[zsozso]

BugID: #0138, Brood_Pit
Submitter: Fistleaf, eng71043@nus.edu.sg
Version: Alien Crossfire
Category: Rules
Status: Pending
Priority: 3
Save before: N/A
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Description: Brood Pit does not give +1 Life Cycle. Instead, units get +1 Life Cycle only
when present inside city.(Similar to Children's Creche effect)

[zsozso]

BugID: #0139, 1x1_Island_Start
Submitter: Bblue, gsshell@aol.com
Version: Both AX and AC4
Category: Rules
Status: Demonstrated
Priority: 3
Save before: N/A
Save after: http://CR190515-A.hnsn1.on.wave.home...C/ABL0139a.zip
Description: Both Miriam and Lal started on 1x1 island in this game.

[This message has been edited by zsozso (edited January 11, 2000).]

[zsozso]

BugID: #0140, Elevation_Change_Display
Submitter: Kinjiru, jonathon_wood@rocketmail.com
Version: Both AX and AC4
Category: UI
Status: Confirmed
Priority: 4
Save before: N/A
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Description: I was lowering some terrain up by the poles in order to build a sea base. The terrain to the
west was a large ridge running roughly to the south-southeast. When I lowered to sea level,
I was left with some bit of 'black' in the sqaures to the immediate northwest of my new base.
It wasn't the whole square though. It looks like the game still thinks the terrain is hilly, even
though it is now flat.

zsozso: I have seen the same effect when the sea was rising due to pollution.

[zsozso]

BugID: #0141, Bomber_Air_Defense
Submitter: Vi Vicdi, gderrick@dashlink.com
Version: Both AX and AC4
Category: Combat
Status: Confirmed
Priority: 3
Save before:
Save after: N/A
Description: Air-to-air combat rules are inconsistent for a fighter attacking a bomber.
In a direct attack against a bomber, whether on the ground or in the air, the fighter gets a
100% air-to-air bonus and the bomber defends with its armor.
In an air defense scramble the fighter does NOT get its 100% air-to-air advantage and the
bomber defends with its weapon.

[zsozso]

BugID: #0142, Amphibious_Helper
Submitter: Vi Vicdi, gderrick@dashlink.com
Version: Both AX and AC4
Category: Combat
Status: Pending
Priority: 3
Save before:
Save after: N/A
Description: If you have a unit on land adjacent to a sea base units can move out of the sea base without
transport or amphibious ability.

[This message has been edited by zsozso (edited January 12, 2000).]

[zsozso]

BugID: #0143, Punishment_Sphere_F2_Calculation
Submitter: korn469, korn469@mindless.com
Version: Both AX and AC4
Category: UI
Status: Demonstrated
Priority: 4
Save before: N/A
Save after: http://CR190515-A.hnsn1.on.wave.home...AC/ABL0143.zip
Description: when a punishment sphere is present in a base the F2 screen displays the
wrong time until a new tech is discovered and the wrong amount of tech points per
turn...the F2 screen does not take into account that a punishment sphere halves the techs
per turn so the techs per turn are off by as much as double (depending on how many
bases have punishment spheres) so the time displayed until a new tech is discovered is
really as much as double what it should really be...however despite the display the techs
accumulated are correct and take into account the punishment sphere, and the when the
tech is actually discover is correct too

[zsozso]

BugID: #0144, Adaptive_Doctrine
Submitter: Gnome, jareth@gate.net
Version: Alien Crossfire
Category: Unit Design
Status: Demonstrated
Priority: 3
Save before: http://CR190515-A.hnsn1.on.wave.home...C/ABL0144b.zip
Save after: N/A
Description: In one of my games, I learned Adaptive Doctrine, yet it would not
allow me to add a Marine Detatchment to my boats.

Saved game: marine.sav. Go into the unit workshop, and try to add
Marine Detatchment to unit 6: 3-res coastal. The option does not appear
in the list. (Checking Laboratory status will confirm that Adaptive
Doctrine is known.)

[zsozso]

BugID: #0145, Pact_production
Submitter: Gnome, jareth@gate.net
Version: Both AX and AC4
Category: UI
Status: Demonstrated
Priority: 4
Save before: N/A
Save after: http://CR190515-A.hnsn1.on.wave.home...C/ABL0145a.zip
Description: When you have a Pact with someone, you can tell what they are
producing only by clicking on the individual cities. You can tell how
much energy reserves they have only by checking their faction profile.
As long as this information is available to you, why not show it under
the city name, and on the negotiation screen, as though you had
infiltrator information?

Saved game: Click on "UN Headquarters" to see what they are
producing there. Click on the Peacekeeper's faction profile to see
their energy reserves. Speak to Brother Lal, the energy count is not
available while negotiating.

[zsozso]

BugID: #0146, New_Tech_Window
Submitter: Gnome, jareth@gate.net
Version: Both AX and AC4
Category: UI
Status: Demonstrated
Priority: 4
Save before: http://CR190515-A.hnsn1.on.wave.home...C/ABL0146b.zip
Save after: N/A
Description: When you gain a technology advance, the quote and the description
rearrange themselves as you scroll downwards (I have noticed this in
800x600 and 1024x768). This makes reading long quotes or descriptions
difficult.

Saved game: End the turn. You will learn the technology
"Centauri Ecology". If you scroll down in the quote, some of the words
from the first line are moved to the second line, etc.

[zsozso]

BugID: #0147, SE_News
Submitter: Gnome, jareth@gate.net
Version: Both AX and AC4
Category: UI
Status: Request
Priority: 5
Save before: N/A
Save after: N/A
Description: It would be nice if the news window contained
announcements of factions who change their social engineering choices
(at least those you have infiltration or alliance with).

[zsozso]

BugID: #0148, Bunker_Terraform_Preference
Submitter: Gnome, jareth@gate.net
Version: Both AX and AC4
Category: UI
Status: Request
Priority: 5
Save before: N/A
Save after: N/A
Description: It would be useful to have an automation preference for
"Automated terraformers can build bunkers" so that you could turn it
off.

[zsozso]

BugID: #0149, PBEM_save_and_exit
Submitter: Paul, paulvandenbelt@planet.nl
Version: Alpha Centauri v4
Category: UI
Status: Confirmed
Priority: 4
Save before: N/A
Save after: N/A
Description: at the end of a pbem turn when I choose save and exit the game will lock
after it has saved. The only thing I can do to get out of it is ctrl-alt-del.

Luckily the saved game still works, but it's still annoying. This happens every time in
all my pbem games.

warpage: I get the same thing, but only with a less-than-full install and the CD not present.
With a full install or the CD around, I can exit PBEM/hotseat games and not have to
CTRL-ALT-DEL my way back to the desktop.

zsozso: I can also confirm the behaviour as warpage described it.