NOTE: Dont take these harshly, I'm just pointing out things that my Lab Rats/Friends have pointed out during my testing thus far. (I selected them as they have no prior invovlement with the project. Virgin eyes always help.)
Also, if these have been mentioned before, forgive me, but it is nice to have a list of bugs in V.2
I will update this post as I uncover more. All Screenshots are actual size, they have just been cropped for bandwidth saving.
Crash #1: Fleet Management
This bug happens sporadically. It does however occur conistantly. To activate the bug. I've only had it logged on my machine (although it has happened on others). This bug occurs when someone continually groups and ungroups fleets. (I've had it occur most on turn one). I did it by (on turn one) Colonizing a planet, then, continually dragging the scouts to "New Fleet" after, 4-5 click and drags, it crashes.
I've logged some of the Error Report.
It also sent the following file (Which i could not find)
C:\DOCUME~1\CHRISM~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER48.tmp.dir00\appcompat.txt
Glitch #1: Galaxy Creation Seed Issue
This bug is most evident on smaller Galaxies. It is however persistant. Galaxy creation at the moment, is not random, I can create a galaxy (10 stars) close the program and restart it and then create another 10 star galaxy and still have the exact same planets and stars. I don't know if this is supposed to be like this, I just thought I'd point it out.
Glitch #2: Overlapping Starlanes
This (if I recall correctly) has been mentioned in another form. I did however find it during my testing thus far, and as such, decided to put it here anyway. The picture shows that there is a starlane between stars 2 and 3 that overlaps the starlane between 1 and 2. The ship is at Star 1 and is headed for Star 3 (to illustrate the path and overlapping starlane).
Nitpick #1: Stars and bounding boxes
Seen in the following image, there are two noticible (however easily fixable and most likely replaced in V.3) instances where the edge of the sprite/bounding box for the Star sprite can be seen.
Nitpick #2: Zooming
Zoom is probably a setting that should be toned down. You can zoom MUCH farther then is useful in V.2 (Seen in following image)
Nitpick #3: Font
The GUI font used makes it nearly impossible to differentiate between a capital i and a lower case l (L)
), I have posted a Bug report on the sourseforge (instant crash when right clicking anthing other then a star with the fleet managment window open). But I also have a few feature requests for the Planet side bar and UI, should feature requests go only on the SourseForge as well? It would be nice to have them discussed on the forum. Perhaps if and when managment desided to adress a feature request they start a discussion thread to get feedback on how/ware/why to implement the feature.