Problem with new patch 1.66

A few questions to help understand your problem:

Do ALL AI empires behave like this? Are the races that don't work Custom Shipsets? Are your Stock races (those that came with the game) also acting this way? Are you using a Mod? Balance Mod, Unnamed? etc.

When I patched last time around (to 1.58) I also had similar problems to you, and thought the patch was borked. But then when I noticed it was ONLY custom shipsets that were doing this I realised it was them that were incompatible with the new patch. Sounds very similar to the problems you describe.

If thats the case you have two choices:

a) Wait till the authors of the shipsets update the custom races AI settings to be compatible with new patch (which is up to them if they wish to do it or not).
b) You mod your custom shipsets to use AI files that do work (i.e. stock).

If it is Stock races that are misbehaving then ignore the above post.

I'm going to be testing 1.66 when I get home from work, so i'll report back if I face similar issues.

Steam patched mine this morning and 2 things occurred while playing that didn't seem right. I'm 2 weeks new to the game, so it may just be my inexperience.

1. I created a fleet of 11 Frigates which I sent to a sector I recently discovered with an agressive empire. My fleet moved into the same space as one of their three planets where two of their cruisers were. A battle took place and their cruisers were lost. No damage to the planet. I ended my turn and my fleet now had 0 movement points and they had built another cruiser. I ended the turn again... same thing, so I disbanded my fleet and all 11 ships had their movement points again. While in the fleet I was unable to give it any orders. I was able to use single ships to do further attacks. If I created a new fleet and re-added the same ships, that fleet had 0 movement points.

2. I finished off the other 2 planets, the 3 cruisers of theirs guarding a warp during the whole thing never moved. But that's not the issue, I looked down at the galaxy map and noticed that I now had discovered a sector very far off the beaten path... no where near anything I had visited. In that sector was a ship that I had control of that had more movement points than any of my ships and a different ship design than either myself or the empire I had just attacked.

3 previous things in 1.63 that I noticed(which do not appear to be addressed in 1.66)

1. If I setup a game, and give my empire advanced Rock Colonizing(my empire preferred planet being Rock/Oxygen) of level 4, and gas and ice of level 4(the numbers I used at the time), that when I played the game, I would have level 1 rock, level 4 ice and gas. I figured it was a quirk and I just didn't spend any points in future games on it.

2. My native screen resolution is 1280x720, but I must change the resolution to 1024x768 before playing the game, even if I set the game to play at 1280x1024(or 1024x768 even). If I don't start the game at 1024x768 the intro logo screens will be my primary window border color(beige) and will fade in and out to black and when both logo's are done cycling, I will end up with a monotone colored screen with music playing. I can sometimes ALT-TAB out and then Close the window, but sometimes I have to use the "Windows" key because ALT-TAB won't work.

3. I must always reboot the computer after playing SEV. If I don't then my computer is very unpredictable. I have had on occasion a copy of SEV still loaded in memory even after I quit the game which causes the pc to be quite slow. I have also had icons on the start bar after the game has been quit that constantly blink.

These are not big issues for me, but I thought I would mention them as long as I was mentioning the 1.66 issues.

Have fun!

Did you pick a minister style?

Space Empires Depot | SE:V Balance Mod

That could very well be the reason. Without a minister style, the game has no idea which AI files to use for the ministers... although one might suggest it should just default to the default scripts if nothing is specified.

Space Empires Depot | SE:V Balance Mod

There's a typo in Script_AI_GlobalSettings. About a third of the way through where the ship index is populated, the Gas Planet Colonizer is pointed at the wrong planets.

if (lst_AI_Planets_To_Colonize_Num_Types.count() > 0) then
if (lst_AI_Planets_To_Colonize_Num_Types.Get(2) = 0) then

should read:

if (lst_AI_Planets_To_Colonize_Num_Types.count() > 0) then
if (lst_AI_Planets_To_Colonize_Num_Types.Get(3) = 0) then

Copy and paste does that to me all the time.
Directive 721: Cover your own a$$ first. Solo

Doesn't that affect the main script for every AI empire?

[edit] I guess I shouldn't worry about it since BM1.12 will have its own AI overriding that.

Kwok said tonight is the deadline... and I am waiting for it before I finish assembling my new custom setup. Combining mods is getting harder and harder, as the details pile up... so, I don't want to do it twice.

I'm running the pre-release bug check now.

Space Empires Depot | SE:V Balance Mod

Script_Ai_GlobalConstants_VehicleSizes is missing the "Small Crystalline Fighter". It took me forever to figure this one out while re-compiling my mega-evil empire. Finally got a clue when NONE of the original empires would compile, either. Hope this saves someone a big headache.

Unole!
Directive 721: Cover your own a$$ first. Solo

In SEV simulated combat (space), when add units and press "place units"
it will show the combat grid but no units will appear.

Why?

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Evilhamburger's Uber-Comp OneAlpha&Beta | Multiplayer rounds with a twist
http://www.spaceempires5.com/en-US/node/4887

I don't get it. What's up with releasing patches that introduce more problems than they fix?

Obviously it wasnt intended to create more problems than it fixed. If I could guess it was an attempt to get the game stopping bug fix out quickly and before christmas (game hanging at 30% - intelligence problem).

-Unnamed

Unnamed Mod

Another one!
any one got bug spray to kill this one?

When capturing a planet, pop becomes mine, yes?
my flag appears next to their ppop so its MINE...
yet in "our empire report" it doesnt show their race as beong mine...

why?

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Evilhamburger's Uber-Comp OneAlpha&Beta | Multiplayer rounds with a twist
http://www.spaceempires5.com/en-US/node/4887

correction with my post 4 up... It doesnt show SOME units for placement...

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Evilhamburger's Uber-Comp OneAlpha&Beta | Multiplayer rounds with a twist
http://www.spaceempires5.com/en-US/node/4887

It's a matter of whether they've been assimilated into your empire. AFTER assimilation they'll show up, but if you've just captured them, then no.