Umm, nevermind. I just updated to BETA-2 from BETA-1.... we'll see how it goes. Sorry for the wasted space

Had the Up pass the Constructor-speed boost, (base speed 7pc/w) but as it turned out it was a constructor speed-limit as well, I have a fast constructor with a speed 12 pc/w 9 from engines and 3 from bonuses (+1 racial, +1 technological, +1 grav.accel.) when I loaded the game today, all my constructors had a speed of 10 pc/w regardless of engine configuration.

Bugs I noticed in Beta-2a:

- After deleting a ship design while in the "user" view, the list shows *all* designs again while the tab "user" is still selected.

- The "doom ray" icon is missing in the ship designer screen. This makes things confusing because the weapons don't seem to appear in the ship's components list.

- In the ship designers "choice lists" (weapons, defense etc), the lists are sorted sensibly when no tab is selected, e.g. by armor value. But when a tab is selected (like "missiles"), they get sorted alphabetically. This is less practical than having everything sorted by quality.

- "Range" is measured in pc (components list) as well as sct (ship data) - which one is correct?

- Also, the new autopilot lines are very hard to see on my computer (Geforce Ti4200, latest DirectX and drivers). The area-of-effect discs of starbases are still very hard to see.

Playing this latest Beta and the AI Population is having massive fluctuations on Planets. They are jumping from 2.6 Billion to 3.2 in one week with 78% Approval.

I have some small ships hanging out near their planet watching.

I sent 500 Million troops that took 3 turns to get to the enemy Planets. None of the three planets have over 2 billion pop. Four turns later 2 of their planets are over 3 Billion.

My Civilization Manager is Displaying is Displaying 28 weeks and the Planet View is showing 14 weeks on the same planet. This has happened to multiple Planets.

Edit: I am playing against one AI on normal right now, and I went to the Timeline Tab to see how I was doing. Inside I found out that Popularity and Treasury where very odd. Every Vertical change of my graph was the exact opposite of Terran Alliance. So lets say I had alot of money, it would show Terran as having very little money and vice versa.

I just noticed while playing that one of my ships is displaying the Speed wrong. It is showing speed 3 su but in the Ship Details it shows 4 x Impulse Mark III. The ship still travels 9 su however. Not sure how this bug occured, maybe because I was trying to upgrade a 3 su Construction ship. The other ships do not seem to be affected like this.

The audio is gone ! No sound, music ... nothing!

Did a little digging into the Miniturization thing, and discovered that the value of SizeMod is calculated based on the ships size after miniturization, not the base size. So a component with SizeMod of 5 gets enlarged by 2 on a nonminiturised Cargo Hull, while on a 15% miniturisation Cargo Hull (size 63) the same component gets enlarged by 3, so for instance sensors can actually end up taking a larger percentage of a hull after the discovery of miniturization. Is this a bug or per design?

Here are some of the 1.010 B2 that I have noticed.

Miniturization is not consistant between components or hulls. Wouldn't it be better to use a multiplier for the hull class. so the size, power, and cost are scalable to the hull size. (I'm thinking mod here)

I would love some pointer help so I know, how the techs effect the components.

Still losing texture maps on some ships when loading them up. to upgrade.

Having the ship editor remove the components, leads to the Capacity Modules Disapearing.

Planet tiles do NOT correctly reflect what the tiles are suppose to be.

Music volume playing at the volume set at initial load-up.

Unable to clearly see the Range circles, Paths and outer limits...(LOL>>>Compared to 1.09)

Not seeing alliances, and having friendly relations?

Keep up the awesome work with these PATCHES!! Hell I always wanted to be a beta tester.

Miniturization is not consistant between components or hulls. Wouldn't it be better to use a multiplier for the hull class. so the size, power, and cost are scalable to the hull size. (I'm thinking mod here)

Oh it's quite consistant, all components have a SizeMod value, witch is a percentage of the total hull-size the hull the component is placed on (rounded down) this number is then added to the components base size. Ie. a sensor might be Size 2 SizeMod 5, on a size 100 hull it will take up 7 spaces, and on a size 55 it will take up 4 spaces.

Another minor bug I noticed , [This happened in both builds (beta 1 and 2)] When creating fleets with multiple troop carriers arriving at the location at the same time, one of them will sometimes disappear. The first time, (from beta 1) I don't remember what I did to do this, but the second time (beta 2) I found that when two transports reached the same "fleet" rally point on the same turn along with fighters, that one of the transports was missing. It just disappeared even though I had seen both of them travel there.

Debug Message: Version v1.1 BETA-2A last updated on: Thu Mar 30 21:37:53 2006
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Beta 1.1 v2
Weird behavior with initial opponent selection: changing difficulty (challenging, tough etc) does not change opponent intelligence if the opponent is not random anymore, some issues selecting and deselecting opponents after having randomized opponents

Doublepost.