Need some assistance with "Bug Hunting"

posted on March 24th, 2012, 8:59 pm

Hello there,

Was play testing KA2 EAW a bit the other day and an ugly bug reared its head again. I am not sure if this is an old A2 bug, or if I have mangled something somewhere, but here goes.

If I make a new map, place a few planets and then rename them, when I play that map and view the admirals log afterwards, the battles are listed with the old (pre-renaming) names. So for example if I place down a Class M named Earth, and then change that to Ceti Alpha VI, when I play the map any battles around that planet will say "Nth Battle of Earth" not "Nth Battle of Ceti Alpha VI".

Now I have a way around it, namely just add all the names I need straight to the ODF and keep plopping a planet until I get one with the right name, but thats a bit of a bodge. Is this a bug that plagued the original unmodified Armada 2?

posted on March 24th, 2012, 9:16 pm

Pretty sure that happened back in the original A2, usually did for me.

posted on March 24th, 2012, 9:31 pm

Phew! Thanks! I'd googled it and scoured modding forums but no-one seemed to mention it. Figured I was going mad!

Another question then. Is there any way to stop derelicts and ships with no crew (i.e Space Monsters) from self destructing after a certain amount of time? My Orion Pirates work fine, but my Space Monsters all decide to spontaneously combust after a set amount of time. Again, a default A2 setting I believe.

[Dominus_Noctis]

posted on March 24th, 2012, 11:13 pm

Last edited by Dominus_Noctis on March 24th, 2012, 11:18 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Yes, as far as I know there's no way of preventing that currently unfortunately.

EDIT: fatal comma instead of period...