This is gathered during two multi games. First was 2 people vs 2 Hard AI (1 Star map). Second was 4 people vs 4 Hard AI (3 stars).
Issues:
-Starbases are not upgradeable. You can buy the upgrades, but they never build.
-Apparently, after buying these upgrades, and then selling them back, the game’s money system bugs. You can buy almost anything and run extreme negative numbers in credits or resources. You cannot purchase planet upgrades or research unless you have the money. So you can buy things (ships, etc), but not upgrade/research if you have insufficient funds.
-You can buy anything once this starts and it could potentially charge you 2-4x as much (sometimes all resources, sometimes it picks one to screw with). You can then refund these purchases and receive extra income over what you spent. We were doing (buy/sell) really fast and we turned a profit most of the time.
-Again, once this all starts, you can transfer credits to another person and in-turn receive even more credits. This does not work for resources.
Both games hosted on my computer.
q6600, 8GB DDR2, 8800 GTS 512, 16MB/s Cable, Vista x64
If you have the replay i'd post it.
I'll look. Something else I forgot, in the 4v4 it ended when we all minidumped simultaneously. I even heard their minidumps over ventrillo.
http://savefile.com/projects/808723040
This project should contain 2 files. Both are the replay of our 2v2 game (we reloaded at about 2 hours to see if that would fix the issue, hence 2 files - PS, it didn't). Unfortunately the 4v4 game didn't save (maybe the minidump had something to do with it disappearing?)
You will need Entrench v90 to view them, or it will just minidump. We still had the same problems with v91, I just don't have the file.
Just did a massive 2v2 (2 human, 2 Insane AI, 5 stars). Turning OFF Alloy prevented the money and upgrade bugs from showing up. The game still ended after 4.5 hours with a Minidump (we would have won). And there were so many mines MY system came to a crawl - I don't think many people are going to be able to host this game. One AI had over 400 in his gravity well... Not to mention the million my Vasari lay.
I was the guy playing the game with Shoal. For the sake of completeness, I should mention that I turned off Alloy on my machine as well.
Also, after he minidumped, I did not. Although, when I quit the game and attempted to exit, that's when I got a minidump.
I hate the money bug... In the end it doesn't even matter game will end in a minidump anyway.
Grtz,Flipkik
We Ran into all of these bugs tonight trying to play
We had 5 people vs 3 Unfair AIs and had all kinds of problems with money and starbase upgrades. Negative money for most of the game which really screwed stuff up.
I was in the game with Hardtarget24. We eventually called it quits because there were long sections where nothing could be done because of the debt issues.
Have you tried turing Alloy OFF in the Host Setup option?
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