<t> Found it on the Internet Archive, but the mediafire link is dead by now. fierceking or someone who still has it will have to re-upload.<br/> The post from back then was a disheartening read. The fact that they didn't address the 256+ components issue at all for 7 months doesn't bode well for the...

Hmm... nope, tried a few times, always got exactly 30 empires + Ancient Guardians + 20~30 pirates.
Strange how all these issues vary wildly in form and severity for people. I guess at least this bug's not a game stopper like your entire fleet being turned into troll ships...

Ok... as I don't use the fully autogen empires function because I insist on having certain races present, I didn't notice this yet. Will try when I have a chance and report back here, but I see no reason why it wouldn't be there for everyone else.

^ You sure it's all empires and not 30 empires + 15 pirates? The mod does result in ridiculous amounts of pirates being generated for me no matter what the pirate slider is set to (except "none"), and not all of them are always easily recognizable as pirates at a glance...

[double post, sorry about that.]

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: mordachai<br/> <br/> Rewarding their willingness to go above & beyond by whining at them<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> I'm not whining at anyone. Don't preach to me like that, it was me who didn't even want to file a bug report in the first place for the very reason y...

<t> This is very interesting. I had a feeling there had to be some kind of algebraic regularity to the component changes (something like (mod 256), just a bit more complex), but I didn't really want to spend time investigating this when I could just play vanilla DW instead [:D] Some alone time for q...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: fierceking<br/> <br/> Thanx for reporting the bug and uploading the file.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> No prob. Hopefully they'll consider it important enough to do a hotfix release.<br/> <br/> In the meantime, I've started a small game with 700 stars / 6x6 sectors...

<t> I was told to submit a save game here, since the Starfall mod might have exposed a game engine bug, possibly related to the 256+ components issue.<br/> <br/> The save file is named "[MaxRebo]_DWU-v1.9.5.12_Starfall-v1.01_ShipMorphBug.dwg" on the FTP server.<br/> Distant Worlds Universe v1.9.5.12...

<t> I was kinda reluctant to open a tech support thread, this is a bug caused by a mod after all. I never had any issues with Vanilla DW.<br/> <br/> But since I can't post links, I didn't really have a choice. If fierceking wants to take a look too, the save is named [MaxRebo]_DWU-v1.9.5.12_Starfall...

<t> Registered just to inform you of this, as I can't believe no one noticed it before:<br/> Completely normal, already built ships and bases are being turned into troll ships randomly whenever certain processing is done by the game. They are NOT erroneous AI designs, and they happen to the player t...