Cannot Colonize; cannot Load Colony Ships, Completely blocked

[Tyreanthil]

Latest Version, Started a Game yesterday
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Info:

Cannot Colonize; Auto, Manual, nothing works
Hi all

When game came out, no problem
Have latest game , and now, nothing works
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1- I 1st hit the colonize button near a suitable world (i have 3 in all), all with good habitability. It builds the colony ships, see below

2- Colony ships were built around my Homeworld, I now have 3 around HW, enough to colonize 3 suitable worlds in same system. Again, its my home system, no range issue.

3- Nothing happens after they are built; I put them on Manual, fully automate, they dont move, they dont load colonists, its very annoying

4- Only in a while 1 will say loading colonists, then nothing happens, they just stand there..

5- I am in orbit in my home system, over my homeworld

I right click, no option to load colonists
I have retrofit (disabled), move, or disband
I have 3 colony ships, auto generated design, colonization tech researched, My colony ships just float in orbit around my homeworld , nothing happens
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Additional Info:
My Game cannot continue if I cannot colonize. All 3 habitable planets in my home system are over +20, 2 are at +43 and +50

1 ships says it is loading colonists, i played game a while at 4X nothing happens
Other 2 col ships no option to load, do anything but what I said earlier.. argh

I am at wits end. Also, Population of Homeworld, 20 years into game is 4,070 million or over 1 billion above my starting pop of 2950 million at game start

Is this a NASTY bug ?

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I also tried to go to Policy, to fully automate, COLONIZATION, nothing changes.
WHAT am I doing wrong ?

Any help appreciated

Jean

[MaximKI]

Thanks for the report! Do you mind uploading a save where you're seeing this issue?

[Tyreanthil]

EDITED: File sent to your PM

Will there be any way to resolve this, I would like to continue my game... ?

Help ?
Jean

[Zupfe]

Please fix it quickly, the AI has the problem for me too.

[Tyreanthil]

Anyone ?

Is this a common problem ?
hello ?

JM
PS happy easter

[Tyreanthil]

I started another game as Humans

Same thing happened, colonization, loading colonists, hitting the auto button to colonize a suitable world, all borked and not working

You guys have a MAJOR problem for Humans, 2 separate games, different conditions ?

FIX your game, im very disappointed ....

Jean

[MaximKI]

Thanks for the report! Looking at your save 'Autosave 5', I'm noticing that you have 2 planets that have additional planets on top of them - Iressai and Ocemboo + Akara Prime and Tirfoy. This is is a very odd situation that's not supposed to happen when you generate a new galaxy. Do you happen to be playing with any mods? Did you play around with the Game Editor at all to add new planets? I also noticed you posted another save on Discord for a different game where you're running into similar issues.

It's possible that because of this odd planet setup, your colony ships are unable to load colonists from your homeworld. Have you tried doing a clean reinstall of your game? have you tried starting a game on the last official update v1.2.0.5? Have you tried the latest beta, v1.2.1.8? Do you notice any difference between these versions?

@Zupfe - do you mind uploading a save where you're seeing this issue as well?

[Tyreanthil]

ok

1- No not any Mods

2- Please notice 1st save above has no planets on top of each other, and issue started with it. That was my original Report, tried a new game, with same race/slightly different options, and ended up with this disaster.

3- Light use of editor, just to add a couple resources, no planets added. I understand 2nd save last night had close planets (?), but 1st save reported did not and it started with that....

4- I did a Steam verify files, is that enough ? dont really wish to reinstall but I can ..

5- I dont usually play with beta's an do not know how to use them, i only used latest prod versions of my games..

6- Could it be race related, ie I can start a new game that is not humans, and see if it happens again. I really wish to 1-play the game 2- help you figure this out. so if you have any troubleshooting tools i can use in background while playing I can help...

Please advise
Jean

[MaximKI]

Reason we ask to do a clean reinstall is to make sure to get rid of any possible installation issues for some reason.

So far, we haven't seen other reports like this and are unable to reproduce on our side. It may be a system-specific issue, though we will take a look at this in a bit more depth to confirm.

Do you have anti-virus software at all? Please make sure that you check that it's not interfering with the game's installation.

To access the public beta you can see instructions in this post here: https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/view ... 1&t=401710

[Ax]

Planets on top of each other happens when you use the editor to make new planets, then forget the option remains active between sessions and then click to select another planet.

[elliotg]

Hi Tyreanthil

Your savegames show that you have edited your home system. But the way you have added planets has caused problems.

As Max pointed out, one of your savegames shows overlapping planets, which prevents your ships from moving freely.

The other save shows planets added too close to other planets (Emnatie). In this case it should be a moon, not a planet. When planets/locations are too close together your ships and bases get confused about which location they are in, leading to all sorts of problems.

So when using the editor make sure that planets are distant from each other. Otherwise use moons to add items at the same location.

Thanks
Elliot

[Tyreanthil]

thx guys

ill try to do better and try it out again

Take care
JM

PS shouls be a warning in editor if stuff is too close or the Planet/Moon thingie

Regards