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Player loses control

Player loses control of all units in the middle of a game.

Saved Game file for the ColonialWarsDb with Beta Patch 3.7.1

Run saved game for 15 seconds and watch as control of units vanish. A sequential serious of screen shots has been included depicting this phenomenon.

Saved game files available on Xtreme-Gamer

Herman,
How far into the game does this happen? 

Game starts at 22:00h

Loss of control is 23:48:45

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Nope.

You are playing and in control of your units.  All of a sudden, your planes and ships turn to a red colour as if they are enemy units.  Consequently, you have control of nothing.

Take a look at the screen shots from 1-4, in that order.

Herman,
For some reason I'm having problems installing the ColonalWars DB to try out your save game.  Once I get this sorted out I can take a look at the behavior in 3.7.1-beta.  I've also been helping out with beta-testing the new patch so I can check out if the problem persists with the latest build 3.7.2.15.

I've seen similar behavior for some of the original scenarios (loss of unit control) that a rebuild of the scenario fixed.  The communication networks were hosed for some reason.  Was this scenario built for 3.7 or 3.7.1?

I'll let you know if I find out anything ...

 - Eric

Herman,
I was able to reproduce the problem and I haven't seen this specific behavior before. Using the SE I was able to recover the units during gameplay, but that certainly doesn't solve the root cause of the problem. Strange indeed! I'll pass this along.

Out of the hundreds of reports I've submitted and posted, only ONCE have I made a report that was not supported by either test file or saved game and that was only done because I felt the potential bug was of such significance that it might be better to err on the side of caution.  [;)]

I failed to mention that I tried a few solutions to get around this problem.  Initially, I suspected a flagship problem.  (i.e. my flagship had unknowingly been sunk and the commo network had failed to re-build).  I transferred the flagship to a number of different units, but the problem persisted.