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Hi, since I have installed the latest patch, I receive false alarm messages about ships being attacked by space creatures. When I received those messages, I immediately clicked ont the sliding image to go to the event location, and two times there wasn't any space creature attacking the ship, and the ship was not escaping from anything...

ORIGINAL: Volcano

Hi, since I have installed the latest patch, I receive false alarm messages about ships being attacked by space creatures. When I received those messages, I immediately clicked ont the sliding image to go to the event location, and two times there wasn't any space creature attacking the ship, and the ship was not escaping from anything...

I had that happen too to one of my explorer ships in a gas cloud I wanted to later mine. So I brought in a fleet to look around and moved them around the edges of the gas cloud until I found two creatures out in space moving back towards the gas cloud.

So what I think is happening is the explorer arrives at a cloud/planet that a creature views as its territory and the creature attacks thus generating the warning. But prior to that the creature had been moving off somewhere, probably to raid a system close by or something and is too far out to see with the early scanners.

Jim

Yes, I think you're right on that Jim. Not entirely a false alarm, but not entirely accurate either.

Those two alarms were about attacks from giant Kaltors which, as far as I know, spend all their life in the same planetary system/gas cloud... Also, I confirm that the concerned ships, when selected, were not indicated as "escape from" in their information window.

Anyway, that's what I've seen so far and since the first message of this topic, it happened a third time.