All refer to the 2/7/04 patch, although all these were observed in the 11/2003 patch also.
1a) Whenever I load from a saved game, I almost always lose 1-3 merchants competed out of COTs about 30-35 days later. (This is for powers participating in 6-10 COTs.) This happens regardless of what time of year the game was saved (i.e., not the same effect as the tendency to lose merchants in early February, presumably because people get money January 1).
Based on >100 trials, I estimate that this rate of loss is 10-30 times higher than for a month that does not immediately follow a save game load.
1b) When I reload from a saved game, my colonization success percentages are usually (always?) 5% higher than when I saved it. (Maximum is still 95%.)
1c) Not sure if a bug. Maybe just something I would like explained: If I go into a saved game and change the success of an ongoing colonization attempt from "no" to "yes" or vice versa, it odes not actually change the outcome.
2) Sometimes my fleets disappear from the map. This only happens when in port, usually (always?) when in a port controlled by me but owned by someone else (but I don;t think it always happens when I use such ports). The fleet(s) do not disappear from the ledger. If I know where it/they are, I can reactivate it/them be clicking on the port, in which case I get the green selection ring but still no fleet sprite. The sprite reappears when I move to sea. I have never noticed a "vanished" fleet ever reappear spontaneously.
Chaim Kaufmann
1a) Whenever I load from a saved game, I almost always lose 1-3 merchants competed out of COTs about 30-35 days later. (This is for powers participating in 6-10 COTs.) This happens regardless of what time of year the game was saved (i.e., not the same effect as the tendency to lose merchants in early February, presumably because people get money January 1).
Based on >100 trials, I estimate that this rate of loss is 10-30 times higher than for a month that does not immediately follow a save game load.
1b) When I reload from a saved game, my colonization success percentages are usually (always?) 5% higher than when I saved it. (Maximum is still 95%.)
1c) Not sure if a bug. Maybe just something I would like explained: If I go into a saved game and change the success of an ongoing colonization attempt from "no" to "yes" or vice versa, it odes not actually change the outcome.
2) Sometimes my fleets disappear from the map. This only happens when in port, usually (always?) when in a port controlled by me but owned by someone else (but I don;t think it always happens when I use such ports). The fleet(s) do not disappear from the ledger. If I know where it/they are, I can reactivate it/them be clicking on the port, in which case I get the green selection ring but still no fleet sprite. The sprite reappears when I move to sea. I have never noticed a "vanished" fleet ever reappear spontaneously.
Chaim Kaufmann
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