BlindMindStudios / StarRuler2-Source

4X Space Strategy game Star Ruler 2's open source distribution.
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[Ghastly] all the bug reports in the Star Ruler 2 forum are ancient and barely actionable #39

Open db48x opened 5 years ago

db48x commented 5 years ago

Expected Results: all the valiant heroes who reported bugs in the Star Ruler 2 forum (http://forums.blind-mind.com/index.php?board=30.0) naturally provided a copy of their save, a free video card, and a copy of the exact video driver they had installed at the time.

Actual Results: vague, two-sentence bug reports. sometimes with a version number. None of them seem to be marked off as fixed.

What do we do now? Suffer, I guess. Or find our own bugs by playing the game. Maybe the developers kept a spreadsheet or bug database that has some information about these bug reports that we could peek at? Perhaps we can get lucky with some of the existing bug reports?

There are some bugs that could potentially still be reproducible, such as the wandering ringworlds (http://forums.blind-mind.com/index.php?topic=6256.0), or instant game loss with a particular faction (http://forums.blind-mind.com/index.php?topic=6499.0). There's even one where a commenter found a proximate cause (http://forums.blind-mind.com/index.php?topic=6256.0), but it could easily have been fixed from that information, so I'm not hopeful.

I found these three on the first three pages of the forum. Perhaps others want to look deeper? My own purpose is to while away a few hours in a pleasant programming puzzle while I'm on the train tomorrow.

In the mean time, perhaps others would also be interested enough to try to reproduce a bug or two?

DaloLorn commented 5 years ago

It might be better to look at the Steam forums instead.

That being said, the wandering ringworld issue was never fixed, but there don't seem to be any reproduction steps. It's easier to reproduce using the Bluuhbi in Rising Stars, but that's only because they start with a Ringworld as their homeworld.

The other two don't seem to be an issue anymore.