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[Lord of the Isles]

Campaign map bug - stuck fleet. Summary: power with which I am at peace has a fleet stuck at the entrance of a port of mine, blocking any ships being built in that port, preventing my fleets at sea entering the port and (I think) blockading trade from that port.

Playing: Britain
Province: North-West India, port is Sarat I think
Blocking fleet: Maratha Confederacy

I think the stuck fleet was blockading the port beacuse it was at war with the Mughal Empire (not sure about that). I captured the territory from Mughal Empire. The friendly fleet is facing into the port (bow first), and the animation fires a gun on alternate sides at intervals. My own fleet won't move into the port. I built an Indiaman in the port, hoping that that would unstick things but after two turns the Indiaman doesn't appear - under the Recruitment tab for the port it appears with a green zero '0' in its card for the build time.

My trade screen shows no goods coming from India (this is my only port in India) and warns me that this trade is being blockaded. The stuck fleet animation has a normal flag (not the flashing pirate one) but I think it is causing the trade block - the only countries I am at war with are Pirates, Barbary pirates and Hurons, and none of them have any fleets pirating me. I've been round the world and the only flashing pirate flags are on fleets that I'm at peace with.

In M2TW, I would have used a console cheat to move the offending fleet - but unless someone wants to tell me otherwise, I believe we don't have that option available anymore?

[pevergreen]

Console commands are out.

I would say that the fleet is pirating the trade route. Check the flag of the ships, does it flash to the pirate flag? If so, they are raiding the trade route. Even so, it shouldnt stop your production...

[Barkhorn1x]

Plug bayonets go on - but you cannot get them off. So units cannot fire once they are on.

That just makes no tactical or realistic sense so it must be a bug.

[pevergreen]

Plug bayonets go on - but you cannot get them off. So units cannot fire once they are on.

That just makes no tactical or realistic sense so it must be a bug.

You shove basically a sword down a tube. It 'aint coming out.

intended feature, not a bug.

[Monsieur Alphonse]

@pevergreen
The agent select thing is a bug. It doesn't happen always but sometimes when I select the agent tab and move him my garrisons leaves town.

Other bugs:
- French standard line infantry say that they are colonial infantry or something like that.
- French second rate has lesser fire power then a third rate. 166 in stead of 231.
- update from steamclient caused my game to crash after winning a battle. Probably saving auto save and updating don't go well together.
- Scrolling up on the campaign map gives me a blue line at the top of the map.
- scrolling stutters / lags on the campaign map.
- I don't know if it is a bug, but if a general dies, his bodyguard stays alive. But you can't appoint a new general to it. Recruiting a general gives you a new bodyguard with a general and the old one is still there.

[Relic]

Gah! lots more:

-when performing a rematch in a 1 ship sea battle with a few friends; all our ships had the damage on the hull displayed from the last match; although our stats were full.
-sometimes clicking on a ship; you end up with two empty navy; navl recuitment tabs.
-after my allied general died in an online 2v2 land battle; it said "The noble admiral died honorably on his ship" or something along those lines.

I also suffer from the agent/army move bug.

edit: 1 turn my agent could cross a land-bridge into enemy territory; the next they couldn't.

[Wausser]

@pevergreen
The agent select thing is a bug. It doesn't happen always but sometimes when I select the agent tab and move him my garrisons leaves town.


- French standard line infantry say that they are colonial infantry or something like that.

Had the agent thing too and not only the French line inf says they're colonial, the Dutch version says "Koloniale Infanterie"

[Freakk]

Playing as sweden in the grand campaign. Every time a revolution begins and I choose to fight as the rebels, If i end the turn I get a CTD no matter what I do.

[Murmandamus]

@pevergreen
The agent select thing is a bug. It doesn't happen always but sometimes when I select the agent tab and move him my garrisons leaves town.

I found a work around for this problem, and for the problem where agents get stuck in towns etc (which is probably the same bug, but when no garrison is present, nothing happens).

Instead of selecting the agent and right clicking on the map to move it, click and drag the agent icon from the unit panel onto the map.

Just noticed Phog_of_War already posted this. Oops :)

[peacemaker]

-In the campaign map, when I click on gentlemen, there's a pause that lasts for a few seconds. Not a giant problem but annoying nonetheless
-Many battles have enemy units just standing around getting shot to pieces by artillery while there is a large broken building 2 feet away to go behind
-Is this a bug? Pirates and the like still move in perfect, orderly fashions even better than my line infantry....
-All the videos in the campaign such as dueling have horrible framerate, and the sound is kinda choppy.

[Barkhorn1x]

You shove basically a sword down a tube. It 'aint coming out.

intended feature, not a bug.

Debatable. And I guess we can live with it.

More bugs = had two CTDs post battle when filling up one unit from a more understrength one.***

***This was in RtI - I will not do this in the Grand Campaign as it is ahistorical.

[A Very Super Market]

Nope, not debatable at all.

It is not a bug, and I believe it says in the information sheet that it is a side-effect of plug bayonets.

[Barkhorn1x]

Nope, not debatable at all.

It is not a bug, and I believe it says in the information sheet that it is a side-effect of plug bayonets.

Did some research - they often jammed in the barrel. I stand corrected.

[simshaun]

More bugs = had two CTDs post battle when filling up one unit from a more understrength one.***

I'm having this same bug playing the Grand Campaign as Great Britain.
I've reproduced it across two different machines without changing settings, so I'm assuming its a bug in the game.

1. Start a new campaign.
2. Move the army from the regional capital to the southern-most docks.
3. Attempt to Embark the army into the ships, a "select units" screen should come up.
4. Try to highlight all of the army and click the <> button in the middle.

Both of my PC's CTD when I press the <> button.

[MikeV]

1. Start a new campaign.
2. Move the army from the regional capital to the southern-most docks.
3. Attempt to Embark the army into the ships, a "select units" screen should come up.
4. Try to highlight all of the army and click the <> button in the middle.

Both of my PC's CTD when I press the <> button.

That whole "Unit Transfer" widget is the lousiest part of the UI design. It's clumsy, counter-intuitive, and home to yet another bug nest.

(I hate bugs, even the software kind.)

[DJoe]

Game Crashes -

When trying to load a saved game, the game crashes (not responding) and goes to windows.
When trying to continue campagin, game crashes (not responding) and goes to windows.

I un-installed, and now re-installing to see if it fixes it.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Lord of the Isles]

Campaign map bug - stuck fleet. Summary: power with which I am at peace has a fleet stuck at the entrance of a port of mine, blocking any ships being built in that port, preventing my fleets at sea entering the port and (I think) blockading trade from that port.

Playing: Britain
Province: North-West India, port is Sarat I think
Blocking fleet: Maratha Confederacy

I think the stuck fleet was blockading the port beacuse it was at war with the Mughal Empire (not sure about that). I captured the territory from Mughal Empire. The friendly fleet is facing into the port (bow first), and the animation fires a gun on alternate sides at intervals. My own fleet won't move into the port. I built an Indiaman in the port, hoping that that would unstick things but after two turns the Indiaman doesn't appear - under the Recruitment tab for the port it appears with a green zero '0' in its card for the build time.

My trade screen shows no goods coming from India (this is my only port in India) and warns me that this trade is being blockaded. The stuck fleet animation has a normal flag (not the flashing pirate one) but I think it is causing the trade block - the only countries I am at war with are Pirates, Barbary pirates and Hurons, and none of them have any fleets pirating me. I've been round the world and the only flashing pirate flags are on fleets that I'm at peace with.

The province is Gujarat and the port is Surat.


Ok, my next campaign has reached 1711, I've just arrived in India and the same bug as above has occured again (note though I did have an earlier campaign where this port was ok, so it isn't every game). Also did some more experimenting.

Note btw, to answer pevergreen, that the Maratha fleet stuck in the port doesn't have a flashing pirate flag on it: clearly some parts of the game's data tables know that Maratha & me (Britain) are at peace but other parts think there is still a blockade going on (presumably because the change of ownership of the province didn't cause the Maratha fleet to 'unblockade').

I decided to attack the Maratha fleet. I got the usual dialogue box coming up, I chose to declare war, and defeated the fleet (1 brig and 4 sloops IIRC). Now when I go back to my Trade screen, there is no longer a ship-with-red-cross next to India and a tooltip saying trade is being blockaded, but I am importing some Tea from India to my home and exporting it out to a few trade partners. That seems like further evidence of this phantom-blockade-with-peaceful-power bug.

I can't be arsed starting yet another British campaign from scratch - I'll just live with the war with Maratha I guess. But they were a good trading partner as well as a useful helper against the Mughals. Sigh.