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[Wiles]

I am trying to terraform a planet, I clicked on the terraform button, clicked on the climate I want, and it is telling me it will take 360 days on the outliner. But this timer never ticks down. Am I missing a step? Or is the game just bugged?

[Il Palazzo]

I am trying to terraform a planet, I clicked on the terraform button, clicked on the climate I want, and it is telling me it will take 360 days on the outliner. But this timer never ticks down. Am I missing a step? Or is the game just bugged?

You sure it's 360? The quickest terraforms (without boosters) take 5 years. Some take 10, so it could be 3600 with one zero cut off by the interface. (guessing here)

[Wiles]

I just noticed it is a nanite world. I tried terraforming a non-nanite world and it works fine (3600, like you said).

The nanite world however says 360 for time but never ticks down. I'm sure I had a pop up earlier in the game that said I could terraform those worlds.

[Il Palazzo]

Ah, right. Those do take but a short time. Wasn't there something about having to kill off the nanite empire first, before you can terraform the worlds? (if that's not it, then I give up)

[Biowraith]

Terraforming seems to be broken at the moment for barren terraforming candidates - it sits at 3600 on the timer forever.  Maybe the same is true for nanite worlds.

[Radsoc]

Caravans are stuck at your home planet now too. Stopped my game for the moment. Amazing quality control.

[Culise]

Terraforming seems to be broken at the moment for barren terraforming candidates - it sits at 3600 on the timer forever.  Maybe the same is true for nanite worlds.

Oh, I thought that was just the mod or combination of mods I was playing.  That's a pity.

[Telgin]

I find it amusing that all of these bugs seem to happen in systems that shouldn't have even been touched by the DLC.  Like, why are caravan fleets getting stuck or synthetic ascension breaking your primary species?  What was even changed that could break things like that?  Or terraforming speed?

Well, I guess the performance changes could have broken it, but it again seems kind of unbelievable that these problems aren't being caught by QA, or if they are that the management team tells them to publish the game anyway.  I'd hate to work for Paradox if that's how it goes, and it sounded like that was the case after 2.2.

Unrelated, but it took me ages to figure out how to spend minor artifacts.  To my knowledge, there's absolutely no indication that they're tracked on the same screen as traditions (for some reason) under a different tab.  I actually made it 100 years into a game before I figured that out.

All of that said, some of the dig sites are actually pretty cool, and I like the rewards I've gotten from a few.

[forsaken1111]

I find it amusing that all of these bugs seem to happen in systems that shouldn't have even been touched

Yeah welcome to programming. In one of my own projects I once implemented a new style (visual only) of icon fade for a skill cooldown and it ended up breaking the ability to talk to NPCs. The links between systems aren't always obvious.

[ZeroGravitas]

I find it amusing that all of these bugs seem to happen in systems that shouldn't have even been touched by the DLC.  Like, why are caravan fleets getting stuck or synthetic ascension breaking your primary species?  What was even changed that could break things like that?  Or terraforming speed?

Well, I guess the performance changes could have broken it, but it again seems kind of unbelievable that these problems aren't being caught by QA, or if they are that the management team tells them to publish the game anyway.  I'd hate to work for Paradox if that's how it goes, and it sounded like that was the case after 2.2.

Management likely has no idea about specific bugs like that. The more likely answer is poor version control. This is Paradox' bread and butter for years now. They fix something in one version of the code, only to revert it by accident later when they release a major update that's based on a version of the code from before the fix.

This has happened so many times with EU4, CK2, etc, that I've lost count. People who have worked there have confirmed that they fundamentally don't have real software development practices in place. They just kind of do it as they go along. When they were really a niche indie developer 10 or 15 years ago, fine, whatever.

[Wiles]

The worst bug I ran into so far this patch was one where defending armies would gain strength instead of losing it when being attacked. I was rather surprised to see my stack of 4k troops wiped out by a 7k stack of defending armies that was only at 2k strength a few minutes before.

[forsaken1111]

There are a bunch of weird bugs right now I keep running into. One of the worst being zero-population planets. Planets that remain owned by an enemy even if all the pops die or are moved, but you can't invade because there are no pops.

[Dunamisdeos]

My favorite is when an enemy ship hits 1 hp but can't die.

They just sit there forever locked in battle with your fleet and will chip it down to nothing and win. Gotta kill it with console commands.

[Cruxador]

I find it amusing that all of these bugs seem to happen in systems that shouldn't have even been touched by the DLC.

The free update included a switch to 64 bit processing. Therefore, everything was potentially touched, and sometimes in weird ways.

[Dunamisdeos]

Oh yeah, mine's when defending armies become unkillable because they recover 1/4 of their max health health every few days until they suddenly stop doing that.

I've had it where I've invaded a planet and had to retreat because the defending army kept jumping up to ~250/200 health somehow. It only stopped once I bombarded the planet to 100% devastation, and I'm unsure if that's the cause or if the game coincidentally went "Oh, hang on that's not supposed to happen!"

I got mad at a bug like this once and changed the planet to toxic and back.