I just joined the beta so if I'm doing something wrong tell me

A few bugs and critiques:
I get no sound whatsoever while playing the game. I've turned the volume up to full and only makes my speakers buzz threateningly at me.

Whenever I send a ship somewhere after it finishes it's move for the turn it turns around and faces the galactic east (lower right of the minimap). It faces correctly when it moves, until it stops again.

The game crashes whenever I try to resume after using the windows key or alt-tab. ( I know this was already mentioned just thought I'd mention it)

Latest batch of notes:

1) I sometimes get one or more popups telling me that the destination is out of range "it isn't" and then the ship moves anyway after I've researched all the life support techs. I don't think the ships in question were using any of the higher levels of life support, as I think one of them was my original survey ship.

2) If you click on a stack of two unfleeted ships, then right click to move the selected ship, the selected ship moves and stays selected. HOWEVER, the status window, including such things as the destroy button, refer to the ship that didn't move. This isn't very intuitive, was it intentional?

3) Would it be possible to have the military govenor display the number of colonies currently working on each design? Would it be possible to have any designs that aren't currently being built be left out of the left side list? Bonus points for both Oops, suggestion/request, not a bug, nevermind, will post elsewhere.

4) Are Singularity Drivers and Atlas slings positioned just a little bit early in the tech tree? At a time when I can only get 3 beam and 3 missile attack on a starbase, I can get 15 gun attack.

Oops, forgot one.

5) survey ship constantly dropping out of auto-survey because there are no more anomolies. Except, of course, for the fact that there are more, and in one case, it insisted that there were no more even though there were two more within the sensor range of the survey ship itself, so they had a first hand view that the anomolies were in fact still there.

I got the game recently, have been playing it for a little while, getting used to it, etc..
So far my games have been played all as Terrans, usually a medium-sized map with 4-5 opponents.

A few things wonky:

1) Renaming my leader name and planet name in the race setup screen doesn't work - reverts back to default at start.
2) UP Events - sometimes the event title goes off and ends with "..." which is minor but niggling.
3) Occasionally, resources show through the fog of war. Not on the minimap, just the main... really weird.

*4) I usually use the number pad to move my ships, a habit picked up from the various civs. This can cause some weirdness... for example, if the map's slightly off kilter in it's rotation angle, the "6" key can be east, southeast, or south (or right, down-right, and down depending on how you look at the map). Additionally, sometimes when I move my ship east, the map zooms in, but it doesn't actually zoom in - it seems to change the zoom-out distance to get to the strategic map. This can be solved by pressing the 4 key, which zooms it back out a bit. Am I just doing something really weird?
Lastly with the number pad, sometimes the movement command's not recognized at all and the ship stays there. Usually solved by just doing an autopilot move, but weird.

5) You can rename alien worlds, even if they're colonized? I do like renaming Altaria "Planet o' the Poopheads," but I kinda feel like they'd take offense.
6) Occasionally in the shipyard, I'll select a part, and the image (not the 3d, the actual picture) hovers on the side of the screen where no image should be... Goes away after placement tho.
7) When colonizing a planet, clicking cancel essentially has no effect; the planet's colonized, my colonists defreeze, I cry etc etc
8) I made a custom sensor drone with a range of 13 or 14. The accursed Drengin destroyed it, but until I exited the game, I was still able to see within the sensor range.

Other than that, it's working out well and is quite entertaining Good Job so far.

One suggestion tho:
It'd be nice to just have a little number indicator next to the treasury of how much is coming in each turn, just a little +/- and a number or whatever. I like the color scheme, but it's a little weird... Like those weather boxes that connect to the Internet and tell you what the weather's going to be by changing color.

Travic:

the audio is available as a separate download at stardock central.

to fix the alt-tab bug, find the gcconfig.exe file and make sure fullscreen is unchecked.

the ships pointing the wrong direction happend for me in beta 4b, in beta 4c it only happens for me when loading a saved game.

I played my first game with minor races on and interesting thing happened. Almost from the very begining of the game ships of one of the minor races start crossing my galactic space paying not much attention neither to perfectly habitable planets (PQ =11, 13) nor to the range limitations. They would jump out of the fog of war and enter 'my' space on one end and, undistrubed by habitable planets they would pass by, get lost in the fog of war on the other end. Bug or, maybe, Great Exodus scenario?

Thanks for the help axhead.

Another bug:
I was trying to cross the galaxy to meet the Torians, but no matter how many life support modules I install ships cannot travel more than halfway down the map. (the Torians and I are on opposite sides of the map. Galaxy size=huge or large I can't remember which.

I tried different ship classes and upgraded to ultra life support, but nothing has any effect.

I was playing a game where I went research crazy (most of them are that way, actually), and I found that if I put too much range on a ship, its range border gets very blocky, to the point of being square in extreme cases.

That sounds like what happened to me. My ships range limit is a straight line across the middle of the map.

The Yor had colonized Mars, and the planet just culture flipped to me. When I look at the planet window I see that it's working on building a starport, but no ship is shown being built (makes sense, eh? No starport, no ship). But the Planetary Details tab of the Civilization Manager show it both building a starport AND a constructor (with 17 weeks left to completion). I have screen shots in case anyone (BoogieMac?) wants one.

Typo correction, after researching Interstellar Governments, got a trade request from Drengin.

" [Empire Shortname] has always been better warriors than scientists.... "

The Yor have built a starbase right next to one of my resource starbases, ignoring the rule about starbase placement. As I recall there was a similar bug in GC1. I have a saved game to show it, if you want it.

Ok a found a ton of bugs. Here goes:


1. Some of my older ships (scout, survey ship) have changed without my help. For example, my scout has become a large-hulled ship with random extras components on it, and my survey ship has become a blank medium ship.

2. Planets of mine that have been conquered by an enemy empire still provides vision of the surrounding area.

3. Clicking "Report" in the Foreign relations window (or wherever) causes the game to crash. (Date: Jun 15, 2244; Empires remaining: Humans (me), Torians, and Altarians.

4. When you replace a ship (build a new ship and name it after a previous ship) the portrait doesn't change anywhere in the game.

5. Sometimes newly built ships do not appear in the Launch window and therefore cannot be used.

6. If you manually go to a planet and launch a ship or build an improvement the notification icon in the bottom right doesn't go away.


Critiques:
1. It would be great if in the ship building screen I could press a button and make the red dots go away so I can see the ship clearly.

2. Launching a ship could be easier. Launching one is fine, but when you have a bunch it takes a long time.

It would be great if in the ship building screen I could press a button and make the red dots go away so I can see the ship clearly.

There is one: have you looked at all buttons in the panel that rotate/zoom ship when designing them? Espcially the bottom left one ?

Well how 'bout that. Thanks. I really need a manual or something explaining all the features.