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During my struggle to get the battle tank plans, I discovered one particular numbers bug:

- I am strongly convinced that it is triggered by the Supernova in the 4th solar system. It was very consistant, as the second the supernova 'video' was done, it would be pointless to add a miner droid due to the -3000ish in stock, as explained below.

I notice this only because I have built an actual colony on the Keplar moon(don't remember which system it is in atm).
If I want to add more miner droids to my mines, I HAVE TO be quick enough to do this(including building 9 mines) BEFORE the supernova, or else the stockpile number have changed into a negative -xxxx, and same goes for the 'Missile' item.

- The 'plus' part of this is, that later, when I finally* get the battle tank plans(and researched them) as well as aircrafts!, the good folks on Keplar suddenly seem to have a huge stock of these, 2-5000+ !!....
(problem is then to produce enough lasers, heh !)

*: after umpteen re-starts trying to get the Phelonians to talk to me, and still having no idea what triggered that spy in the bar FINALLY telling me about a new race in Phoenix system and their location/planet(Phoenix1) !
(as discovering it myself does not seem to trigger communications whatsoever)

In my final attempt/restart I DID try to research things faster, gunning for the best researcher from get go, sacrifcing building too much stuff to pay the 250.000 + 1 or 2 upgrades, all so I could go to the Phoenix star system with a Galleon before the very first Mogrul attack - BUT, no idea if that really is the trick, though...

I DO believe the cracked version actually IS worse when it comes to bugs, as my success was achieved with a full restart on a freshly installed original copy (acquired some time after I started playing). But even this one gives me the Keplar bug.

...mind you, I have not researched or tested this properly, like a professional QA tester would do, so there is most likely factors and random bugs that will affect things quite differently... but I'm just happy I finally got a bit further...

As for this beeing a good game, weell... not really.
I only play because I got some flashback looking at the control room screen on the Abandonia download page, obviously having (tried to) played it a long time ago but totally forgotten all about it!
(weird feeling... as I normally remember the games I play)