BUG: sector map star notes overwrite one another

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Short version:  try adding pins with custom notes to multiple stars on the star map, and clicking around to view different notes about different pins.  The notes will be smashed and overwritten.  Help!

 

Details:

Click tab to open the overlay and click on the Sector Map sub-tab.

Zoom in to be near your current location.

Click on a star and click the pin icon (target symbol with plus inside a circle).  Select a color for the pin and add custom notes and save.

Click on a different star and click the pin icon, and again, select a color + add custom notes.

Do this a few times, using different custom notes for each star/pin.

 

Expected behavior:

Each star/pin has its own custom notes and they don't overwrite one another.  Clicking around on the map at old and new pins doesn't change the custom note text.  Custom note text is only changed when you explicitly click to modify the text associated with that star/pin.

 

Actual behavior:

Custom notes for subsequent stars/pins are overwritten when you add one note to one star/pin then click around to other stars/pins.  You cannot revert to get your original notes back, they are lost for good.

 

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Reply #1 from StarControl Forums Top

Two clarifications.  Why is this so horrible?  Because I keep a summary of "stuff I left behind" in the notes of every star I visit.  But I wrote some of those notes days ago, there's no way I could remember them all to regenerate the notes.  If I accidentally overwrite my notes for a star/pin, my only options are to reload the game or revisit the star and re-scan every planetary body and re-create the notes.

Workaround:  if I'm very careful and only ever look at star/pin notes for a single star per session of looking at the map, that seems to prevent notes for star #1 to smash notes for star #2.

Thanks in advance for your help fixing this!

 

Reply #2 from StarControl Forums Top

Hello,

Sorry to hear you are having trouble.

Could you provide some video on your main issue(s)?  If not, and and at the very least, if you could upload a save that showcases the issue to a cloud drive service (Google Drive, DropBox, OneDrive) and post a link here, we will take a look at it thereafter. 

Thanks for the report and support.

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Sean Drohan
Stardock Customer Service Manager

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Reply #3 from StarControl Forums Top

Is there some easy way to capture game video, either built-in to Windows or built-in to the game itself?  I understand that might help convey the bug, but it's a big ask for a bug that should be pretty easy to repro by following the steps I've documented.  I don't mind uploading my save file but I'm not sure how you could see the bug in the save file.

 

Reply #4 from StarControl Forums Top

Apologies, it's not quite as easy to reproduce this problem as I thought.  I'll try to pin down very specific steps to repro.  I've also discovered "win + G" might work to record a video on my screen, so I'll give that a try if/when I can find specific repro steps.

 

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting rhaining, reply 4

Apologies, it's not quite as easy to reproduce this problem as I thought.  I'll try to pin down very specific steps to repro.  I've also discovered "win + G" might work to record a video on my screen, so I'll give that a try if/when I can find specific repro steps.

Great, thank you for the effort. 

Also, when you get the time to make the video, could you send us that very save once done?  It would just be helpful to match it up with video.

Again, thanks for the help here.

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Sean Drohan
Stardock Customer Service Manager