What about sending you short movies captured from screen?  I have Screenflow here. If some odd behavior shows up due to my own gameplay style, you can see an unintended result. You up for that?

What "Regular Forums" are you referring to? On Itch or someplace else?

I still am having problem with the very first army that won't auto activate.  Not a huge  deal.

There are some differences with EDEE.  Right click your cities tp see what is  going on.

I really love the zoom in and out.  A lot of good work went into this. 

Got around to trying to actually play the game. 

There are a plethora of mildly irritating technical bugs with the interface.

There are some other bugs that make some of the features useless.  If you have a variety of units in a city with an air transport and perform any of the load functions, the priority of which units get loaded is arcane. I put one of every unit in a city. Load put the Long Range Nuke onboard the Air Transport first.  In EDEE, in the unit db, you could select the default unit to load for the specific transport unit. That is missing from the implementation of EDCE. A default would be workable but better would be able to prioritize the list of units to be transported.  

If you make a copy of any existing Unit DB, you cannot place any Air or Orbital unit (as applicable to the database) if using the copied database. The Terrain Placement Icons are grayed out and can't be changed. 

 Using the Enhanced DB that came with the game, whenever I bring up a unit that can be loaded (Truck, Helicopter, Transport, ...) in the unit dialog, the Load/Unload buttons are grayed out. The only way to load them is to activate the unit and then use either the keyboard binding  (if configured) or the buttons at the bottom of the screen. 

When I open the city dialog and the view the list of units, clicking on a nit should activate it. You have to go to the view units button at the bottom and then you can activate a unit in the list and then you can open the unit dialog by clicking on the active unit. Kind of cumbersome but it is inconsistent.

The save config dialog does not save the database. If you change the database, close the game, reopen the game and load the saved config, it does not restore the database for that config. It is unclear to me whether the database is being saved even when not desired or if the database if the database is not being saved separately.

By the way, it is spelled Seabee (not Sea Bee)  No space, no capital B

http://www.public.navy.mil/seabee/Pages/default.aspx <- straight from the U.S. Navy

Ok, when I copied the Advanced DB without any changes, no air units may be placed

When I copied the Enhanced DB without any changes, no air or orbital units may be placed

When I tried my database with a new unit, no air units are placeable. I tried playing it and discovered that my new unit could not be produced in a city. I went back into the DB editor and added my new unit as transportable by the city. I started a new game and all the air and orbital units may now be placed ??? If I go back into the DB Editor, the terrain placement blocks are still grayed out and inaccessible. If I save the DB and start a new game, no air or orbital units may be placed.

When play begins, the Placement and Remove Placement button should go away. 

I was playing with efficiency and city name stuff and the game is now frozen solid.

No I wasn't in Production Mode. 

The City Name toggle ... persists between instantiations of the App. Exiting from the gain does not reset toggles even if a new game is started.

I did a little poking around in your GE name file. The diacritical E and umlouted o are not valid in UTF-8. That is the reason that the file won't load in an xml editor or in a UTF-8 only editor. It is also inconsistent with your stated standards for the file in your HELP - all the files need to be UTF-8.   I changed the characters to an e and an o and removed the one single quote and that worked.

https://www.liquid-technologies.com/XML/EscapingData.aspx 

I rather suspect failure to escape the single quote may be what is  hosing up the Unit DB. I suspect when you make the copy of the Unit DB, you are not processing the single quote properly. This could cause all kinds of issues. 

The same issue with single quotes is present in some of your other files like the Localization XML. I went ahead and escaped all the single quotes per the standard and you are probably using a standard XML parser because all the single quotes appear like they should in the help and tool tip texts. I not sure why that was not giving you a problem with the game - maybe it is! In any case it appears that the escape sequences are being processed as they should be.

I created a map 200x38 with wrap only horixontally. This means that the whole map fits vertically on my screen with room leftover top and bottom from the icecap. IMHO, I should not be able to move the borders of the map beyond the top and bottom but I can. If I press center on a unit, it should center it horizontally and ignore vertical. Essentially the way EDEE works. The way it is it is really wonky!

I created the 200x38 map and populated a city with about 50 units I placed there. 

In the list of units, if you move a unit it swaps the unit. It should remove it from the list, and insert it in the list rather than swapping. This means anytime I drag and drop, my well ordered list gets all messed up. Moving a unit from near the bottom of the list to near the top of the list next to the units that I wanted to load onto it was tedious and time consuming in the extreme! Again, what it should do is when I reach the top of the list, the list should start scrolling until I get to where I want to drop it. I had to do 6 drag and drops to get it where it needed to be. 

Now if the load feature wouldn't always pick up my defensive units first (AA, Artillery) that might, repeat might be helpful. If I could, like EDEE select a "DEFAULT UNIT TO LOAD" or have a priority list for each unit that can host others that would be fantastic. (one priority list for each host unit). Drag and drop is extremely picky as far as positioning the item and there is no feed back like drag and drop in Windows that highlights the entry you are dropping onto before you release it. So a lot of my drag and drops just failed. What would be beneficial is if there was a Move Up or Move Down button (just one for the entire list) and pressing and keeping it pressed down would move my unit up or down in the list until I released the button. Better if I could select a group of units and move all of them as a group (like all of my infantry to my helicopters). What I would really like is a persistent Tree window like EDEE that allows interaction with the map. I could very rapidly organize (load/unload) and move out units. In most cases, for a city, I like to deal with all the  units in that city at one time.

You commented that a lot of people really liked the game. If you play a very simplistic game with very few units, yes, it is ok. Once you start accumulating units in one place, it becomes very tedious and onerous to deal with the unit lists. How to make this really  workable  - when I select a unit in the  list and I highlight  the load button, an additional list of all the units present in the City/Port/Airbase for my selected unit that I wish to fill  pops up and I get to select the units to add (multiples). That would really ease the tedium over the very the onerous multi Drag and Drop in these situations.   

Maybe a lot of the people who like this game just don't mind numbing, time wasting and extremely keyboard/mouse intensive tedium of doing what should be simple things with what I have found to be an extremely rudimentary interface. I am sincerely trying to be constructive. 

This game has absolutely tremendous potential for the concept but the interface needs a lot of turbocharging! It is sort of like an NFL game where every play gets flagged and every play has to be reviewed - it just ruins the flow of the game. By the time I get something done, I forget why I was doing it in the first place.. 

The game continually freezes up and my only recourse is to close the application. SAVE/EXIT does not work and neither does BAIL.

For buy/place games, why not permit Mines to be placed? If made expensive enough, that could provide interesting entertainment.

Is the AI code for EDCE posted on the Killerbee web site? Is it the same as EDEE.

Playing EDCE game on steam.. got words... EXIT FATAL ERROR #PLAYER 5, and something about finding LATEST LOG IN AREA WHERE DATA FILES ARE STORED.. where does steam save this on my computer??

Figured out how to lock up the game every time. If I select sort on the right border set of icons and then click on an icon, it seems to work but since I didn't complete the "sort" so it just locks up tighter than a tick.

Similarly  with the bottom set of icons

Imho, all the icons should be disabled while "sort" is enabled and if you single click on them, they should just return a message "finish sorting" or some such.

Yes, UNITY is limiting in the extreme! I now get that. Perhaps the choice to use the FREE  "Personal Unity Game Engine" may not have been such a wise choice. 

I have developed on multiple platforms and you take the strengths, not the least common denominator, of each platform when you develop and application. Then you port it to another platform and work through the issues of implementing the same or very similar functionality.  These all in one development tools usually are limited to the least common denominator between all OS and that usually means slightly better than single active window DOS functionality. Yeah, I will take a very long break from EDCE. It is nowhere ready for prime time. I want fluid, fast flowing fully featured games and this is not even close to it, yet. Why does it use 37% of all processors just sitting IDLE???? (for instance, just the opening screen but everything is 37% or much more  processor utilization (all processors) no matter what the game is or is not doing) 

I have an archive game with an AI error.  Is there a good place to upload this?

I am still having problems with units activating (flashing) once they are produced in a city.

I can manually check each and then manually activate them, but that would be a hassle later

in the game.  I suspect no one else is seeing this.

I just started a game with at least  2 cities.  Pavia, the first city, had its production set to make an army unit on turn 1.  I did 6 more turns.  On turn 7, the the city icon changed color.   No army icon is blinking.  On the turn, 8, I double clicked the city and the army unit is there but I have to activate it.  Move to the 2nd city, the same thing.  Later some of the cities will have armies that self-activate.

That sounds promising!  How do  you turn it on?  I've looked through the buttons and can't find it.

Not sure if this is, as they say, a bug or a feature, but if multiple archives are created from the same game on OS X, only the latest one shows in the Load Game dialog, even though all the individual files show in the "archives" folder.

I click 'wait' button and unit shows up at end of turn; click 'last' button and unit shows up either next or little later; button actions reversed?

Is there a missile/satellite launch button?

open reports window, click on a report, finish with it and close;  but reports window also closes; shouldn't it stay open and I close it with the 'close' button? also, at start of turn I read a few reports and then click 'continue' to start turn, sometimes get 'reports available'; very annoying since I just left reports.

could enemy units that are not seen anymore go 'darker', just to remind one that it is not seen by anyone.

the 'prep unload' button(s) don't seem very useful; or at least, have a 'prep to load' button, believe it would be more useful.

click on a unit and click a 'highlight' button, all same type units would highlight. useful in trying to determine distribution; (and where they currently are located).

  could the mouse be setup that click left button be move command and  right button be select unit?

installed build 7, immediately, got patrol routes remaining on screen when zooming in and out.

other games grey out areas' of the map that no longer can been seen. still don't understand why EDCE can't do this. would be 'easier' to see area's that are visually covered or find where satellites' are; ect....

would be nice if note tags could be set; to remember what I wanted to do in this location, ect... Or/and an art work layer or 'acetate' layer for making notes and drawing plans.......

Mark-

A suggestion-- can we segregate Mac, Linux, and Windows feedback into their own threads?   Might be easier for users to share similar issues and help you isolate bugs related to one OS API but not others?

Still trying to parse the Steam link to the game-- I am successfully driving an earlier DRM download, and it looks fantastic.

Best, as always.

Loren S. Miller