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Bugs
As of now, there are no patches for Star Control 3, so you will have to work around them yourself. Here are the ones that we know about:
- The number of colony landing pods gets messed up after awhile.
- Colonies stop upgrading after a certain amount of time. Turn down the factory slider to cure this.
- Dig sites take the same amount of time no matter what you do. In other words, you can set the time slider to as slow as you want, and the dig site will progress at the same rate.
- The white squares explosion bug. In melee, sometimes you get white squares that slow down the game. This is supposed to be a memory problem, but it still crops up even on systems with lots of memory.
- You can't talk to the K'Tang after they ally with you.
- A handful of planets don't display resource information.
- There is a really bad bug regarding the Owa -- see the section on them for more information.
