posted 03-25-99 05:25 PM ET        

Last night I was playing a game with the auto-design on for units, and after discovering both rover and the first sea chassis, I went into the design workshop to design a probe skimship. Yet, to my chagrin, I could not select any chassis other than infantry.

In another game started straight afterwards, my first city had a (red city radius) border which was three squares short at the top left. I could go into the base screen and allocate people there though.

Both games were as Morgan, and were played in the same "session" of SMAC. The only odd thing that I did was that when I first started the game, I was going to load a game, but changed my mind, hit ESC, and went back to the main screen to start a new game with custom planet settings.

I also started another game later as Zakharov, just to see if changing factions helped, and it was fine. I then restarted another as Morgan, and it seems to be working fine now. This has only happened the once (last night), and is on US version 3 (purchased in Australia).