Yeah, I can confirm the existence of this bug. It's actually one of those few rare but very memorable bugs, because it leaves you so much time to panic uselessly against the interface.
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> I've hit that one a few times over the years, but I've never seen a particular pattern to it, just forced the program to shut down and went back to my last save.
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> --- On Sun, 1/24/10, David Dunham <david_at_...> wrote:
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> >Also, heres a game breaking bug : Sometimes when you select to
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> >explore, but cancel out of it, the buttons will gray out like in the
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> >screenshot and you will be permanently stuck on the explore screen
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> >with no way out.
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> Any repro steps? Never seen that one.