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In order for the developers to actually do something about a bug in Globulation 2, you need to provide quite a bit of information about the bug. In general, you should provide more information than less, as it's a lot easier for us to ignore irrelevant information than to chase after it later. If you need help making a complete bug report, you can always get someone in IRC to talk you through it. Although the information you need to provide will depend on the bug, here are some of the most important things you need to post:

• The operating system you're using - Windows XP, Debian GNU/Linux, MacOS Tiger, etc.
• If you are on a unix/linux operating system, the output of the `glob2 -version` command.
• Exactly what happens: whether the game crashes, displays something wrongly on-screen, etc.
• If possible, a step-by-step account of how to reproduce this bug, starting from the point you load the game.
• If you compiled glob2 yourself:

• The source you compiled from - Git (with commit number), Gentoo package (including package number), etc.
• Any compilation flags you used

• If Globulation 2 crashed:

• Any messages the program printed on the command-line before crashing.
• The contents of the "logs" subfolder in your personal "glob2" folder. For Mac and Linux users, this will be "~/.glob2/", and for windows users usually C:\Program Files\Globulation_2
• The contents of the "Autosave.game" file in the "games" folder inside your personal "glob2" folder, if the crash was during a game.

• If your bug involves a crash during a multiplayer game, you need to provide this information from everyone that was playing the game.

When you have all the information above, please report your bug through Github (old system, do not use: Savannah's bug reporting system), and we will get to it as soon as possible.