I like the new Ideology system, but it seems to take too long between getting a culture point to pick. In my Large galaxy game, it is now turn 141. 

I have 5 cores and 23 colonies. Only two of these colonies were conquered.

I am favouring Opportunity - I now have 5 available traits to unlock.

I have only had two culture points to spend so far. Seems low to me.

This is a problem that I also noticed in 0.4 as well as in 0.45. I thought it would have been noticed and fixed by now

If the main Map has more than 5 Icons on the lower right hand corner (just above end turn button) for items for you to choose to use, such as Chimeric Biomass, Barnal Sphere, Precursor Archive, etc.,  any Icons to the left of those 5 Icons can NOT be chosen (what you see with your tooltip is the Influence on the tile below the Icon rather than the item you might want to use), until you use up one of those 5 Icons and they shift to the right where they can be chosen.

At the time (in 0.45) that I posted this message I had Icons for 7 different things that I should have been able to choose to use, but the left 2 items could not be chosen.

I verified today, that when I choose one of those 5 that only had one of it (the Precursor Archive, in this particular case), then the Chimeric Biomass Icon shifted to the right and I was then able to choose and use it as well.

I can't figure out how 10%+10%+10%+3%-18.2% = 21.6%. Either it's a bug or a totally opaque methodology.

Visual problem for those subject to Ocular Migraines, need a way to turn off the cosmetic clouds on the map also darker hex lines. It was bad in 3 but really horrible in 4. It has almost gotten to the point of being game breaking for me.

I set up a huge map with three opponents and still get one in my starting sector. This too is a near game breaker for me. If I wanted to play a war game I would play on tiny maps. I however want to play a 4X game so the Alien Scum should be sectors away depending how many I choose to play. Huge map 4 Scum chosen several sectors away. Doesn't mean Minors can not be closer but, if I chose for them to be rare they too should be distant.

I know in 3 I could edit maps to my liking but, that solution is a monumental pain in the fourth point of contact.

I would like an option to fix my problem with the graphics.

I would like a set up option where I can choose opponents to be 1,2,or more sectors away with minors being say half that. Not talking about pirates, precursors, or space monsters ( although I think SMs are scientifically impossible) but the single planetary dwellers.

Suggestion: I had an interesting idea (actually 2 Ideas): A Specialist Citizen (NOT a Leader) (in two versions) who could Raise (or Lower) the Tax Rate of the World where it is located, to be different the Civilization wide Tax Rate.

You might call him a tax collector, or a customs agent, etc.

In addition, it's possible to queue them on multiple planets and construct more than one, so long as you add them to the build queue simultaneously.  Once the first is constructed, no more can be added, but those still in queues are constructed successfully, even if construction hasn't started.

So yes, something is definitely not working as intended here.

Two questions, one a potential bug and one I may just be missing:

1.  Has anyone else gotten stuck because the game keeps treating a ship in a subspace stream as an idle ship?  I can't advance to the next turn because the "idle ship" button remains, and defaults to a ship in the subspace stream, but won't let me do anything with that ship.

2.  Is there a way to see the factors leading to the happiness of people on colonies?  With core worlds I can mouse over citizens but with colonies it seems like I can only get the final number.

On the same game I just posted about above, I'm on turn 164 and so far have gotten only two culture points (as results of missions). A couple of times I've had events pop up that said they would award a culture point, but none was awarded. And no, I'm not confusing ideology awareness points with culture points, I've had many more events award ideology awareness, the ones I'm talking about specifically said +1 culture.

Edit: To follow up, one of the events I had gotten was The Museum. The choices say that it grants both an ideology awareness point AND a culture point. I just got it again, and once again it did not give a culture point.

It has happened to me when the ship did not have Infinite Range in one of my early 0.4 games where I did bot know anything about the the Subspace Stream and the Sector that it lead to, and the ship did not have the range to get to the other end. The ONLY "solution" that I could find was to DELETE (or destroy/decommission) the ship. So instead I just went back to the most recent saved game where that ship had not yet entered the Subspace Stream, and did NOT let go into it.

Later in the game when you have more range it can be possible for non Infinite Range ships to use Subspace Streams. But be very careful, you do NOT want to destroy your only copy of the Discovery with all of it's upgrades (which happened with me since Discovery was the ship that was stuck, and I could not even order to come back to the origin end).

I know that I had at least one event (since it just happened to me) and possibly one or two other events in my 0.45 game that should have lead to me being able to chose an Ideology, but I did not get an Ideology because I did not get the Culture Point needed with the event. I am up to turn 114, i.e. over 2 game years into my game on an ARM size Map with 16 other AI gifted Races.

added: I just remembered: it was the end of year 2/start of year 3 special event with 3 choices. It looked like I should have gotten to choose an Ideology as a result of that Event, but I was unable to do so when I went to Ideology Screen, since I had no Culture Points.

After researching small hull and getting my list of buildable ships expanded, the entry for the armed shuttle disappeared, even though it is still selectable and the tooltip still shows it is there. Note that I had clicked on the arrow above the F110 Phantom to expand the list to show its predecessors. When I had done that on previous turns the armed shuttle appeared correctly.

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I'm not a developer, but typically we put the save file in a file sharing system (I use Dropbox) and then paste a link to it here in the forums. That allows the developers to download the file from the file sharing system.