I think something is very wrong with influence

Krynn taking over the galaxy, influence covers all of the galazy save for me

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Something very weird just happenned. 

I'm playing Terran.  All major civilizations are active in the game, most of the minors too.
Suddenly, the map turns out all bright orange, as if everyone is now in Krynn's syndicate zone of influence.

As far as I can tell, no one has surrendered all at once.  I can still see the other races planets, so they haven't surrendered that.  I can see them all in the diplomacy screen.  If I try to trade techs with the Krynn, they don't show me any techs that I don't have (their list is empty), so I don't think it could be some sort of weird tech upgrade that I missed in the previous games :)

I did notice that their influence started going up very fast, they took over all of the Iridium planets with their influence.  I think what may be happening is some bonus from their starbases growing exponentially?  One hour ago, the game was normal.  Now suddenly, in a few turns, they have 3/4 of the galaxy.

 

I submitted two saved games for review, but I'm wondering if someone has seen something like that so far?

Ticket #GEO-344-68837


EDIT: And a few turns later, all the map is orange :)  Ugly color.  I want my beautiful blue back! :)

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Ok, here are the saves if you want to take a look at it.

#1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ngcq596yq1csz2h/possible%20influence%20bug.GC3Sav?dl=0

There they have about half the map under their influence.

 

#2.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4mq6bsoncrwbxt9/possible%20influence%20bug%20-%20now%20it%20is.GC3Sav?dl=0

Two turns after that, it grows to 3/4 of the map

 

#3

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ealytxa5ovyt1iw/possible%20influence%20bug%20-%20final.GC3Sav?dl=0

Two more turns and they take all of it.  My planets start to flip, I am gone.

 

#0

Actually, that was about an hour before this started happening, all appeared normal:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/k4apb6fild0kvqg/Before%20influence%20bug.GC3Sav?dl=0

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Just had a look at your saves... That's not Krynn - that's Iridium influence!

It seems like there's ONE planet that's giving the influence. Notice how (in the unexplored space) It's all straight lines.

They have one planet (Henrik III) with 2018 Influence, growing at 1.1 per turn.

I don't have much time atm, but in a few hours I'll take another look, if it's not already solved.

I expect it's an ideology thing.

 

Whoa, then Henrik III got taken over by the Krynn, and suddenly has 5016.5! Nice...

 

Edit: I had a bit of fun!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=434094174

 Something seems to happen when the planet gets conquered. (Tested multiple planets with all races)

When a planet is conquered, its influence seems to double (and then +% modifiers from tech, etc, on top of that)

I'll submit a ticket for this, referencing yours.

#GVX-928-59153

 

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I just experienced the same thing in my game.

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Ah, I always mixes the two, color wise, can't ever remember wich is wich.  Thank you for retesting this and pushing further :)

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Testing this all right now. Thanks for the saves, they are exactly what we need!

Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

You guys think this is Iridium specific? Happened to me too with those guys.

Reply #7 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

It happened to me while playing them....    I was like hmmm this is almost tooo easy.

Reply #8 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Happened to me playing a custom race as one of the AI opponents.

Reply #9 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Icrushthee, reply 6

You guys think this is Iridium specific? Happened to me too with those guys.
End of Icrushthee's quote

No, it happens with all races on all planets, regardless of ideology and buildings. It is an issue with invasions. The devs put something in aimed to stop planets flipping back after invading, and it worked too well.

Reply #10 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Niedzielan, reply 9


Quoting Icrushthee,
reply 6

You guys think this is Iridium specific? Happened to me too with those guys.



No, it happens with all races on all planets, regardless of ideology and buildings. It is an issue with invasions. The devs put something in aimed to stop planets flipping back after invading, and it worked too well.

End of Niedzielan's quote

Invading planets is already too easy as it is, and it would be much more realistic for an invader to expect considerable resistance from the local population after an invasion. If such an effect exists it ought to be toned down severely.