Reserved.

scifi, I'm curious, did you happen to start a new game, after having been in another one? I've noticed weird things on the map when I do that. If I quit out of the game completely, then load up, it's fine.

I'm trying out a custom civ (built in .90, now using in .92) to see if it plays ok.  I have a question about Factions.  I thought the assigned factions would be determined by the base civ you choose, but this doesn't seem to be the case.  I used Human & didn't get the same as the Terrans.  So I'm wondering if there is something that controls this or is it just random for Custom Civs?

Also wondering if we'll be able to eventually mod a totally custom civ in the game by adding a new race with selected Factions attached & a custom home star system, or will this have to be done by tweaking XML files like it was in GalCiv III?

I absolutely love the idea of playing with the Krynn and getting citizens of all species. There is one kind of awkward thing about playing with the Krynn, and that is that their "default" ideology is Harmony while a lot of the traits they would really like are in the Individualism tree. This isn't necessarily a problem, and if you pick from both Harmony and Individualism, it fits thematically with the idea of the Krynn as a collection of various races with a common religion.

There is, however, one thing that I would change. Right now, when you play the Krynn and you select the Preferred Culture trait (from Harmony), you get -5% approval for all your citizens. It's kind of a bummer when one of the traits in your preferred ideology tree is completely unpickable. The Preferred Culture trait is supposed to give +10% approval to every citizen of your starting race and -5% approval to all other citizens. Since they Krynn start out with every race (at least in theory), wouldn't it make more sense when they select this trait if their citizens got +10% approval instead of -5%?

Had the event that was supposed to give me a scientist citizen.  Didn't get one.  Was this because I didn't have the tech for training citizens to be scientists?  If that's why, I think that that option should have been blocked.

There appears to be a bug currently where citizens' approval only goes up to 96%, even when it should go higher. You can see from the photo, this particular citizen should have an approval well over 100%. The photo doesn't show it, but ALL the citizens here are stuck at 96% approval. As a consequence, my planet is capped at 96% as well.

I suspect I'm not the only one with this problem, but here is the save file just in case.

Do they show up after you reloaded a game like going "ctrl+n"? 

It has been noted that reloading without exiting may be causing this. 

It has been speculated that the blocked hexes are ones that on a previous map were occupied by a Black Hole and did not get erased in the new game as far as being no go hexes.

The Devs are well aware of this and are looking for a fix. 

Try saving and completely exiting the game and see if the blocked hexes are still there.

@tonymak

Edit: My bad I go here before I go to Discord.

This problem has been fixed and will be in the next update if it has not already been added. 

Bugs:
- MP: Game Mode selection does not work. Only Arena can be chosen. No tooltip that explains what Arena is
- MP: I select Starburst, but the picture does not change. Also this should allow up to 9 players but the slider for Human Players is still max 4
- MP: Victory conditions are still all disabled by default

Feedback:
- A huge starting sector is not much bigger than a medium starting sector. Some people want to play on a single sector map (not myself) but this way a single huge sector is no solution. If you got only one "huge" sector it is a tiny map
- Huge starting sector and two sectors (binary) shrinks your starting sector
- Huge starting sector and several sectors: you start at a bigger sector
- Conclusion: something about starting sector sizes is really weired
- Civ editor: following happend to me: I was almost done when I wanted to go back to change some earlier details and I pressed the button "Back"... No warning, no saving. I could start from scratch

Some feedback:

-On the planet screen, I would like the population counter to have tooltips. Show what factors set the population cap to where it is.

-Population should show how much growth is needed to grow the population to the next level.

-Why does more population slow growth? Shouldn't more population increase growth rate?

-Why is the cap to morale 96%? I would like to get the whole 100% morale.

-Tool tips for morale is not good. Its hard to tell how many entertainment districts would be needed to max out morale. I might get 3% morale with an entertainment district, but instead get a 1% improvement to morale. What is the base morale?

-When selecting ships, I want shift to select all ships between the 2 selected, and for ctrl to select ships one at a time. Currently shift acts like ctrl.

-Shift + Tool tips don't work in the tech navigator. Its hard to get fine details while looking at the big picture.

-Maybe change the button to explore tooltips should be alt (I want shift to do something else).

-I want to be able to zoom out when using the tech navigator. Probably a GalCiv 2 habit. It made moving around the tech tree easier.

-It seems that the tech navigator has 4 separate tech trees, but you can only explore them if you have a tech from that tree in your hand. I want to be able to explore all the tech trees, even if you don't have a required tech card in hand (such as when you focus your tech tree).

-I want to be able to destroy colony upgrades. The AI seems to like spamming orbital shields, which I think is a waste.

-I want to be able to use automate to not only change what ships are being built, but also make it repeat build. At this time, you can only add ships to the build queue. If you want repeat build, you need to go to each shipyard and make the change.

-I want to be able to use automate to add missions and goods to the build queue.

-I want rally points to be able to make multiple fleets. Currently everything breaks once you have 1 full fleet (all other ships don't join fleets).

-I want to be able to assign orders to fleets at rally points such as sentry (so I could build up fleets).

-I want rally points create fleets of certain size and composition. For instance, it might make a fleet that uses 4 medium combat ships and 1 survey ship.

That's due to the Ancient race trait. They are the only ones that get that research boost. Was the same in GC3.

yeah i got some pretty insane research numbers in gal civ 3 from being an ancient race mining ascension crystals. from the numbers you've throw up there though, it def looks like this might need a bit of a nerf in gal civ 4. if it's anything like 3 this type of thing can really only be done by players too, AI didnt focus on it like it should have in gal civ 3 i remember.

but yeah, for an ancient race, those crystals were the best resource in gal civ 3 and i made finding and capturing them my top priority at the beginning after colonizing the huge nearby planets. (only went after the planets first cause the AI was going for them too, they werent really rushing the crystals cause there's no reason for them to usually). the only drawback is the starbases and research required to make it work, but once u have those it's smooth sailing.

i havn't tried this tactic in 4, by my guess is it's kinda like 3. if you can just stay out of the fighting long enough to get those and build them up, you've basically won the game unless someone takes out your starbases. i guess this is similar to how an ascension victory is supposed to work anyway though. but yeah, i think this is one of those things that players can exploit to make it an easy game, but the AI prob won't become too overpowered over it. i'm actually working on custom races right now to try out once the game hits 1.0, and the Borg are synthetic, Ancient, Archeologists. so we'll see how the AI does with that trick on a custom race so far though i havnt seen the AI take too much advantage of this so i dont think it's too big a problem, but yeah, those numbers should prob get nerfed a bit so it's still a bit of a challenge for the player

They are, but they're mostly QOL things. There are so many things legitimately broken with the game that they really need to focus  on those.

There should be a comma between raiders and the.