That's cool for a workaround, but it would be nice to get some word from the devs about this. I have the savegame with the bad state. Is there a way I can upload that to help with the fix?
I got into a situation where the "next turn" button got stuck on "idle ship" greyed out. No amount of clicking on ships resolved that. I saved the game at that point and reloaded. I don't know if it's relevant, but the blue chick surrendered immediately on reload. Then when I finished the turn the button was stuck on "wait". I got a similar lockup during the tutorial, and this was only my second time playing the game, so it's not like this is an obscure issu
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