A Couple Major Drengin Issues

Well, I just had a very interesting game as the Drengin...

First of all, some of their improvement ordering is out of whack. The game refuses to upgrade Arenas into Arenas of Pain because it thinks Arenas are higher tech... Also, I somehow ended up with BOTH Entertainment Networks and Arenas (Not because of tech trading; I didn't even have Universal Translator researched).

The second (and much bigger) issue came when I invaded a planet (it belonged to the Arceans). After the successful invasion, BOOM, the entire minimap turns red. My influence literally covered 100% of a Small map just from conquering that planet; within two months, eight planets have rebelled to join me.

Needless to say, I won an influence victory.

EDIT: Also, because it occurs to me that I think the influence thing might have been already reported - is there a list somewhere of "bugs that have been reported" so I know to report a bug or not?

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Seilore

Join Date 10/2006

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Above in the pinned posts it shows some fixes in today's update and 1 that will be in a future update. It also shows now known bugs however this I didn't see listed and I might have missed this one but, I have not seen this in specific with the influence victory.

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WIllythemailboy

Join Date 03/2006

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This should be the list of currently-known bugs:

WWW Link

And this one is the issues that have been addressed (but may not be in the current beta yet)

WWW Link

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I've noticed in the TA games I've played that the Drengin seem to have an inordinate amount of influence as well. In every TA game once I encounter them they already have more than 50% of the votes in the UP while the Arceans and Terrans split up the remainder. This seems inconsistent with the typical Drengin.

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I'm working on the influence bug but so far I've been unable to reproduce it yet. Does anyone have a save game where the influence has already gone completely out of whack? I had one that was sent in, but when I loaded it, the bug didn't reproduce, so it must have been a random event or something that pushed it over the edge for the user who sent it in.

If you have a save game where the influence is already messed up, please zip and send it to gc2bugs@stardock.com and give any pertinent info about how to reproduce the problem (A particular planet with too much influence, etc).

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Also, I somehow ended up with BOTH Entertainment Networks and Arenas (Not because of tech trading; I didn't even have Universal Translator researched).

Entertainment Networks are tied to the first tech in the communications/diplomacy tree. For whatever reason, as soon as you research the tech before Universal Translators (xeno communications, I think) you'll have the ability to build either arenas and entertainment networks. I'm *thinking* this is a bug/oversight, as I wouldn't see why they would want to give the Drengin entertainment networks as an alternative to arenas at such an early point in the game. The Xeno Communications tech is the shortest or second shortest time to research on turn 1, I usually get it out of the way early so I can get translators and work on extorting those other weak races.

As far as the influence bug goes, Carri, I have noticed that unless the computer makes a concerted effort to mass their own influence, I have been having a ridiculously easy time flipping planets. 100% of my games in sandbox mode so far with the Drengin have started me with a PQ 4 planet in my starting star system - I ignore this planet with my first colony ship and find a better quality one to colonize. I end up forgetting the thing as I usually find a handful of much better planets fairly close by. Three games now I've had another race colonize this planet, only to flip to me some 4 or 5 turns later in two of those games. One of the games I recall my homeworld did have an influence bonus tile so I used it to build an influence building. That game it seemed like their planet flipped in only a couple of turns of being settled. The third game they brought a constructor in soon after settling and built an influence starbase. At that point, the skull and crossbones went away.

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In my current game of TA (latest beta), the Drengin seem normal-they have about 1/3 of the influence as reflected by their share of the UP votes. I cannot rule out that they just got lucky in my previous games and found a lot of planets, thus properly giving them a ijnfluence that goes along with that and the majority of the UP.

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The bug is when you start the game as the drengin. the newest tab has arena's when you click old tab it has arena of agony. which has no been researched, When you do research it you get enterainment networks. It shows up in newest. Arena of agony is still in old.

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