It just doesn't seem likely. There are so few resources that it doesn't look like there can be more than 2 influence resources to develop, and I have an influence resource that I have almost fully developed. So please have Cari and/or Scott take a thorough look at the saved game I sent to them.

Thanks.

It seems to me that influence factor is a tiny bit too influential. In one of the games it worked in my favor and I achieved cultural win with the rate of planets switching to my side that was almost annoying. In the last game it worked against me. Although I was much more technologically advanced, had galactic federation government, had all cultural conquest technologies, had fully mined influence resource and additional cultural base with all the available upgrades (cultural factor 640), had monopoly on pain amplifiers and had political capital on one of the planets in that part of galaxy Dominion of Korx, without any monopolies, technologically much less advanced, and without any bases in the vicinity had that part (and very soon the rest of the galaxy) under its influence. The influence boundaries were moving each turn. When I lost more than half of the planets although still technologically more advanced the window popped up to inform me that Dominion of Korx just built the political capital…And Dominion of Korx had sub-normal intelligence.

yes. We're working on it.  There are some bugs with influence.