PennyAnte

I'd like to see the race perk pick system be overhauled for internal consistency. There are things you can't pick with a custom race that some races have (miniaturization, more or fewer logistics points, the Torians [iirc] starting with one big world instead of a so-so world and a small world, etc.) I should be able to arrive at the exact makeup of any preset race with a custom's race pick options, in my opinion. Also, no race should end up with more or fewer overall total pick points.

My mistake on the bug - thought I had read the known list. You were right on the survey ship - I checked and there was one there, which is why I at first thought it was discolored. Hopefully that situation gets fixed at some point so it no longer crops up.

I was playing Drengin in TotA, and things were progressing normally, but suddenly on one particular turn my influence spread out of my corner over the whole galaxy and my population and income also shot up. I won a cultural victory before even building my first armed ship. I can post two autosaves if it helps. There also was an anomaly in this game (which was discolored - a civilization graveyard) that no survey ship could pop, and it had the effect of shutting down auto-survey.