My thanks, if random chance plays any role in this situation then the problem is explained! (I have legendarily poor luck when rolling for things - when playing Risk on the PS2, the game console at the end of the game reported I had the statistically lowest rolling average ever!)
Hello. I've been playing the game enough to get the feel of it, but a recent problem has me frustrated - namely, the influence necessary to take planets. I've taken planets before with influence successfully, so I thought the same would hold true in a large game I've been playing for a couple days now. It did, until I encountered a Dominion of Korx and an Altarian planet (That's two planets) close enough together that a single influence star
