Galactic Civilizations IV: Supernova Galactic Civilizations IV: Supernova Galactic Civilizations IV

Oddities Under 1.60417998

Published on Saturday, June 17, 2023 By PaulLach In Galactic Civilizations IV

I have been seeing some odd behaviors so I made a save file for you to see two of them:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xpnrt6n5spgzddsa3t7v7/Oddities-Under-1.60.417998.GC4Sav?dl=0&rlkey=695abj6vveaqszxld8l265pcc

Steps to recreate the first oddity:

  1. Go to the star named "Rand".  The area around it should look like the first screen snapshot below.  Notice that there is only one planet visible and it is named "Rand III".
  2. Zoom-out and drag the view around until you can see both the Rand star system and my ship named "M.M.M.Discovery" as shown in the second screen snapshot below.
  3. Move the ship diagonally down and to the left one cell.
  4. Notice that 2 more planets in the Rand star system are now visible. WHY??? How does moving a ship that is not near the star system suddenly make planets visible?

Steps to recreate the second oddity:

  1. Move your cursor over the 3 visible planets in the Rand star system.
  2. You will only see a popup for Rand III.  Why do you not see a popup for the other 2 planets?
    1. If you click on Rand I or Rand II you will see the description for them in the lower left-hand corner, so the game knows that they are there and visible, but no popup.

This save is at turn 18 of the save I posted under the Galaxy Settings Issue post.  The settings I used for the game are shown in the third screen snapshot below.  Notice that the Star Frequency and Habitable Planets settings are both "Abundant".  I do not believe that this galaxy has an "abundant" number of habitable planets.  I only see 4 stars with at least 1 planet of class 16 or above.

Perhaps a distinction needs to be made between "core world candidate" planets (those of class 8 or above) and "resource" planets (those of class 7 or less).  I would expect the "Habitable Planets" setting to refer to "core world candidate" planets, not "resource" planets.