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Has anyone ever tried to give warp points a cloak level to simulate closed warp points ala starfire ? I'm thinking that there could be a few different obscuration levels ranging from the easy to find, to the invisible until high tech sensors are developed variety.

I've tweaked Kwok's BM 1.14b so no tech is truly "racial" and can eventually be researched; however, my workaround is a bit clunky with a significant amount of formulas in the Requirements of tech areas to see if an empire has the racial trait first and, if they do not, checking to see they meet the required tech level.

Here's one of my clunk formula examples:

Requirement 1 Formula                           := IIF(Empire_Has_Racial_Trait("Deeply Religious"), Get_Empire_Tech_Level("Ethics") >= 2, Get_Empire_Tech_Level("Ethics") >= 5)

A bit cumbersome but I was having fun trying to see what all I could do... in the above example you can see those with the Deeply Religious trait get access to that Tech Area sooner than those without. I've done similar tweaking with other traits and actually have it where Organics Manipulation doesn't even have Biology show up at all and has all techs that would branch off it available immediately while those without the trait have to research through the levels.

I was using battlestar galactica mod 4.2 ,with SEV patched to 1.74 ,

There me playing 4.2 for at least 100 turns, where i preset the map to only have 5 factions, but suddenly at this turn, loading screen (when pressed the next turn) says theres a 6 player! then my game crashes and just doesn't load anymore, so i had to manually shut down my laptop lol

Link to my crash save :

http://files.filefront.com/crash+game+saverar/;10960884;/fileinfo.html

So i looked at the saved game description, theres suddenly a virgon clan or something as faction lol, where i specifically unticked the computer generate empire or neutral faction option in the game setting when i set my game

Initially this isnt present during a start of a game, but as the game progresses the bug slowly takes over gameplay. The camera movements stop being smooth and the camera start to "hesitate" as you move it around, and unit movements start to act strange where the units will twitching back and forth as they move on. This continues until "backwards twitch" movement gets the upper hand and they'll be moving backwards instead of where they're supposed to go, resulting in a completely unplayable game.

This proplem doesnt stop even after re-starting the client, indicating strongly that saving the game saves the progress of this bug. This means that the current saved game will be completely unplayable after 150-200 turns. This has happened on 2 saves now and if this is something that can't be resolved quickly i'll be really dissapointed since i just bought this game.