I started a new game under 1.60.390049.2 using a custom civ that has 2 features that are of interest for this post:
- Proliferation, which builds 2 ships at a time, and
- Random for the Citizen Race
The citizens that I started with on my home world are shown in the first screen snapshot below. Note that I have 1 Irradiated Amoeba and one Festron. Both of these are known to "take over" other citizens, but my issue for this post is how fast the Irradiated Amoeba spreads.
Because I do not want either of these citizens in my home world, I chose to build a Constructor in my shipyard so that I could get rid of both of them right away. The shipyard said it would take 7 turns to build the Constructors.
However, at the start of the 2nd month, my Torian citizen had already been transformed into an Irradiated Larva as shown in the second screen snapshot below.
Now, at the start of the 3rd month, my Baratak citizen and my Festron citizen transformed into Irradiated Larvas and the Torian citizen that was an Irradiated Larva is now an Irradiated Nymph as shown in the third screen snapshot below.
I noticed this rapid spread of radiation effects under 1.60388302 as well so it is not new to 1.60390049.2. I can understand and accept the rate at which the Festron take over other citizens because I have time to do something about it, but the rate of spread of the radiation effects is so fast that I cannot do anything about it.
Is this the behavior that you intend for the Irradiated race?
