No tech trading Blind exploration Research and influence victory disabled Random everything except difficulty (currently at tough) Makes for fun games that can be quite different from one to the next. I usually play as the Yor (+25 minituarization is awesome) with their traits rearranged to give me +20% PQ, 1 in luck, and the final point in whatever I feel like at the time.
The same thing happened to me, only it was the Drath. We were best buddies, had lots of trade flowing, on opposite sides of the galaxy separated by 2 other civs, and they had just given me ships to help my war effort against the strongest civ. Then I get the "this isn't a video game, I can see what you're doing with those transports" speech, and they declare war. I only had 1 transport, right next to my home planet, which also happened to be right next a Drath influence base. I was trying to
Same bug just got me. My turn button was green when I hit it. What's neat is, if I reload a previous save while the turn button is missing, it won't reappear in the reloaded game either. I have to quit and restart to get it back. I sent a debug and save file to the email address.
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