Well it was definitely a bug. It took me another game year to finish the game with a conquest victory; in that time I never influenced conquerered a single planet. In other words I influenced conquered approximately 20 enemy planets over a span of about 20 turns, then over the next 70 turns I didn't influence conquer a single planet. This notwithstanding that almost every turn I had sevweral enemy planets with the red marker on them. i did E-mail a copy of the bugged game to stardock a couple we
Harrybanana
Well I'll keep trying and let you know how it goes; but at this point I really think it is more likely a bug then anything else. I have a total of 16 enemy planets with possible rebellion (I had several more but got tired of waiting so invaded them) with most of them being Altairian which has a loyalty rating of only 11%. My influence rating ranges from a low of 4.79X to a high of 68.88X with most being over 20X.
I am playing a game with abundant everything. My strategy is to conquer a couple planets in each system, build influence starbases and influence increasing buildings and then capture the last 1 or 2 planets in each system using influence alone. This plan was working great and for a period of about 15 or 20 turns I was capturing an average of about 1 planet a turn through influence and rebellion. Then about 15 turns ago I captured (by military conquest) an enemy planet that had the Mind Control C