That's certainly strange. Do you have a save you could share with us showing your game? It seems like something went wrong in galaxy generation as we haven't seen other similar reports like this.Xmudder wrote: Mon Jun 15, 2026 11:16 pmGame settings were the same as always, although I had to change a few when the update rearranged them.MaximKI wrote: Mon Jun 15, 2026 5:41 pmWhat were your game settings? What do you mean by 'game did not spawn with the same race pirates'?Xmudder wrote: Fri Jun 12, 2026 10:34 pm 1.3.5.8 new game did not spawn with the same race pirates, no kill the hive mission tree. The hive now has a 30k fleet I did not know about. not sure what save game you might want.
edit: I also have not found my homeworld, constitution crystal, or got the research boosts for Fast Interceptors and Fast Bomber (Akdarian)
follow up: found my homeworld. Still no constitution crystal or fast fighters. When I killed the hive carrier, the other pirate factions joined me... and the remaining 4 now hate me for "you eliminated a pirate faction" -47, -75, -65, and -65
What do you mean 'no kill the hive mission tree' - do you mean pirates don't ping you for help against the Hive?
Was the Hive captured by pirates at all?
Regarding the tech bonuses - do you mean the starting tech bonuses the Ackdarians start with or that they get from finding their homeworld? It's possible some other empire got to the Ackdarian homeworld before you did.
There were no Akdarian space pirates, period. And no, no pirates asked me to save them from the hive - no ping. The hive also did not attack any of the pirate bases I was aware of, they just hung around a gas giant.
No idea what "Was the Hive captured by pirates at all?" means
Possible about another faction getting to my homeworld first, as both the homeworld and the medium ancient Akdarian starbase were closer to my neighbor's capital than mine. No constitution crystal (I did get the Human one though), no "100k to sacrifice a scientist to get fast bombers and interceptors (skip / wave) / 20k only get 1 and keep the scientist." It's called "Former Akdarian Colony" and costs 20k to be safe, and 100k to get both techs. So yeah, the faction story events were only half there. I did get Ancient Ruined Mine, Crashed Research Station, Ancient Spaceport, and Ruined Shipyard events though.
We would also recommend doing a Steam file verification if you're on Steam and/or a complete clean reinstall just to make sure there's nothing going wrong from installation issues.
Have you seen this happen in other games or just this one?
On the Hive ship question - pirate ships should be equipped with boarding pods, and there's a chance they may have captured Hive ships by some chance. That would be quite rare, but not impossible, os just wanted to see if such a situation occurred or not.
