Non-aligned megazones

[Dotdotdot]

Not sure if this a bug or just a quirk in how zones are generated, but in my current game there's a massive non-aligned zone that covers about 80% of the planet with about 2500 free folk. So when I inserted some spies, I ended up with this:



Best part is that it's packed with nasty alien wildlife and that's keeping all the AIs hemmed in. Anyone else had similar experiences?

[Xxzard]

Me too, similar looking map, about the same proportion of gigantic non-aligned area - slight difference in zones. Also on a world with large quantities of alien wildlife.



Playing with complete fog of war, on Round 10, I sent spies to one of the non-aligned regions nearby my starting position, and the next round I found I had at least some recon on pretty much the whole map except minors and majors.

In my case it doesn't seem to be a single zone per se. You can see the "Tool Compound" zone partially highlighted, and there are other non-aligned zones that exist besides it on the zone list, but it appears the "Tool Compound" zone doesn't have a border between it and the other non-aligned zones. Later on in the game it went back to normal and the zones had proper borders again.

[Vic]

Could anybody send me an autosave to vic@vrdesigns.net , including a planetgeneration.se1 file if possible?

I want to double check this one. It might be there are no FreeFolk (at start) , no Hex Feats and thus it turns into one big Zone.

best,
Vic

[Dotdotdot]

Just sent it over.

[Vic]

Thanks guys. Seems there is 2 different unrelated issues. I am looking into both for the next patch.

Best wishes,
Vic

[Vic]

In the big-zone issue I think what happened is that the wildlife managed to take a City from a Minor/Major and then this became the Zone center for all non-aligned.

In the recon-to-far issue it was due to this too maybe, but more probable because the regime recon on non-alligned gave some zone recon on all its zones (revealing hexes everywhere).

Both issues are in repair!