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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?

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.

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

Just sent it over.

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

Best wishes,
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!