A laser is light, right?
It is "light" damage xD
This bug still exists. I got the exact same thing in my 2.2.6 ME playthrough. Building defense platforms removed both the piracy and the trade routes.I posted this in the beta branch thread but it's too strange not to post here as well.
I've got some mysterious Trade Value flowing through my empire. Normally, I'd be happy to have free TV, but I'm an ME, so I have no idea what is happening. The system named Phonok in the picture below is especially confounding, since the trade route inexplicably stops right there. It can't be coming from the guy to my right, since they do not control any systems past our borders. Everything north of the system Mavall (just below CORE EXTENSION 015), following the hyperlane network, once belonged to the FP empire to my north, so I thought the trade route was a remnant of their stuff, but there was never a starbase in Phonok. I have tried clearing out the piracy, but it just comes back.
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Strangely enough, I am actually collecting 5.38 TV, which isn't even the amount the trade route is worth. It can't be because piracy is reducing it, but I just finished clearing all of it. I have checked all of my planets and none of them are producing TV, which MEs can't produce anyway.
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If it ended there I could accept it as a remnant trade route of the FP I attacked, but it gets weirder. I now have a trade route running across my core territory, which was never once controlled by an organic empire.
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I'm going to build a starbase in each of these systems in an attempt to forcibly update the piracy. Hopefully that will work.
EDIT 1: The starbases only work as long as they exist. Even waiting a month so everything updates and then disbanding the starbased just makes the piracy come back. This has annoyingly already spawned a nothing little pirate fleet that I had to swat.
EDIT 2: I've found it! Some organic empire on the other side of the wormhole REALLY wanted to get that TV to their capitol. Thanks to @metalosse for the tip. This is the most convoluted trade route I've seen thus far. I've closed my borders to them in response to this. I might take some of their territory for annoying me like this.
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Um.. okay?
Yuth precursor capital complex ruins on a ruined Cybrex ringworld. Does that mean the Yuth are actually the Cybrex?
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This needs some explanation, unfortunately I wasn't fast enough to screenshot what happened.
- The L-Gate cluster is dead.
- When I opened the L-Gate TWO of my systems had ETHER DRAKES spawn out of nowhere. Fortunately they were NEUTRAL and didn't attack. They quickly moved towards the L-Gates though and jumped through them. I was expecting them on the other side (L-Gate entry system guarded by 2 Ether Drakes would have been something), unfortunately... nothing.
WTF did just happen?
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Fanatic purifier surrendered to a just-awakened Benevolent Interventionists (xenobphile), only to fight alongside them against the swarm. These crazy men seem not that mad after all.
Well, I pushed end game date to 2375 and there are 3 FPs in the galaxy. There is a giant federation of AI (when you force spawn several federation builders and a fanatic befriender...), which can exterminate the FP, but somehow angered FE. I was trying to get tributes instead of going above admin cap and micro all that crap, and fanatic purifier isn't exactly the best kind of person to expropriate. Even metal heads will hand me their energy & mineral despite hate me to death.What I find strangest about this and most deserving of being in this thread is that a non-player fanatic purifier actually survived to the Crisis stage.
Well, I pushed end game date to 2375 and there are 3 FPs in the galaxy. There is a giant federation of AI (when you force spawn several federation builders and a fanatic befriender...), which can exterminate the FP, but somehow angered FE. I was trying to get tributes instead of going above admin cap and micro all that crap, and fanatic purifier isn't exactly the best kind of person to expropriate. Even metal heads will hand me their energy & mineral despite hate me to death.
That's something I saw the first time I ran into them, too. It was rather confusing- my only thought is that maybe its meant to be some contingency for if you don't have Distant Stars? You'd have to dig through the files to know for sure, I guess.
I mean, CEO "Computer Dodecahedron" should be a dead giveaway.
That's something I saw the first time I ran into them, too. It was rather confusing- my only thought is that maybe its meant to be some contingency for if you don't have Distant Stars? You'd have to dig through the files to know for sure, I guess.
I have all the DLC as well- but that doesn't mean something couldn't be misfiring!I do have all the DLCs up to this date, so it beats me. Still, I'm totally blaming them for the Contingency if they show up. Even if all hub worlds show up in my territory, I'm hunting those guys down with my fleets first thing!