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There are 2 things that are kind of wierd to me:
1) Senate elections for president: I can click a check box to say whom I vote for, but there is absolutely zero feedback letting me know if my vote was counted or not: in fact, the check box blanks if I click out of there to look at diplomacy or anything else. Since I live in the US, I think people can understand that I'm rather sensitive about making sure that my vote is actually counted
2) I cannot seem to, for the life of me, manage a ground invasion of the Orion system. I can invade damn near every other system, but not Orion. I can glass Orion planets with my Leviathan planet destroyers, but I cannot invade. Period. Ever. I spent about 50 turns hovering over Orion with loads of transport tf's (fully loaded, at that) - in fact, one of my colony ships went there and colonized an empty world - but no dice. I tried every permutation of assault, defense, blockade, etc, but NOTHING did *anything* other than kill the 1 or 2 ships the NO's had. I had a strength of 100+ (about half of that in fully loaded troop ships) and they had a strength of 2. WHY can't I attack em? Is that hard coded? Is there something I'm missing? I even went so far as to recruit about 50 military spies to go in and cause trouble, just in case there was some kind of defensive structure, but no... nothing. What am I missing?
3) Do the NO's *ever* respond to diplomatic actions? Do they ever do anything? Ever? Even a little bit? I've never had them send me a single message - even when I had a huge fleet hanging over their home worlds. I've only seen them do anything offensive 1 time - and that was to just send out a small fleet to ... uh... get destroyed. Are the NO's not supposed to be anything more than just these guys who chill out in the center of the galaxy, drinking beer and being president of the senate? I was all ready to be freaked out when I found myself starting 2 hops away from Orion in my first game, but they just sit there.
4) I did see them vote, once, and that was a Yea vote to condemn themselves. Seriously. The Silicoids got into a fight with them, and proposed a condemnation bill, and I figured "What the hell, they won't do anything" and seconded it - and the NO's voted yea. Maybe they have a sense of humor? I wonder what would happen if they voted "yea" on total war and senate expulsion against themselves.
Anyway, fun fun fun, but I'd really love to know why the above things happen (or don't, as the case may be).
1) Senate elections for president: I can click a check box to say whom I vote for, but there is absolutely zero feedback letting me know if my vote was counted or not: in fact, the check box blanks if I click out of there to look at diplomacy or anything else. Since I live in the US, I think people can understand that I'm rather sensitive about making sure that my vote is actually counted
2) I cannot seem to, for the life of me, manage a ground invasion of the Orion system. I can invade damn near every other system, but not Orion. I can glass Orion planets with my Leviathan planet destroyers, but I cannot invade. Period. Ever. I spent about 50 turns hovering over Orion with loads of transport tf's (fully loaded, at that) - in fact, one of my colony ships went there and colonized an empty world - but no dice. I tried every permutation of assault, defense, blockade, etc, but NOTHING did *anything* other than kill the 1 or 2 ships the NO's had. I had a strength of 100+ (about half of that in fully loaded troop ships) and they had a strength of 2. WHY can't I attack em? Is that hard coded? Is there something I'm missing? I even went so far as to recruit about 50 military spies to go in and cause trouble, just in case there was some kind of defensive structure, but no... nothing. What am I missing?
3) Do the NO's *ever* respond to diplomatic actions? Do they ever do anything? Ever? Even a little bit? I've never had them send me a single message - even when I had a huge fleet hanging over their home worlds. I've only seen them do anything offensive 1 time - and that was to just send out a small fleet to ... uh... get destroyed. Are the NO's not supposed to be anything more than just these guys who chill out in the center of the galaxy, drinking beer and being president of the senate? I was all ready to be freaked out when I found myself starting 2 hops away from Orion in my first game, but they just sit there.
4) I did see them vote, once, and that was a Yea vote to condemn themselves. Seriously. The Silicoids got into a fight with them, and proposed a condemnation bill, and I figured "What the hell, they won't do anything" and seconded it - and the NO's voted yea. Maybe they have a sense of humor? I wonder what would happen if they voted "yea" on total war and senate expulsion against themselves.
Anyway, fun fun fun, but I'd really love to know why the above things happen (or don't, as the case may be).
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