Hey all;

I've been a big fan of this title for quite a while, though I haven't been able to justify playing much of it to myself until lately (I picked up entrenchment and decided that'd be a good excuse to sink myself into it again).  One major bug that I have experienced from the get-go with the game, since the original version off the CD through every patch I've tried including the latest updates from Impulse, is a problem with custom maps.

When I create a custom system with multiple stars in it, the clouds that depict distant star systems don't get drawn.  I can start a game on a factory-shipped map and see the other stars just fine (at least lately, I seem to recall having problems with this too in the past).  My custom maps tend to be enormous, with the maximum length phase lanes and orbit radii (i like epically huge, plodding gameplay).  I'm not sure if this is part of the problem or not.

Anyway, has anyone else experienced this?  It gets pretty difficult sending ships to a new system for the first time if I haven't discovered it yet when I can't see where the star is supposed to be when I zoom out.  It's literally like trying to find a needle in a haystack, since there is no way to identify the star out of the blackness of space.