Influence Flood! (1.0X)

I had a similar bug, for one turn the Arcean's influence was so high that the whole map was yellow and the ip ratio on the planets was about 130 and I got all kinds of warnings about rebellions.
Fortunately one turn later all was back to normal. (and no, I neither saved nor loaded the game at any point).

I also encountered this problem over the weekend after reloading after a crash.

The influence graph showed my influence pegged at 990,000-and-something.

It only lasted one turn though.

This happened to me as well against the Altarians. Only lasted one turn (woah @ 30k ratios of IP) and all was normal afterwards.

Same thing happened to me. The Altarians had almost infinite influence on the whole galaxy, but it lasted only one turn. I saved the game and was going to send it in as a bug, but then I remembered that this happened in GC1 as well, and I thought that it may just be a random event... Maybe I will still send it in.

I saw something similiar twice today. Both times, for a turn, the terrans suddenly controled the entire map. Both times Drath planets flipped to the terrans and the Drath were esentially destroyed. It would then go back to normal on the next turn or so.

The same thing happened in my game several times. Once it was for my race, after i invaded a planet and it suddenly had 4.2 quadrillion people on it. No wonder it produced loads of ip...

I suppose that's what happened the other times too.

Same thing happened to me. Got a cultural victory. I was in the middle of the universe andi build the Restaurant of Eternity. The a random event saying that people like foreing stuff pop up and BANG almost all the galaxy was under my color. 10 turn later I won. Of course it was on a small map but i think the multiplier or something is not right with this event. I won the game but it feel like a cheap victory. I didn't really sweat to obtain it...

I reloaded a saved game before the incident and it happened again but this time it lasted 3 turns before it went back to normal. Unfortunately later on when the terrans (me) and the Arceans were the only ones left, as we destroyed the Drengin, i couldn't win a diplo victory even though i had an alliance with the them. I clicked on the victory tab and it said that i had to form an alliance with the Torians to win. The problem was that there were NO Torrians!!!

I have just noticed another bug IN THE SAME GAME! In Foreign Policy under the UP tab the Korx and the Drengin who are both eliminated still show up as UP voters along with a healthy perecentage of votes. Woa! I guess this after the influence flood everything went crazy....

BlizzardGR, it sounds like a pretty big bug, maybe you should send it in to Stardock so that they can figure it out and fix it in the future. Like I said before this bug happened in GC1 as well, so they may have an idea what is causing it.

I had very similar behaviour in a game. The entire map was instantly flooded in Arcaen yellow. The IP ratio on my home planet was 539 or so. Next turn it was gone. It's caused a problem in the game though, because they flipped my best planet in that one turn.

So, my guess is they use an unsigned int to hold planet population. At some point in the invasion sequence, the planetary population gets set negative. Since it's unsigned, the negative wraps around and BLAMMO! There's probably even some code that tries to set the floor to zero or one, but since it's unsigned, that doesn't work (the damage is already done). I don't like using unsigned because it's unintuitive that way.

For the one turn they have huge population (so influence), then more than 4 quadrillion of the new citizens starve to death in a weak

I don't think my case was a population spike, because the population graph didn't change like the influence graph did.

I don't think my case was a population spike, because the population graph didn't change like the influence graph did.

Happened here aswell

For me usually happens when you invade a planet with X troops , use information to gain additional Y troop and you win the battle with < Y left

Numeric example :

You invade with 1000 troops , through information you subvert 200. You conquer the planet with 100 troops

I figured out why i couldn't win a diplo victory: Before i started the game i selected the Arceans, the Drengin, the Korx and the Torians as my rivals. When the game began i wasn't happy with my starting position and i regenerated the map multiple times (i did a lot of saves and loads at this stage as well). At some point weird things started to happen:
Sol was shown like any other random star system, meaning there was no mars and jupiter and the rest but Sol III, Sol IV etc. Only Earth had the same name but different interface. Also at some other point when i was finally happy with my position i noticed that the Torians weren't in the game! I ignored that and pretty soon i forgot about it until i had to make an alliance with them in order to win!

In short: it should be a reproducable bug.

I just had it happen again. What Bisio said is exactly what happened. I subverted some amount of the enemy, and ended up with less than I subverted. I had a huge amount of influence, and flipped 6-7 planets because of it. It seems kind of hollow, because I had worked hard to amost win a tech victory and now I have an influence victory that I didn't earn.

This is the much loathed "invasion population" or "invasion cheese" bug. having 900trillion people on one planet ups it's influence, making you the influence king! It's being worked on i'm sure

+1 for the influence flood bug for me too. After 1.0x.09 patch.
Galaxy became completely yellow for no reason at all.

I have the same problem, anyone have an email addy I can send a save game to?

Seen it happen many times. Just reload the last save and it will all go back to normal. Conquer that planet again and you are unlikely to get the same remainder. It's the reason why I set my auto save to every 2 turns. It also seems to happen in various other circumstances that I haven't fully isolated yet. Definitely annoying but I am sure it's being worked on.

Reloading does not work in my case. I also am not the one with the cheesy sphere of influence, it's one of the enemy A.I. dudes. They were taking over another enemy A.I.'s planets and everything seemed normal until they took over the planet of a minor race (Snathi) and had an instant influence explosion. I can see the planet's pop. & approval rating (which are "normal") but do not have a high enough level of intel to be able to see what improvements are on the planet, which is why I asked if there was somewhere I could email a saved game.