Influence Lost when Loading a Saved Game

It'll come back next turn.

This influence thing seems to be the only major holdover from an old, larger set of similar problems on first turns after a reload. For quite a while, re-loading a game brought pretty much everything except ship movement to a complete stop. I have no taste for military wins, so this drove me crazy for a long while. Now, it only bothers me when I'm actively seeking an influence win or hoping for a few flips in a strategically important sector.

IIRC, both the intitial and current functionality represent some negotiations among competing values such as reload time, save game file size, and possibly some politics stuff about making it hard to use reloads to get what you want out of a computer game.

It isn't a huge problem, it's just somewhat annoying.

It does come back soon after, but I can't help but feeling it comes back differently (seems ok directly around the planets etc.) but it seems smaller than I remembered.

It's not big enough a problem for me to have tested it in any meaningful sense, was just curious.

Franbo

The game has to do an influence re-calc. It happens when something changes that affects influence. If nothing happens in the game to change it, you can be running with incorrect influence for several turns. What I do is build or destroy an influence base when I want to force a re-calc right after loading the game. It does cost a constructor. Just put nothing but a module on a small or tiny hull and keep a few on-hand. It's pretty cheap and it works, try it.

I had this happen during a huge war build-up vs the Yor. I had ships along the influence line. I'd only get a few minutes in on the game at this portion of the game, I was killing time while wife was on the phone during a movie). Each time I'd start up the game I'd be behind enemy lines and loose about 10 movement points. During the war this was also an issue since I was fighting fringe planets and working slowly into their area.