Ascension Crystals Disappeared on Reload of a Saved Game

To add to this, before I saved the game I had sent multiple constructors to build bases around Ascension crystals. On the reload those arrived in the spaces where the crystals formerly were located and found nothing. I mention this because I thought at first it might just be another version of the invisible ship or starbase bug but given that the constructors did not form a base when they entered the square formerly occupied by the Ascension crystals I'm pretty sure they've disappeared entirely and have not merely gone "invisible."

This may be the "Ascension Crystal Overload" bug mentioned on another thread. WWW Link Only five Ascension Crystals are supposed to appear in any game. With the "Ascension Crystal Overload" bug, numerous "fake" Ascension Crystals appear all over the map. If you build a starbase over one of the fake Ascension Crystals, then reload the game, all of the fake Ascension Crystals will disappear, leaving a starbase with no resource in the middle. However, I do not know if the "Ascension Crystal Overload" bug is the cause of all of the strange activity you are describing.

I guess the solution is to immediately save and reload the game at the very start and get rid of all of the "fake" crytals. I must have found at least one real one out there somewhere because I got a bonus.

I've discovered that on reload new "fake" crystals will appear. They appear on the map but if you click on them nothing happens and if you move a constructor on them nothing happens.