[Bugs] Race relations removes positive bonus, defeated AI marked as HUMAN in relations, Usability

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Caught a few today.

Race relations removes positive bonus

TEC Race relation research removed a +1.50 relations bonus I had with Advent:

(Save games)

Dead AIs show as "HUMAN"

When an AI surrenders, the treaty window shows the cracked glass, but the relations window shows them alive and marked as HUMAN.

 

Usability

In creating these screenshots, I also marked down a couple usability items that I think would make a big difference.

  • Text shadowing on the board, tooltips, and windows for dark colored factions makes it hard to read. Perhaps it could be helped by changing the shadow to improve readability (localized contrast).
  • When I view an opponent in the relationships tab, I want to go look at his treaty options. It tripped me up a few times as the two windows have different state memories - often the selected opponent changes. It would make it much more fluid if both windows kept the same selection between them.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Just following up this post with one of my own, in case the devs haven't noticed it yet!

It seems the "race relations" modifier is broken at the moment - for example I get 0.00 for AI players of the same race as myself (vasari) and a positive (+1.50) modifier with TEC or Advent at the start of the game. On "removing" the penalty via research, the positive modifier with other races drops to 0, and the modifier with other AI of the same race suddenly jumps up (to +1.00).

I'm a little confused by the whole thing, but I think the modifier with different races was intended to be negative, not positive to start, rising to zero on researching the tech, so it actually follows the description. For same-race modifiers, I've no idea if it's meant to begin at zero and rise to 1 or begin higher and rise even more, or begin higher and not rise... given same race interactions are not mentioned in the tech description.

While we're on the subject - why do I now sometimes offer a pact, have it accepted and hear the "acceptance" message from the AI, but then go back to the pacts screen to find it's been rejected/just hasn't worked properly?

 

Yslen

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

i got dip around the beginning of january, and i havent seen a race relations buff/debuff at all, or had any missions given to me, is this a bug?

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