Artifact Reward Issue Under 1.55.376713.1

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The screen snapshot below shows the reward for researching an Artifact.  I believe a word is missing between the words "valuable" and "relatively".  I believe the missing word should be "world" or "planet", but I will leave that up to your English major that is working on cleaning-up spelling and grammar issues.

Also, this is the second Artifact I have researched that says that there should be a new and valuable planet, but to my old eyes, no new and valuable planet has appeared.  Is it me?  Are the new planets near a star that I have not explored yet?  Is this a bug?

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Reply #1 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

Perhaps if the message gave the name of the new planet it would be easier to find it and verify that it exists.

Reply #2 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

Had this event and the planet appeared in my home system.

 

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Reply #3 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

Below is a screen snapshot of my home system and the only planets that I can see are the 3 I started with.

Reply #4 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

Had to ask.

Reply #5 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

I am not sure when this new planet showed-up, but I just noticed it.  It is one star system down from my home world.

Reply #6 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

That's a nice colony planet.  I had this event twice so far in my current game, same version as you.  I'll have to send a probe around to find them.

I'm really pleased with the changes to Artifacts rewards with this version.  No longer getting 75% Diablo Catalyst and Extension Module.  They've added back most of the old artifacts that you can save if you want to.  Much more interesting hunting them down.

Reply #7 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

I also noticed this new planet is the start system to the right of my home world:

Is the new planet hard to see?  This is another problem with the current method of displaying planet labels. Currently, if you move your cursor directly over any part of a planet label, the planet label disappears, allowing you to see what is under the label.  However, when you have a number of planets that are very close to each other, it can be a lot like playing Whack-A-Mole, where you are moving your cursor around making the labels disappear and reappear one at a time.

Recommendation 1:  Increase the radius around your cursor under which ALL labels disappear.

Recommendation 2:  When you move your cursor within the defined area of a sun ALL labels for objects in the sun's area disappear.

I do not know which recommendation is easier to implement or if you have a better idea for solving the visibility issue, but you really need to do something!

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Reply #8 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

Quoting PaulLach, reply 7

I also noticed this new planet is the start system to the right of my home world:



Is the new planet hard to see?  This is another problem with the current method of displaying planet labels. Currently, if you move your cursor directly over any part of a planet label, the planet label disappears, allowing you to see what is under the label.  However, when you have a number of planets that are very close to each other, it can be a lot like playing Whack-A-Mole, where you are moving your cursor around making the labels disappear and reappear one at a time.

Recommendation 1:  Increase the radius around your cursor under which ALL labels disappear.

Recommendation 2:  When you move your cursor within the defined area of a sun ALL labels for objects in the sun's area disappear.

I do not know which recommendation is easier to implement or if you have a better idea for solving the visibility issue, but you really need to do something!

You can zoom in and they will spread out. 

If you are zoomed to that level because you want icons instead of graphics set icon zoom to zero and you will never see the graphics again.

But that is one hell-of-a lot planets.

Reply #9 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

Quoting gypsy2299, reply 8
You can zoom in and they will spread out. 

If you are zoomed to that level because you want icons instead of graphics set icon zoom to zero and you will never see the graphics again.

But that is one hell-of-a lot planets.

With all due respect gypsy2299, that is not icon mode.  This is icon mode:

This is what zoomed-in looks like: