Anyone else's border visuals not working properly when you have custom-generated factions in your game?

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Sorry if this has been discussed here before. I am noticing in my current game that the custom empires I've tried to populate my galaxy with are not displaying their borders properly - specifically, the highlighted outermost part of their border, although the actual colouration of the hexagon grid works fine.

This is especially bad for the visuals in MY games because my preferred grid-style is to be able to see the grid when I zoom in, but then have it fade out when zoomed away, so all you see the is nice big blobs of empire colour on an otherwise pristine slab of spaaaaaaaace.

But it feels bad when you zoom out from this:

To see this: 

And suddenly, that custom empire fighting right in the middle of this crucial battleground just... disappears completely. Not only does it make it harder for me to make choices at a glance from a zoomed-out strategic POV, but it misrepresents the story that's been playing out between me and these characters, undercuts the visual drama of my galaxy, which can really feel like the biggest driver of everything I do in a game like this.

Here's another example, just to prove it's happening to multiple custom empires in my game and not just the reddish guys:

 

This yellow-gridded custom empire at the east side of this sector shows no border highlights at all, even though I've explored as far as the pink-bordered Festron in the west.

In the meantime, I can switch to perpetual-grid mode, which will at least show me the correct information:

But I do much prefer the visual style of the earlier pics, if there's some way to get the custom empires to show properly :D

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Reply #1 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

Hello!

I believe this issue has come up before, but to be on the safe side so we can examine the disappearing and compare, could you share your save and faction folders?

Reply #2 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

Hi Ramma thanks for replying :)

Here are the folders you requested (let me know if the link doesn't work)

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1frwOFnfJiZh5dFXL4VXm0dTOVLRq67T6?usp=sharing

The red faction from the first screenshots would be the Stenchborne Collective, and the yellow faction shown second would be the Astroclaw Coalition. 

You might find the colour values for the Stenchborne don't match what you see in the screenshots, because whilst I was seeing if I could fix this on my own a couple days ago, I did edit the faction again in the game menu and I think now their colours are set to green or yellow or something (but I guess it doesn't apply that change to a pre-existing save game).

Also I forgot to mention, the faction I'm actually playing is another custom-made faction (with AI generation involved, not sure if that matters) called Panda Collective (I'm super creative B)  ), but as you can see the highlighted borders have been appearing just fine for them. Is that just because it's the player faction, so it's at a different level of priority for the game to show it, or something? Also the denizens of my Panda faction are the only ones for whom I bothered to give custom species portraits, but not sure if that could possibly affect anything.

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