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r/Stellaris•
NSFWIssue

[Bug] Anyone else get the bug that gives you double or even triple influence upon meeting a new empire?

Most of the time in most games I get multiple response prompt windows whenever I meet a new empire. I used to dismiss it as a harmless bug until I noticed it was actually giving me tons of influence. It ends up giving me ~110-200 influence in total, often.

It even happened consistently in a recent multiplayer game I was in (to only me). I had the largest empire by like 2x systems and I still had 750 influence earlyish game (even having to blow excess on edicts once or twice)(not exterminator/devouring, etc btw). Everyone was going flat broke just trying to not get gobbled up by me.

To be honest, I experience gamebreaking bugs far more frequently in multiplayer than in solo

Posted Aug 26, 2018, 3:58 PM UTC

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pseudopadGas Giant•

I think it happens when you make first contact with an empire through other empires in certain cases.

If you know empire A B but not C, but C knows A and B, if C shares communications with A and B at the same time, C will find out about you from both A and B and you will make first contact with C twice.

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apf5•

Yes.

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WanHack•

Sometimes

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Libertine-Angel•

Yeah, about three times in my last game.

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hammirdown•

Yeah, luckily not multi-player so I can just remove the extra influence with console commands

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NSFWIssueOP•

Another thing that confuses me is the amounts of influence I get. It's always a lower number from the first prompt (40-50) then ~60ish for the second prompt then 70+ (pretty sure I've gotten 90 or more for the last one)

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