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Offline Fleet Unity

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Spire Archives never seem to spawn on any map?
« on: April 02, 2014, 07:15:25 pm »
I am not sure if this is a new Glitch or what but are the Spire Archives support to spawn in every map? I know they used to. I first noticed this on a 120 X Planet map I am playing with two level 7 AI’s Mine Enthusiast/Chivalric and Zenith Descendant/Chivalric. I first noticed this on this map after I scouted all planets.  I unlocked the MKIV Scout Starships, as I like their abilities and they make scouting easier as they can slip past mines, and detect them so I can try to slip my fleet past them and send Cleanup Drones to destroy any minefield remains on planets I do not want to capture anyway, I have seen two on the same planet before but as of version 7.017 they do not seem to appear on any map at all. I tested this with Fog of War off on other maps with different AI types and they never seemed to spawn at all. I did a filter for them in the custom search one. I do not know if this is the right form to post this on or not I just thought I would post it here.

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Re: Spire Archives never seem to spawn on any map?
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2014, 07:17:08 pm »
To my recollection, we made that an option that you have to toggle on in the lobby.  Did you do that?
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Re: Spire Archives never seem to spawn on any map?
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2014, 07:20:57 pm »
For the Spire Archives? I looked I see no option to turn them on at all before unless it was changed like you said one per AI used to spawn close to a Home World or MKIV planet some times two would appear on one planet.

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Re: Spire Archives never seem to spawn on any map?
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2014, 07:22:24 pm »
I'm not sure, then -- Keith will probably be along with an answer, I suspect.
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Re: Spire Archives never seem to spawn on any map?
« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2014, 07:26:10 pm »
OK, thanks for your reply on this.

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Re: Spire Archives never seem to spawn on any map?
« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2014, 08:15:54 pm »
Looked at the code, I don't see any reason they wouldn't seed.  Tested starting a new galaxy, and both seed.  Not sure why they wouldn't have seeded for you.  Bear in mind that they try very hard to seed 2 hops from an AI HW.
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Re: Spire Archives never seem to spawn on any map?
« Reply #6 on: April 02, 2014, 08:16:29 pm »
Oh, this is probably not important in your case, but the archives don't seed if you have the Light of the Spire expansion disabled (or not installed).
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Re: Spire Archives never seem to spawn on any map?
« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2014, 08:39:05 pm »
Sorry you are right for some reason the custom "Spire Archive" filter search does not show them Edit: and I found out why I had my ships only on the display sorry about that Keith.
« Last Edit: April 02, 2014, 09:07:26 pm by Fleet Unity »

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Re: Spire Archives never seem to spawn on any map? [Resolved]
« Reply #8 on: April 02, 2014, 09:39:27 pm »
From now on I will be more careful to check all settings, I was not aware that some map filter view changes like "view all" or view only my ships carried over to every new game or game load sorry about that.
« Last Edit: April 02, 2014, 10:26:02 pm by Fleet Unity »