Impossible to gain influence... like ever

[kasnavada]

Anyone had the same problem ?

So ok, I'm in a bad shape and a fear empire has formed. Since then there is basically nothing I can do to gain even a single point of influence.

Needless to say, without influence I can't do anything since I can't start actions anywhere.

Any clue why ? If it's intended I'd like to know how to prevent that situation from occuring, as it's not any fun not being able to do anything meaningful.

[topper]

A few other people are seeing this too, it is probably a bug related to fear empires.

It is already in Mantis here, so don't worry about it.

The devs will probably be either fixing it or clarifying why it is happening in a new patch soon.

[x4000]

Thanks!

* Fixed a couple of confusing things with hostile alliances:
** On "The Betrayed," added a clarifying note to its tooltip stating that no further influence can be gained with that race.
** On Fear Empires, there was previously a rule saying that while it existed, you could not gain any influence with ANY other races.  That has been changed so that you just can't gain influence with the Fear Empire race, and the tooltip now reflects that.
** Previously, you could not gain influence with Smuggler Empires, but now you can.