The Patch!

[Tomgs]

Sir Darwin I also had the problem with the saved games. I used an existing race that I saved when I had all the colonization techs so that I would have ships already designed. But when I used that saved race to start a new game it showed all planets as colonizable to me even though I only had the tech for one type of planet. I thought that was because it saw I had ships with all 3 techs in my ship list. Of course I couldn't use the other colonization ships they said insufficient technology and couldn't be selected but since you do get experience points for using the same race over again this would be a deterent to that.

I haven't tried this yet since the patch so I don't know if it was fixed or not. I know they fixed another problem I had that caused a race to suddenly max out its experience points.

One thing I did notice since the patch the population growth was different in two games back to back using the same race ( I saved the race and selected it for the second game so the racial picks and bonus are identical). In the first on an optimal world with a jubilent population I had 37% growth the next game with only a good world it was 45% an unpleasant world had 41%.