Cause of scale-loss bug found!

[Lord_Bob]

Machaka prefers Heat Scale +2

[Lord_Bob]

Since it must occur on the first turn, and the first turn is early spring, I suspect that Cold-3 would more likely flip the switch. But Heat-3 might do it as well.

It may be an overrun to Cold-4/Heat-4 that does it, maybe for races with a Non-Standard Income for temperatures. This triggers a not so heavily tested function.

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

I use 7-zip, or TugZip.

Free is good!

I've never had a scale bug with Agartha or late-era Atlantis.
The first doesn't have a special interaction with heat, the latter does...

I wonder if I can produce the scales bug on my machine. I've never had it, but my sp 'try-out-a-new-nation' games often involve scales of zero all around and a random pretender.

I'll have to try a race like R'lyeh.

[Cor2]

I use alzip, also free. User friendly and can open and zip in dozens of formats.