i have (or rather, had) two saved games (planets) really close to each other.
well, i allied with the planet that was my other saved game.
well IMMEDIATELY after i allied with them a plague/eco-disaster breaks out.
well when i went to stop the plague I COULDN'T DO ANYTHING.
no laser, no teleport beam, nothing to get rid of the plague.
it said "this can't be used in this system".
it subsequently wiped out a better part of the planet knocking it down from a T3 with multiple cities to a T2 planet with two cities (worse still this actually affected my actual saved game).

WHAT THE H*LL. if you're going to allow allying of planets that are other saved games, and allow disasters on those planets that i have to fix. THEN LET ME FIX THEM! ONE OF THESE TWO SITUATIONS HAS TO BE FIXED!! thankfully the save that was ruined wasn't all that important and i just deleted the save. BUT THIS NEEDS TO BE FIXED.



[EDIT: i see that i posted in the wrong forum, i will repost it in the right one]

luckygreentiger wrote:[EDIT: i see that i posted in the wrong forum, i will repost it in the right one]

Well if you mean that you want to be able to fix ecodisasters on another of your empire's home system the I think this is the right forum. Anyway, I have had this problem too, only it was on the moon of my other homeplanet; my ally didn't seem too angry though.

sparrior09 wrote:

luckygreentiger wrote:[EDIT: i see that i posted in the wrong forum, i will repost it in the right one]

Well if you mean that you want to be able to fix ecodisasters on another of your empire's home system the I think this is the right forum. Anyway, I have had this problem too, only it was on the moon of my other homeplanet; my ally didn't seem too angry though.

if it had just been my main planet's moon, i would've been upset, but not this upset.
no this was my main homeplanet. i lost several cities which i wouldn't be able to get back (i'd have to terraform it back up to T3 and it would only allow me 3 cities at that point and not it's original 8 or 9 or whatever).
in my opinion, it's a HUUUGE oversight and needs to be fixed.

Hmm. Dang :o I have a similar problem where if I come in contact with another saved game, then the game I talked to is...I guess broken and I get an error when I try to play on it, then it closes the game. I have avoided my saved games on my Shulug race since.

Download this mod. Be careful with your weapons, though-you might corrupt your save game. Read the warnings about impacts on your saved games, I've screwed them up more than once.

stardragon231 wrote:Download this mod. Be careful with your weapons, though-you might corrupt your save game. Read the warnings about impacts on your saved games, I've screwed them up more than once.

it's lame that you have to use a mod to fix, what is arguably a huge oversight that is still (to my knowledge), unfixed.

I think that little part of spore was a fail safe so that if two people shared an account, like me and my younger sister, if my little sister got upset she wouldn't attack one of my planets that are still in the creature stage with a planet buster. But it causes more harm than good.

tyrannolodon wrote:I think that little part of spore was a fail safe so that if two people shared an account, like me and my younger sister, if my little sister got upset she wouldn't attack one of my planets that are still in the creature stage with a planet buster. But it causes more harm than good.

i can see that--but i think it would make more sense just to have separate "galaxies".
or at the very least only be able to interact with the planet when you're allies.
i couldn't do anything to help the planet because the game wouldn't let me, yet because they were my ally they "required" me to fix their planet.

the simple solution to meet all criteria would be to not allow allying with saved games.

Or to disable ecodisasters on homeworlds for other saved games...