Have only noticed this in Game G on UTW.

previous players of game G, Amra & Convict, both have said it occurred in previous bangs of same game.

anyway..
Seems that when someone in pimping ore the aliens will start claiming planets each time one is popped.

Eventually.. the number of planets will reach the games max and no more planets can be made.

As a corpie or myself is popping planets we even get a message that says the aliens (in this case Predators in game G) has claimed planet 'x' (or whatever the pimping script has named the planet).

Of course the planets are like ghost planets... they cannot be found anywhere in game... but still the games planet count rises.

The fix is that at tern all ghosted planets disappear and the games total planets are back down to normal.


Its only annoying when you are trying to pimp planets, but you cant... or when the other corp cant figure out whats going on and thinks you are doing a planet buyout.

wondering if anyone has ever experienced anything like this.

it happened to me in a subzero game on Navhaz, Sing thought it was game corruption rather than a bug.

It was cyclic, planet numbers would increase, hit some limit, then start over at the lowest available number and then start increasing again.

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I did? hrm... ok

Never seen this before... at least not that I know of.

So aliens are claiming planets that don't exist? Or they
do exist, and the aliens claim them, and they disappear?

The planets exits for a short time..

The aliens seem to claim the planet as soon as its made.

For example, I will run pimp (or some sort) .. I will pop a planet.. and almost immediately get a message that an alien has claimed that planet.

You can see the owner, which would be the aliens, when unloading the ore. Since it has no cit, of course it doesnt really bother the script in any way.

Then .. the script kills the planet.. so it doesnt exist anymore... BUT.. the games planet count still counts that planet after its destroyed.

We and other corps can run pimping scripts until the total number of popped planets = the games max planets.

then at tern.. the games planet count goes back to normal... then anyone is free to run a pimper again till enough planets are popped to reach the games max...again.

Also, doesnt Always happen.
This was happening last week... then.. it seemed to stop.. then a couple days ago it started up again. (not sure if sage turned aliens off or not during that time.. cant get hold of him for an answer. According to a few guys in the last game, when the same was happening, sage didnt believe them anyway.. but thats just 2nd hand info)



Maybe if the script Reclaimed the planet as corp/personal before killing it.. havent tried that.

So when detting an alien planet, t doesn't clear the planet count until extern.
At least not always.



Yeh, instead of "zdy" try "opzdy" and see if it helps. That way we could isolate
the problem as an alien-related problem.

I've seen this on the Beta Server as well. I just poped a planet next to SD and immediately the aliens claimed it. Game B. I reclaimed it and it's still mine.

I've seen it before as well. Not too long ago either was an older subzero game, and the aliens were good and plenty there. Like 20 ascians in one sector lol. I had planets to like count of 100 and one day i went to make some and was like planet number 3k something, reason i spoke up is not one person in the game was pimping anything. Fact everyone was dead except me. Couple days went by and i went to make another planet and count was back to normal. This was not a beta server either. Oh yeah and in another sub game i used to see them claiming my planets as i hazzed fedspace.