Couple of Questions!

[HarryMudd]

Morning.
I have been playing UM5 for the first time and I'm quite impressed! Well done. I was always an STTNG fan but never got into DS9 as much so I'm not familiar with the Dominion.
Do the Dominion have a Home System?

I have subjugated several Cardassian systems, including Cardassia. I see I can set up a Provisional Government on subjugated worlds but I'm not being offered that on Cardassia. Bug or design?

Finally, a bug (I think!): I have just subjugated a Federation system, Icor, and looking at the energy page, I have both a Listening Post and an Isolinear Scanner. I thought the scanner was an upgrade from the listening post so how have I ended up with both?

Anyway, great game

-Mudd

[thunderchero]

I have subjugated several Cardassian systems, including Cardassia. I see I can set up a Provisional Government on subjugated worlds but I'm not being offered that on Cardassia. Bug or design?

this is by Design, Home systems would require separate structure for "conquered home system"

Finally, a bug (I think!): I have just subjugated a Federation system, Icor, and looking at the energy page, I have both a Listening Post and an Isolinear Scanner. I thought the scanner was an upgrade from the listening post so how have I ended up with both?

you could test this patch that UE detected error with scanner id change

scanner.patch

[HarryMudd]

Hi tc. Thanks for the reply.
Is there a home system for the Dominion?

I don't feel like patching the program. I'm happy to just play! I just wondered if this was a known glitch. I have attached the saved game file, if anyone want's to take a look.
-Mudd

[thunderchero]

Is there a home system for the Dominion?

Dominion Home system is named "Omarion"

[HarryMudd]

Omarion. OK, I'll look for that one.
As I said, I didn't follow DS9 as I did TNG.
Thanks

[HarryMudd]

Morning!
Found an annoying glitch in UM5, playing as the Dominion.
I have a colonised system that I'm just setting up. I filled the build queue, firstly with energy devices, then a shipyard to extend shiprange, then the morale boosting items.
On turn 22 I clicked 'buy' for the shipyard, then on turn 25 I realised the build hadn't been completed and was still showing as 'purchased'.
The only way to get it to complete was to clear the build queue, then add the shipyard again and click buy.
-Mudd!

[Tethys]

This happens frequently in GALM as well. I have not found any solution other than clearing out the build queue and rebuying it. I notice sometimes that when I send gifts to minors and then I go through and do my purchases, on the next turn my purchases will be returned to me because the gifts caused a negative balance. I believe this is from some patch from long ago, not sure which.

[Deimos]

Yea I've had the build queue issue quite a few times
Is the production cost in the negatives?

[HarryMudd]

Sorry; another random question!
Now that I'm well into a Dominion game, I'm finding that when I subjugate a system the first thing I do is put a Provisional Government and State Handouts into the build queue to start raising morale, followed by Death Camp. However, even on the turn immediately upon subjugation and with morale at Defiant, I often get a message "This would have no further effect on morale."
This surprises me as I usually found (on vanilla and ECM) that it could be applied whenever morale is Disgruntled or worse.

I also see that morale climbs to Fanatic very quickly, often within 10 turns, playing UM5. This seems to be the opposite to vanilla and ECM which had a tendency to drop slowly without any morale boosting events and which seemed to ignore the morale boosting structures. Not that I'm complaining!
-Mudd

[justanick]

I also see that morale climbs to Fanatic very quickly, often within 10 turns, playing UM5. This seems to be the opposite to vanilla and ECM which had a tendency to drop slowly without any morale boosting events and which seemed to ignore the morale boosting structures.

Morale in ECM works predictably the way it is meant to work. Morale structures like private farms give +1 morale each turn. But there is a subtraction if morale is above certain thresholds.

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[HarryMudd]

Afternoon.
I'm now playing a Cardassian session. Morale seems to climb much more slowly compared to Romulans & Dominion.
However, a possible bug here is, having built Subspace Scanners on a couple of systems, I'm not being offered the upgrade to Listening Post.
I was hoping to upgrade to Covert Sensor Array on those systems. Cardassia does have a Covert Sensor Array but it was present at start-up.
Bug or design?
-Mudd

[thunderchero]

bug

[HarryMudd]

OK. Hopefully it'll be fixed in a future update.

[HarryMudd]

Sorry, another small issue.
I'm on Turn 88 of my Cardassian session and I've just noticed I'm at war with the Dominion!
Looking back over my previous saved games (I always keep the last 4) I found war was declared on the previous turn but there was no notice given. In vanilla and ECM, a popup message is always shown that needed to be acknowledged.
UM5 doesn't provide this, nor does it show as an event on the Diplomacy Event screen. All I can see is a remark on the Turn events page. This makes it a little difficult to respond to. Attached is the turn 87 saved game file.
Bug?
-Mudd

[HarryMudd]

It happened again. The Klingons just attacked a Starbase. When I looked, the Klingon Symbol on the map screen was red. No pop-up, no event registered on the diplomacy screen. Clicking the Summary button on the map screen and scrolling to the bottom of the events, I found the message that the Klingons declared war.
Any chance this could be sorted in a future update?
-Mudd