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Can't move Zone Borders - 6/19/2020 4:28:39 AM

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I just took an enemy city and got a new zone. The problem is that the zone shrank to a handful of hexes around the city, and now when I try to extend the borders nothing happens.

I've done this before, no problem, but now when I try to do so I get weird highlighted hexes, and it is try to adjust hexes of one of my other, adjacent zones. Not sure if this is a bug or I'm doing something wrong?

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RE: Can't move Zone Borders - 6/19/2020 4:40:59 AM

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I thought it was broken for ages until I realized it doesn't let you make single zone peninsulas - zone borders seem to have to be connected to the zone on at least 2 sides. Try adding it back in layers, starting closest to the existing zone.

I get the weird highlighting too - that seems to be a purely visual bug.

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RE: Can't move Zone Borders - 6/19/2020 5:30:54 AM

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Indeed, there is a purpose built limitation.

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RE: Can't move Zone Borders - 6/19/2020 2:11:04 PM

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quote:

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I thought it was broken for ages until I realized it doesn't let you make single zone peninsulas - zone borders seem to have to be connected to the zone on at least 2 sides. Try adding it back in layers, starting closest to the existing zone.

I get the weird highlighting too - that seems to be a purely visual bug.

Yes, when I did it for another zone, I noticed the hex-connection thing--no problem. But with this zone, it doesn't matter what I do, I can't get it to work.

The war is ongoing with the major regime that I conquered the zone from--could that be the reason?

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RE: Can't move Zone Borders - 6/19/2020 2:20:00 PM

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Any chance for a screenshot?

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RE: Can't move Zone Borders - 6/19/2020 3:13:30 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: 76mm

quote:

ORIGINAL: LordAldrich
I thought it was broken for ages until I realized it doesn't let you make single zone peninsulas - zone borders seem to have to be connected to the zone on at least 2 sides. Try adding it back in layers, starting closest to the existing zone.

I get the weird highlighting too - that seems to be a purely visual bug.

Yes, when I did it for another zone, I noticed the hex-connection thing--no problem. But with this zone, it doesn't matter what I do, I can't get it to work.

The war is ongoing with the major regime that I conquered the zone from--could that be the reason?

I was having sometimes hard times changing zone border.
I noticed that I missed something which seems pretty important (I'm simply stating it here just in case you missed it too) : you should try to right click first in an hex of the zone you want to increase size (this specify the zone you will increase), and then left click on an adjacent hex of the zone you want to increase.
Hope this may help !

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RE: Can't move Zone Borders - 6/19/2020 3:25:00 PM

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Here is a screenshot. The "zone" consists of the handful of hexes around Petroslope, the city in the center of the screen a few hexes to the NW of the main line. Please note:
1) the hex highlighting I mentioned;
2) the border of Petroslope (the zone I'm trying to change) used to be about 15 hexes to the west...during the on-going war it somehow shrank to the handful of hexes around the city that you can see in this shot. This has caused me a huge problem, because admin strain in Polyhead, my main zone, has now reached 47%!
3) As you can see, I am trying to change Petroslope's zone, but the screen says it is changing Polyhead.
4) Previously I changed a different zone's border, had absolutely no problem; now I tried to change that same zone's border again, and got the same kind of errors you see here.

I just saved and exited the game...perhaps it will be fixed when I reopen it this evening...if not I will not be able to continue this game, admin strain is crippling.

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RE: Can't move Zone Borders - 6/19/2020 4:18:11 PM

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If it persists (most probably) send a savefile to vic@vrdesigns.net please.

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RE: Can't move Zone Borders - 6/19/2020 5:11:39 PM

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OK, will let you know. In the same game, I had to terminate the game once because the AI turn was running for about 45 minutes without completing. When I exited and went to the same turn's autosave, same thing happened, but when I went to the previous turn I could proceed.

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RE: Can't move Zone Borders - 6/19/2020 5:55:25 PM

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Problem did not go away after I reopened the file. That is very disappointing to be 100+ turns into a game, and then have it corrupted. I will send it to your e-mails specified above.

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RE: Can't move Zone Borders - 6/19/2020 9:01:03 PM

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Are you blue? Did it happen after you took the city?

I find that whatever the game does to automatically reorganize zones--then or when I cut a zone in half--causes many strange consequences.

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RE: Can't move Zone Borders - 6/19/2020 9:07:22 PM

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The tool says it's painting for zone Polyhead. Is there a zone Polyhead?

Try right-clicking on the city and then selecting zone. That should get it to paint for Petroslope. Whichever zone you right-click in initially will be the zone it paints for.

Unless Polyhead and Petroslope are the same zone, then that would definitely be a bug.

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RE: Can't move Zone Borders - 6/19/2020 11:37:56 PM

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Are you blue? Did it happen after you took the city?

Yes, I was blue...did what happen after I took the city? The zone became mine--with a much reduced area--when I took the city. After that I tried to expand the zone from the handful of hexes around it, when I encountered the problem.

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RE: Can't move Zone Borders - 6/20/2020 7:34:43 AM

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I just had the same thing. That happens when you right click rather than left click to move the borders.

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RE: Can't move Zone Borders - 6/20/2020 2:14:40 PM

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I thought I had tried every combination of left and right-clicking, but Vic got it to work... But the hex highlighting is bug which will be fixed in the next patch.

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