I kind of get what's he's going for here. In SMAC/X, the concept of pollution is one of harming the planet's natural ecosystem, so fungus, being native to the planet, doesn't increase pollution, whereas things like mines, boreholes, etc., do. On the other hand, even with eco techs, fungus never come...

The simple solution to cheap wins is just to not use them--I just don't use spies, but don't mind defending against them. What would be great is to make them more balanced. Maybe allow defensive spies in cities, and offensive spies have to defeat before they can conduct their missions, or at least h...

I didn't realize the code was being maintained by one volunteer player now, Xilmi--I just bought the game a couple of weeks ago. I wouldn't consider this a high priority bug if it's not a common issue for people. I wish more companies would let players improve the code when the primary dev live cycl...

Xilmi--I'm getting the same behavior with the 1.5.5 Beta (verified by seeing "1.5.5" at the bottom right of the menu screen)--I can load saves from earlier in that game, but I get the above violation trying to load later ones.

All my saves past a certain point in a game, including the autosaves, produce a GPF when attempting to load them. Pandora Version 1.5.4. Screenshot of the error, one of the saves that won't load, and the logs are attached.