Is it impossible to build Entertainment Districts as the Nyx/synthetic factions?

[Deski]

Playing this game for the first time in a year and slightly baffled that I seemingly cannot build this district in my current game. I'm struggling to locate it on any of the techs in the Navigator either, although oddly I still see a lot of techs with "Upgrade Entertainment" as a feature you get from researching those.

Is this a bug or working as intended?

UPDATE: Just discovered that this is ONLY an issue for me when playing Nyx. Tested it as Yor and the bug isn't there for them.

[Draver]

Did you put down the Computational Core ? That needs to be built first before the entertainment district will show up on your homeworld.

[Deski]

Thanks for replying and yeah I did build that - but no option to build the Entertainment District on my homeworld/anywhere else yet that I can see.

I did notice there's an Approval improvement I can build, called a Maintenance Hub or it was something like that. It seems relatively good for Approval... is the idea that Nyx/synthetics are supposed to build this improvement, and Entertainment Districts are just removed for them?

[Draver]

Can you build manufacturing districts ? There was an issue with those not showing up if you let the Computational Core being built naturally instead of rush building it. Could be the same bug happening but for the entertainment district.

[Deski]

Yeah, I can build Manufacturing Districts. No issue there!

Also, I was curious about the bug you mentioned relating to the Computational Core, so in my game I just tried deleting the Core and immediately rebuilding it via rushing - but that didn't fix it. (Though I did temporarily lose and regain access to many buildings/districts, while the Core was gone).

I say "fix it", but maybe it's not a bug? Maybe this is intended? Have you personally (or anyone else who's reading) played Nyx recently, and found you could build Entertainment Districts?

[Draver]

Yeah, that wouldn't work to fix it. It didn't back then with the manufacturing district issue.

And yup, I did test it in a new game, and rush building the Computational Core did grant me access to the entertainment district. I've forwarded the issue!

[Deski]

Thanks for testing that, Draver, and forwarding it :)

It's especially strange because I also just tried starting a new game, rush building a Core in that one, and I have the exact same situation again and cannot build the entertainment districts. I wonder why this is happening in my GC4 but not yours.

[Draver]

Ahh, could you try to verify your game files in Steam ? Make sure that all is right on that side. Then try again, see if it works.

[Deski]

Ok I just tried that and it didn't work. Also I tried doing an uninstall and reinstall of my game, and that didn't work either. I'm always testing it by starting new games as well.

Just tried unsubscribing from all my custom factions on the workshop, re-verifying again, still doesn't work. (This is the only custom content I had, factions which people have made using the species pack).

I think I should also comment on something totally unrelated, just another weird thing which lends credence to this idea that my version of GalCiv 4 is just corrupt somehow. I don't see all of the technologies in the technology library - like upcoming ones, which you could get by unlocking the final culture point in an ideology. So Glorious Legacy from Traditionalism and Co-ordinated Travel from Totalitarianism, for instance, cannot be located in the tech library anywhere. I remember, when I played this game last year, I could see all of these techs in the library the whole time.

The only thing that has happened to my game in the intervening months is the DLCs Megastructures and Tales of the Arnor were added to it, because I was on the game-pass.

I think I will come back after another few updates and maybe things will just run differently? Thanks for your time so far though.

[Draver]

So if I understand correctly, you were running the game on gamepass, then you moved to Steam ? Do you have all the DLCs on Steam or only specific ones ? I presume you uninstalled the Gamepass version of the game ?

I mean one more thing you could do is rename this folder %userprofile%\Documents\My Games\GalCiv4 and start fresh on that front as well, but I don't see how that would lead to your issue to begin with.

[Deski]

Hi, sorry but I misremembered how I first bought the game and explained it incorrectly. I first bought the Supernova edition of the game at the start of 2024. Then in August, I bought some kind of "expansion pass" which contained a soundtrack, Warlords, the Species Pack, Megastructures and then Tales of the Arnor.

So the only changes I'm aware of happening to my version of game since I played it last year (when it seemed to run okay), are Megastructures and then Tales of the Arnor becoming activated at the end of 2024 because of that expansion pass. It might not matter, though? Ok, I'll try that folder renaming trick now, thanks :)

[Deski]

Tried renaming the folder too, no luck!

[Draver]

One last thing, are you using the Nyx as is or are you modifying them ?

[Deski]

Just as their default

[Draver]

Alright. As said, I've forwarded this thread and hopefully it'll get looked into. I'm a bit puzzle as to why I cannot replicate it on my side though. Anyway, thank you for all the info!

[Deski]

By the way I just tested a new game as the Yor and I can build Entertainment Districts immediately - don't even need the Computational Core. It's only in my new Nyx games where I get the problem.

The Yor game I just started also doesn't have that weird issue I was having where certain technologies aren't showing up in the Technology Library.