Unidentified Aliens - Can't research on them

[AtlasPoseidon]

Hey. I'm currently in the mid game of my first game, and there are some aliens I can't identify.
If I click on their stations or ships, it says I have to do a special project, but there aren't any for identifying anymore. (in the beginning phase of the game there were and they worked, I was able to identify some aliens)
Does anyone know how to fix this? Or experienced the same?

[Tim]

it seems i forgot to mention that i also lost the boosts of those space stations that went over to an unidentifiable empire... it seems that there are a few game breaking bugs in the mix... thats really too bad

[Odoku]

I had this happen too. They were unidentified and carried my flag. After several minutes of trying to figure it out however, they suddenly became my own units. It was like for a few minutes the game forgot that they belonged to me. So I think thats what it is, the game just failing to register that those stations or units belong to you, or perhaps another empire.

[Mattaui]

I've had this bug when aliens that I haven't met have been overcome by their androids. They still remain unknown however. So I guess the game doesn't have a way to describe 'alien civ that has been overcome by androids'.

[steelgod101a]

In my games I've had basicley all the above and this single ship with no colony relation, no empire in my empire list that it belongs to, described only as a nomadic empire. But remains non contactable or researchable etc. Just flys around aimlessly through all the systems and empires.

[greensniperhat]

Weird, I'm getting the no-contact-event bug, but only with Fallen Empires. OP, are you playing vanilla? Because I'm running some mods.

[Tim]

im playing vanilla indeed :)

[Darren]

Every time I've had a station in orbit of a planet that says I can't identify it with a special project it's ALWAYS been I needed to survey the planet to find the Early Space Age civilisation on the planet and then it wasn't unidentified anymore.

[Tim]

thats possible indeed but i also had the same issue with asteroids ;)

[Gibbles]

There used to be a bug where bronze age civilizations would get a bunch of random stuff spawning in space (monsters, mining stations, etc.). They would be unidentified because they belong to an unidentified civilization, but you couldn't research them because they are a planet bound empire. I read somewhere that bug was fixed but that might be what you encountered.

[JH]

greensniperhat původně napsal:

Weird, I'm getting the no-contact-event bug, but only with Fallen Empires. OP, are you playing vanilla? Because I'm running some mods.

Same, two games in a row now. I attacked one cos they kept randomly appearing and blowing up my constructors. I am sure they were rebuilding fleets too, they were neverending. I got bored of that and gave myself one of their ringworlds using the console, after which their other ringworld mysteriously turned into a proper fallen empire.

[Tim]

well i honestly dont know what is causing this bug... all i know is that is defintely there, it kind of ruins the game for me so i hope that paradox will adress this soon

[JH]

Found the culprit for my fallen empire problem, it's "The Belt" mod.

[Dray Prescot]

Sometimes at least, the Aliens research how to contact you which takes the project to research them off your list when they contact you diplomatically for the first time.

[StaempunkJoe]

Happened to me in my current game. In this case my xenophobic race pruged the stone age vermin that lived on that planet. When we were done with the purge, I made the mistake of not ensuring any of my race was left on the planet. As the last primitive died out, I lost the planet. My fleet happened to be in orbit over the planet and when I checked the planet and the other items in the system, it read as an Unidentified Alien and I couldn't research them. Wound up resettling the planet and everything reverted back to me.

[Slim Shady]

Mattaui původně napsal:

I've had this bug when aliens that I haven't met have been overcome by their androids. They still remain unknown however. So I guess the game doesn't have a way to describe 'alien civ that has been overcome by androids'.

I have the exact same issue, except i do know the aliens whos synthetics rebeled against them in that system, there is no way to establish communications tho. Anyone knows a fix for that ?