I have the power rating bug as well, and it does not need to be a high turn count for it to occur.

I think hes referring to the escort ships from the neutral line and some malevolent perk with increasing homework output.

Watchful seems to work for me. I think it only works for actual fleets though, which might be considered a bug.

That masscap bonus still works for some reason, though I have no idea how.

Hi, you mentioned the masscap bonus works for you, here are a few threads reporting the bug

https://forums.galciv3.com/473849/page/1/#3606790

https://forums.galciv3.com/473164/page/1/

 (this one includes text of the event which shows the error, targeting the faction rather than ship, which is still present in my files)

https://forums.galciv3.com/473651/page/1/#3604864

The event still doesn't work for me as of the latest version of the game (just had it go off last game I played and I chose it to try, and it didn't work again).

Also you mentioned watchful works for you? Can you explain how it works? I've tested it pretty thoroughly and couldn't see any results even with ships directly beside my planets. The Perk itself implies that every ship should receive a free escort fighter while in our 'Zone of Control' some take that to mean influence, others think it means something else (some sort of arbitrary hex radius of a planet i believe). In any case I've never gotten it to work, can you confirm?

Is that Plagarism IV, which let's you copy the Altarians homework on the bus?

EDIT: On ones that don't work, it looks like Awe3 still reduces your own ship's HP rather than enemy ones:

<Stats>
<EffectType>HitPointsCap</EffectType>
<Scope>ZOC</Scope>
<Target>
<TargetType>Ship</TargetType>
<TargetRelation>Self</TargetRelation>                  <---------- This one should read 'enemy'
</Target>
<BonusType>Multiplier</BonusType>
<Value>-0.25</Value>
</Stats>

Also the precursor planets colonization events that give +10 % damage output to weapons only actually provide 0.1 damage to weapons of the ENTIRE ship. So if a ship naturally had 200 beam attack, it should have 220 if you pick the colonization event, but instead you get 200.1 beam damage. It appears to be the same for the Kinetic and Beam events, as well as the +10% to all weapons event. Have not had the missile event yet.

Should be noted that the defensive bonuses to work as stated (+15 to shields gives 15% bonus to all shields on built ships).

I just tested it again with a fleet of 7 ships 6 hexes away from my closest planet (well inside my influence) no fighter. Then again with a fleet of 2 ships 2 hexes from the same planet, no fighter. I'm using downloaded ships (its all I ever use) but I cant see how that would make a difference.

Even if it does work for exelsis, it's not really working like it states in the description (where EVERY ship is supposed to receive an escort fighter).

Can anyone else confirm that this perk works for them? I've seen several threads in the forums saying it did not, but nothing more recent except my own (which was ignored ).

Also, not sure if this is intended (would be nice if someone else could confirm?). I made a custom race using the snathi tech, and chose not to take the ability 'scavenger' thinking it would unlock with tech. The tech tree provides lots of scavenger +% choices (70% I believe). In any case I haven't had a successful scavenge yet (with 100's of ships destroyed). I'm beginning to think that unless you take the ability the tech doesn't matter. Seems to be this bit of code right here in the ability (I think?)

  <RaceTrait>
    <InternalName>ScavengersAbility</InternalName>
    <DisplayName>ScavengersAbility_Name</DisplayName>
    <DisplayNameShort>ScavengersAbility_ShortName</DisplayNameShort>
    <Description>ScavengersAbility_Desc</Description>
    <IsAbility>1</IsAbility>
    <Mod>
      <EffectType>ScavengersAbility</EffectType>
      <Target>
        <TargetType>Faction</TargetType>
      </Target>
      <BonusType>Flat</BonusType>
      <Value>1</Value>
    </Mod>
    <Mod>
      <EffectType>ScavengersChance</EffectType>
      <Target>
        <TargetType>Faction</TargetType>
      </Target>
      <BonusType>Flat</BonusType>
      <Value>0.25</Value>
    </Mod>
  </RaceTrait>
 
</RaceTraitList>

whereas there is no 'ScavengersAbility' built into the tech tree, just % increases. Kinda seems like it should be a bug to me, anyone else agree/confirm?

Yeah, seems that way. If it's intended then there should be a warning when selecting the snathi tech tree, as the entire branch no longer works unless you pick that ability. I see no reason why the tech couldn't activate the ability as well though. Part of the reason I chose not to take the ability is the 95% chance at end game seemed too high for balance reasons, I didn't realize it would nullify the entire branch ^.^

Hey folks --

A quick update on these:

• "Pragmatic: Neutral" -- This is working as designed.
• Malevolent: Unnerving" and the "Design Revolution" event have been already addressed internally and are be part of our next patch
• Pragmatic: Watchful  -- We are investigating this
• Snathi scavenge ability is required for the scavenge related traits in their tree.  We'll add some feedback to the tree to make this clear
• No research points added when chosen: Are you referring to the Benevolent tree?  I just ran through them and got the research points.

Please continue to let us know if you see things that aren't working properly.  Thanks!

THIS

Also, I noticed that past turn 500/600 my power score begins to fluctuate every turn for no reason.  one turn it's 30k then drops to 0, just to jump to 40k thw next turn, weird. 

If 

If you have a save game that shows this, we'd love to look at it.  Can you submit a ticket (https://esupport.stardock.com/index.php?/Tickets/Submit) with the save game attached so we can take a look?  Thank you.