How to get rid of enemy contacts?

[Garfunkel (OP)]

For some reason, I have leftover passive/thermal contacts from a race that I created through SM and who then got conquered/assimilated by the players. I used SM to transfer their assets over to the conquerors (basically Russia, China and Japan&S.Korea ganged up on North-Korea). Everything else went well but for some reason there's still a hostile thermal contact on Earth, reading "ID16398 Thermal 1".

I've gone through the "View Race Details" menu and I can't find a trace of them. Going to "Battle Control Window" doesn't help since it's a mere thermal contact and doesn't show up there. "Intelligence and Diplomacy" doesn't show them either, not for any race.

It wouldn't be an issue otherwise but the first civilian cargo ship was just launched and instead of doing what was contracted to it, it immediately ran away to the outer system. So I need to get rid of these hostile ghost contacts or the civilian shipping lines will be screwed over. Is there a way to do it or is the game doomed?

[chrislocke2000]

In the contacts tab on the main system screen there is a check box for "lost Contacts" make sure that is not checked.

[Garfunkel (OP)]

It's not that, double-checked. And that shouldn't make the civilian shipping flee from it it, in any case?

[sloanjh]

For some reason, I have leftover passive/thermal contacts from a race that I created through SM and who then got conquered/assimilated by the players. I used SM to transfer their assets over to the conquerors (basically Russia, China and Japan&S.Korea ganged up on North-Korea). Everything else went well but for some reason there's still a hostile thermal contact on Earth, reading "ID16398 Thermal 1".

I've gone through the "View Race Details" menu and I can't find a trace of them. Going to "Battle Control Window" doesn't help since it's a mere thermal contact and doesn't show up there. "Intelligence and Diplomacy" doesn't show them either, not for any race.

It wouldn't be an issue otherwise but the first civilian cargo ship was just launched and instead of doing what was contracted to it, it immediately ran away to the outer system. So I need to get rid of these hostile ghost contacts or the civilian shipping lines will be screwed over. Is there a way to do it or is the game doomed?

Did you delete the hostile race?  If so, it's possible there's a bug in the cleanup code and this contact is orphaned (with no way to get at it).  I'd go ahead and log an entry in the official bugs thread.

[EDIT] If you haven't deleted them, you should be able to go into SM and adjust both their and your diplomatic ratings towards each other.  Crank them up to 1000 and it will no longer be a hostile contact....

John

[Garfunkel (OP)]

The hostile race is gone and deleted. I definitely cannot find them in any of the screens where you select a player.

I'll log a bug. Too bad, looks like civilians are screwed in this game.