There are a few settings that seem to get overwritten when you change an entirely different setting. I've enumerated the issues below along with repro steps (without using mods):



For each of these issues the following settings remained constant, so you can set this here at the start before attempting to repro the bugs:

• Empires = 8
• Difficulty = Endless
• Game Speed = Normal
• Custom Factions = True
  
  
  • Timed Turns = False
  • Timed Battles = False
  • Encounter Sequence = Normal
  • Speed Scale Factor = Very Fast
  • Elimination Victory = True
  • Expansion Victory = True
  • Supremacy Victory = True
  • All other victory conditions = False
  • Dumping Method = Binary
  • Global Events = True
  • Empire Scores = Default
    
    
  
  
  

And here are the bugs:



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World Shape keeps resetting to 2 Continents

• Start a new game
• Set the World Size to Large
• Set the World Shape to Random
• Set the World Size to Huge
• Notice how World Shape is now set to 2 Continents
• This also occurs if you set the World Shape from within the advanced settings page.
  
  

Changing game mode from Singleplayer to Friends-only MP resets World Difficulty settings

• Start a new game
• Leave the game mode as Singleplayer
• Goto the Advanced Settings page for World Map Summary. Under World Difficulty:
• Set Empire Spawn = Spread
• Strategic Resources = Abundant
• Luxury Resources = Abundant
• Anomaly Odds = Many
• Click Apply.
• Change the game mode from Singleplayer to Friends-only multiplayer.
• Notice how the World Difficulty settings change back to normal (all other settings are unaffected though)
  
  

World Shape and Difficulty settings are not preserved between new games.

• Start a new game
• Goto the Advanced Settings page for World Map Summary. Under World Difficulty, set the following:
  
  
  • Set World Shape to Large Pangaea.
  • Set Empire Spawn = Spread
  • Strategic Resources = Abundant
  • Luxury Resources = Abundant
  • Anomaly Odds = Many
    
    
• Click Apply.
• Click Ready to start the game.
• Exit to main menu.
• Start a new game.
• Note how World Shape is reset to 2 Continents
• Note how World Difficulty is reset to Normal
• All other settings were as they were before.
  
  

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Fixing the above bugs would be great as it's really quite annoying to keep setting the World generation settings manually each time we want something custom. We play on Endless difficulty so there are a number of games where we are overrun pretty early and have to restart games often.