Atiya's Misfortune I just got bigger. Normal?

[dweikert]

I just had some weirdness where only my ships were seen in map mode and had to go back a few saves for normalcy to return. If not for that I would just assume this is part of the game but now when I go to Atiya's Misfortune I the sector is like 10x bigger than previous. What was the entire sector prior is now only a small portion of the sector with the rest of the sector showing as unexplored. Is this normal for the game or...

If it matters, I've finished terraforming Getsu Fune and am now adding the clinic.

Thanks
:Dan

[Alan Phipps]

The sector map coverage expands as some player asset moves further from the sector centre. That often used to be the case where player drones or deployables such as satellites or beacons would inexplicably shoot off at very high speed away from the playing area. Usually though, they would leave a very thin radiant track in the fog of war.

After a while of no expanded player activity there, the sector map *should* return to normal size, and quicker if any offending player asset is identified and deactivated or returned to the central area.

[dweikert]

Thanks. This was the sector where I was adding to a station when the weirdness started that I could only see my ships, hence my concern.
:D

Edit: Back to normal now.