Era 3: Unable to designate new sector capitals?

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I can't seem to designate planets as sector capitals. The error I get is: "Sector capitals must be at least 250 light-years away from imperial capital." despite that they are withing 250 light years (and meet all other requirements).

Anyone else seeing this error?
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Capitals must be 250 ly away from any other capital.
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Ah, okay. That's a big change from the earlier versions.

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You have to either have a jumpship yard and establish the capital in the part of its beacon range that is beyond the capital's range, or convoy the transports with a gunship or capship fleet.
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Xephyr wrote:
Sat Apr 15, 2017 3:40 am
Ah, okay. That's a big change from the earlier versions.

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Yeah, that's definitely a big change from the last version. There were a couple of exploits involving creating lots of sector capitals. This change also slows down empire expansion (slightly). Plus it is consistent with the original purpose of a sector capital, which is to handle administration for planets too far away from the main capital.

See: https://ministry.kronosaur.com/record.hexm?id=3895
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