...Eh, maybe it was? 'Twas a while since I started playing again (started on release and kept playing on-and-off; tried a few games in the early 1.09x beta patches before deciding to wait for the big one), so I don't remember much. That, and I pointedly ignored the 'Selected opponents' subtitle that clearly labelled the two middle rows in favor of the pretty Bigfont Kingdoms and Empires of Elemental tags adorning the top and bottom sections. As I said earlier,
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Not sure if you've seen it, but I've posted a temp. solution in one of the threads you've posted. https://forums.elementalgame.com/402696/page/1/#2851439
Eh, sorry if this might sound stupid and condescending (not intending the latter at all; might not be able to help the former, heh) , but when selecting opponents, you're putting the factions that you want in-game in the middle 2 rows, right? The fact that you've played pre- 1.1 would make me assume that, but eh, when I came back for the patch after taking a break, it took me a while to realize that all my choices were the opposite of what I made; the 'Kingdoms' and 'Em
Now that I think about it, I think this fix has been posted before, but eh, memory ain't that good.
First time poster (huh; guess I can use my Impulse account to post here). I think I've found a way to fix this. Was looking at my custom races' .xml data, to see if there was anything different from the coreraceconfig .xml which has all the original races, and I noticed one thing: For the original races, all of them had 'Good' or 'Evil' Alignment tags. For all of my custom factions, they were automatically set to 'Neutral'.