Registration Date: 06.02.2006
Posts: 197
Location: Cincinnati, OH, USA
"You can change your decision as often as you like" is a lie
Regarding voting to end a galaxy - it appears that if you vote to end a galaxy, you can change your decision for several turns, but after a certain point (still before the end is announced), if you voted to end the galaxy, you can't take it back!
__________________ Mr. Flibble says...
GAME OVER, BOYS!
Registration Date: 26.12.2004
Posts: 8,274
Location: Vienna, Austria
There is only one factor that defines if the vote button is enabled or not: the "galaxy-progress-rate", which is based on the scores of players in relation to the galaxy's overall score.
What probably happened here was, that the first player pulled away, which resulted in a high enough GPR to turn voting on. Then the leader was attacked and/or cut back in score, so that the GPR shrunk again below the threshold -> voting turned off again. Now that the galaxy has further progressed, the GPR is high enough to turn voting on again.
GAME OVER, BOYS! 
