Honestly, a lot of these ideas I either don't like (although maybe they could be tweaked into something better), or I like but I think are out of scope. I'm not sure I like this one of mine either, but hey, maybe it'll inspire somebody. It's inspired by the campaign events.

What about an event that occurs when the most pathetic civ is on the ropes and on the verge of surrendering. They find a way to escape by entering the Arnorian pocket dimension, simultaneously releasing the Dread Lords. Their planets are ceded to the Dread Lords and their ships and starbases disappear.

Some number of turns later, if the game is still going on, they return with all the techs (but cannot win a tech victory anymore, so there is no "cheese" win) and colonize a new planet, or possibly just outright take their old homeworld back. Maybe some renegades of their race release them again or maybe they are just so much more 1337 than the Dread Lords that it only takes them a year to figure out how to escape. The race has its aggression boosted a bit too so that it takes its window of opportunity to reassert itself as a galactic power rather than just making peace with everybody and being essentially a minor race.

This could at the same time help make the Dread Lords event suck a little less, since they'll still have no ships but they will have a few planets with some infrastructure right off the bat.

Also, by far my favourite idea is something that turns a minor civ into a major civ. It could be a bit difficult to get them started though, since probably every other planet is colonized and they have just one.

Ouch man.....does Galciv2 support Macintosh for that matter?  


Actually, windows would be a chaotic place where system idle process is the powermongering overlord! And just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, Norton starts sucking power out of windows! And the Drengins start conquering RAM!

......come to think of it, that wouldn't be a bad game! I wonder if someone can mod this into Galciv2-(Mumbles of incoherently).......

More anomalies keeps coming up, I thought I might quickly toss in an explanation as to why that is, though I suppose the Devs have already figured this out.

Anomalies can roughly be equated to the 'goody hut' from Civilisation, after all they contain techs, money, experience ect. The key difference here however is that while any Civ unit can pop a goody hut only the flagship can survey anomalies. Sure you can get survey modules by doing additional research but that tech takes quite a long time in the early game (and you still have to build ships to carry them), to say nothing of the futility of building the Galactic Guidebook.

Essentially there is a, albeit short, series of upgrades that allow one to partake in the 'anomaly race'. Where things fall down is that by the time those upgrades are taken the race is over and the looser is whoever took the time to grab the extra techs/projects. Setting the number of starting anomalies higher won't prolong the race by any measurable amount, it'll just increase the benefits each race garners.

In order to make the Guidebook and its fellows more practical anomolies need to come and go. With multiple waves of anomalies you'd see players equiping survey modules on every ship even in the late game. Multiple wave anomalies could even introduce 'surveying' as a game strategy in the same way that 'maximum growth' or 'steady build up' are now.

Giving the new waves thematic concepts would be great too I think, as per Tetleytea's suggestion for the discovery of a starship graveyard.

Sure, why not?

It would be nice to have a window to decide what events can happen. For example, if I don't like the Pirates event, I can disable that event from eer occuring. However, the events that I don't disable might not come in anyway....but that doesn't mean they can't!

This wouldn't apply to initially playing a custom race, but how about this mega event: a mad scientist figures out a way to transpose the personalities of you (the player) with the leader of an opposing empire. All of a sudden, you have to play as one of the AI's empires, and the AI in turn picks up where you left off with your own empire.

idea idea
less of a mega event but yeah get this what if this event is trigger able when lets see when ever a conqured home worlds moral drops below 35% there is a small chance that race will rebel and start anew with half of your techs mostly war techs and all the ships in orbit and half of the improvements giveing them a small hope at become a power again




another idea is this one of you scientists has a break through and notices some thing no one else could *need creativeity but has a 1 in 100000 chance of happening when you research your first tech allows you to research a new tech tree it could be a millitary tech tree or my favorite a industry and research tech tree

i have idea how about a genetic mutation at gives a 50/50 chance at increase in point or decreas in points. That way a player might have to get rid of an ability or weaken it or better yet more points to spend.

Space Currents:
Due to unusual star emisions, several 'currents' in space appear. All ships traveling along the current get a huge speed bonous for as long as they are in the current.

Old weapons:
Inspired by "Beserker", robotic ships from a distant galaxy have arived in ours. They seek to eliminate all life, atacking ships indriscimintlay. If they find an un-defended planet (or destroy a planets defenders) they can sterilize it, destroying all people on it, all improvements, and rendering it uninhabitable.

How about a take-off on the "5 pc per week" event. but nnot as devestating. Like an area that bisects the galaxy at a random location where all ships move at reduced speed, instead of the entire galaxy. This could bith help and hinder the p[layers, depending on where this thing lands.

Alternatively, you gan have a band, 1 pc wide bisect the galaxy where all ships must end their turn before crossing. So if you have 3 moves left you still must stop at this band, but on your next turn you can cross and continue as usual. Kinda like when a tank reaches a river in the game Allied General.

Whew. Just read through this whole post and the breadth of content and ideas is astonishing.

Kudos to Aircool and Lord Null -- thought their ideas were especially awesome.

Fans of ideas like the Tree of Life, a ship captain / fleet going rogue and disrupting relations, the mad scientist who invents a major race's subspecies, ExtremeDanger's Faith
Conversion, the double agents, the galactic Mad Cow idea, the giant space creatures, and the galactic network worm that infects research buildings (I had the same idea!).

Got a few ideas of mine own. Some disclaimers: I have imperfect knowledge of how every aspect of this impressive game works, and am such a lurker I might be posting ideas that have come up before. Apologies for anything moronic.

MEGA
- Scientific Calamity -- a groggy scientist screws up with the particle accelerator and his entire research building explodes, filling a research building tile with a graphic of a volcano / earthquake fissure / radioactive cloud. Could change the tile from usable to terraform-able so you can recover it later in the game. If we're feeling nasty, maybe it takes up multiple tiles (any square configuration) but that might make it destroy 1 per galaxy improvements, which would be a bummer. But I guess that's the point -- it's a mega event. Gotta deal, right?

- Uplift -- any given race suddenly has a breakthrough in genetic engineering and has the power to "uplift" (a la David Brin) certain other native species. Could open up a new Gengineering branch on the tech tree at two levels, the first of which allows for a population rate bonus but with hampered "population quality" that gets brought up to 100% after the second tier is researched. Thinking of this like the extreme colonization mechanic . . . and in fact, in might not need to be a Mega event at all, but just something else for us to focus our precious early-game research weeks on! (Also -- someone should REALLY do an Uplift Universe mod for GC2).

- Virtual Reality Disaster -- an alien agent slips a program into another civ's Virtual Reality Center(s) that overloads their brain / leaves it impossible for them to leave the, er, Matrix. The result? 5% of the pop on the affected planet(s) dies, and all virtual reality centers are downgraded back down to the previous tech level as the civilization refuses to go anywhere near the things. A corollary might be that the suffering civ gets a boost to its spy production rate as more civilians are willing to enlist in fighting a shadow war. The Virtual Reality Module trade good cannot be trader to this civilization.

- Gift from On High -- an amateur astronomer on one of your worlds notices that a pulsar deep in a neighboring galaxy has actually been blinking out a message over the past several centuries. After a long all-nighter in the archives he determines the pulsar's actually been blinking out the plans for a tech in binary -- you gain the new tech, but not before he proudly posted the results of his finding on his blog. All civilizations gain this tech (could be random; could be thematically appropriate, like Ultra Life Support).

- Going Green -- a massive eco-friendly movement is sweeping the galaxy -- citizens of all races are clamoring for more environmentally responsible goods, and the changeover in R&D and manufacturing drop social output 20% one year, and 10% the next. After the 2 year period is over, all planets receive a +2 planet quality. Could also just happen to one civilization, but maybe that would only happen on certain planets so the civ wouldn't be crippled.

- Think someone mentioned your little AI bot guy doing something . . . along those lines, just for humor, what if your AI bot takes five random techs and defects to the Yor? Or better yet, replaces the Yor leader on the diplomat screen?

OTHERS
- Love the idea of a Hero unit that affects nearby ships -- and maybe planet quality, if the hero ship is docked there. Could try doing it like Espionage, giving a civ the opportunity to raise heroes . . . or make it an emergent property of #/enemy ships destroyed.

- Mining Anomaly -- after mining stations have been upgraded a certain amount they can also turn up Precursor vessels or the general early-game anomalies -- provides some extra incentive to upgrade Space Mining.

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I definitely like any ideas that require a non-standard addition to the tech tree in order to compensate.

Thinking of these ideas is more fun than working. Maybe I'll post more tomorrow. Thanks for the great game Frogboy/et. al. -- has the most replay value of any game I've ever owned. Looking forward to playing v1.6!

One idea I saw bounced around a while back was that survey ships could monitor planets or stars and use that information to help your race. This could lead to all sorts of new things going on; there could be some sort of event where survey ships can look at uninhabited planets and get bonuses from those planets. Conversely, if a survey ship monitors a habitable (but unclaimed) planet, it could slowly grow in potential, but can be claimed at any time.

How about:


1. An emergency UFP vote is called. All agree that the UFP needs a president. A vote for who the president is carried out by normal influence, with the condition that the top 3 most powerful civs can't be the President. The president then has the special power of deciding exactly what law is voted on at the next meeting, and can veto any law that wins by a small minority.
The President is president for the entire game, or until this event pops up again.

2. Tone down the Pirates event, by giving less ships overall, but the ships given come from actual civs, mainly. Give the pirates a secret homeworld that has to be discovered and conquered in order to end the pirate attacks and desertions.

3. Give the Dreadlords one fighter as an escort, to avoid them being nipped in the bud.

4. One alliance at random results in an actual merger of the two civs into one civ, getting all the techs and planets that each had after a month of planet inactivity (no production/research). The player always benefits from this if their civ is picked. Preferably this would be weighed so the alliance chosen should be the weakest one in the game.

Mega events:
Flood. Planet turns to aquatic and anything build to it is destroyed.

Nuclear accident. Planet turns to radioactive and anything build to it is destroyed.

Something that turns planet to Barren, like giant sandstorm

Massive meteor hit the planet and increase it's mass or some alien artefact does that. More mass->more gravity