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Influence bubble

March 2, 2006 9:50:49 AM from GalCiv II ForumsGalCiv II Forums
I just played a though influence war with the Arcaean. (BTW, what does mean the WHITE borders?), and even thou I built a LOT (4)of maxed influence starbase near their border, they just seemed un-assimilable. Their influence graph showed that they had a HUGE peak (almost vertical)

But, suddenly, their influenced dropped about for half of its past value, and I got about 1/3 of their empire in my cultural sphere, and about half of them on the border or revolution...

what happened? how can their gain/loose so much influence so quickly?
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Jeysie
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Reply #1 March 2, 2006 10:57:37 AM
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Hmm. Does the AI have "events" the same as the player? If so, maybe the Arceans had one of the influence-affecting events?

Peace & Luv, Liz
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Reply #2 March 2, 2006 11:34:42 AM
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The white borders are probably when you have a ship selected, am I right? That's your ship's life support range.
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Reply #3 March 2, 2006 11:45:21 AM
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I am having the same problem. I can't seem to flip any of their colonies even with a maxed out influence starbase. They are inside my sphere of influence. Do they have a racial ability that makes flipping them next to impossible? Otherwise, I think I am going to have to obliterate them by force to obtain a cultural victory.

And, that white bubble is for a starbase, not a ship. Therefore the life support range isn't applicable. I haven't tried it in other colors. Maybe it is just the color that occurs when yellow and blue are mixed (i am terrans).
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Reply #4 March 2, 2006 11:46:58 AM
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Influence starbase should be build near the planets you want not on the border. If you select the starbase you see it's area of effect. If there aren't any planets in it's area of effect it's pretty useless.
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Reply #5 March 2, 2006 11:53:50 AM
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This was a bug in Gal Civ 1 as well. When you load a save game, all influence that you gained from the previous game is lost, so you start from scratch. My guess is that is what happened with them, and since you had more influence starbases, you won the battle. I was hoping that they would fix that for this game. I hated bartering for influence just to lose it when i had to quit the game...
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Reply #6 March 2, 2006 2:28:08 PM
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No, I never loaded the game for the duration of the cultural war..

And for the white border, it happened often for me. Instead of the regular blue/yellow (or red/blue, or anything) border clash, the two colors meld together and becomes white...

Is it something special?

(and yhea, maybe an influence event they had.. lol)
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Reply #7 March 4, 2006 9:19:45 AM
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The white border is the result of something weird going on in the algorithm that draws the influence boarders. If you look closely, you will find someplace in your empire where the border LOOPS back on itself, effectively inverting it. then it overlaps with the enemy borders, it mixes the colors.

Rob

Edit for bad spelling and typos.. I should proofread eh?
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Reply #8 March 4, 2006 2:38:38 PM
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Well, there was, actually, a place that definetly looked WEIRD. Smashed between the Drengin and the Arcaean borders, there was around 4-5 parsec in a line that I owned, but the borders.. oh my, it looked like a fallen rope! all twisted and chaotic.
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Reply #9 March 9, 2006 7:32:12 PM
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I'm a little confused about influence starbases. If I put an influence base near one of my planets, does it boost up that planet's influence, or does it only affect enemy planets?
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