Possible bug - Approval Plummet

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Okay, I began play as a custom race, with lots of technology and research bonuses, trying to get a step ahead of the competition. I spent considerable time colonizing as many planets as I could on a gigantic map, stil to see the Terrans with more than 75% of the galaxy under their blue borders.

About 2 hours into it, after I have spent a lot of time creating economic starbases around my planets, and some planets, too. I had one Class 26 planet. My approval plummeted from about 60% to 1%. My production, taxes, and everything didn't change, and I made a few adjustments. There were no influence starbases near me that I could find, but I had not researched beyond the Imperial form of government.

I went a few turns trying various things to bring up my approval, then half of my empire defects to form a new empire, and I start really llooking at my approval.

Just about every planet has dropped in population, the stats look fine, except for "native ability" which is
-212335656835097518% or so. Believe me when I say I made that number up. But it is not far from what actually appeared on my screen. It started with a 2 and had about 10 digits following it. Nothing I did changed it. I had to start all over.

That was frustrating. If it was a bug, that's one thing. But if it was something I did, please tell me.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Can you provide a save?

What is the "native ability" you speak of.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I've noticed in my short time of gameplay that approval rating does seem to constantly drop. But then again I've only played a couple of hours.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
sounds like a bug. If you have a save send it to stardock. So what random event was it ?? That may shed some light too
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Whoops....

Already started a new game and saved over it. TO tell you the truth, I have no idea what "native ability" is either, but it sure did set me up. My very first game, I played as the Terran Aliiance in a sandbox game. I had a rebellion then too, but my approval rating shot up after it, mainly because all the disaffected planets were gone. I then proceeded to stomp them into the ground.

This time, nothing helped. My approvqal stayed at 1% and I could not make any money or produce any ships to retake those planets, or buy improvements to possibly raise my rating. I just started over.

I looked up "native ability" and could find no info on it. Maybe I'm just not looking in the right place.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I have also spotted this bug. I can't recall the exact circumstances, but I got the huge - approval as a "native ability".
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
You can fix this, well at least I did, by building the next level of entertainment. I am betting that there is an algorithm that basically lets you know that if you don't keep up with the entertainment side well, fecal matter will slap the bulkhead so to speak.

Good luck and good hunting, at least till we meet.

W/R
Suralle Straykat
Kat Lord @ Large
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
That was the problem with that game and why I started over. I couldn't research anything or build anything. I had no money, no taxes were coming in, and research had dropped to zero. SOL, that was me.
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
heck, I mentioned something like that in the forums already, but I thought it was in direct correlation with a random event I picked a negative moral option to balance myself back into netrual, and, well, 70-ish percent to 1%

No, i don't have the save
Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I don't know how you would've encountered it, but it sounds like the variable that stored your innate racial morale bonus "rolled over". That is, some bug somewhere jacked it up so high that it got bigger than the programming language variable could store, and the value wrapped around into negative numbers.

It's one of those things that, under normal circumstances, shouldn't happen ever.
Reply #11 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I've had this same thing happen to me. It was really too bad; just about the best game I've ever had.