Going into serious debt, then dropping to only -2kBC.

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Is this intended? I think it should be changed. For example, I can buy an expensive wonder with 1BC to my name, and go seriously into debt, say -30kBC. The next turn, no matter how deep in debt you are, it reverts back to -2kBC debt. To me, that's an exploit. How bout yall?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yea, big problem. I upgraded a fleet of 24 medium ships, cost me about 100k, only had to pay 2k....
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Ooh, I never thought about doing that. Yes, this seriously needs a changing Perhaps not allowing you to go into more than 2k debt would be a start? Only allow pay/month payments on very expensive things you can't afford?
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Why you guys have to tell me this!!!!!! =P
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
This can be exploited big time. For example, if you are in the green on cash, you can buy any Galactic Wonder immediately and not go into the crippling debt that it'd actually cost. As a test of this theory I bought one that would have sent me to -28000 cr.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yea and theoretically, you could pump out a bunch of empty hulls at all your towns, then upgrade them all (even if it was 100-200) to something that would cost 200-300k to upgrade, and only have to pay 2k. Hopefully this is adressed, but how do we let the devs know?
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Brad knows about this. It's been posted before. I believe the response at the time was it was intentional to prevent newbies from bankrupting themselves. No idea whether he intends to change it.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Hrm, well they could either simply not allow you to rush build things you can't afford or simply remove the -2k thingy on difficulties above 'normal'
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I wonder if the developers will point too the file that governs this little bit of non-real reality so that people that want too fix it right away can set the value lower (i.e. -1,000,000 in debt)... I mean most of the files are modable anyway right? (hint hint )
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
LOL. Have you so little control of yourself that you have to fix it to stop from abusing it.

IIRC Brad has said that they intend to remove the -2k limit on the harder difficulty levels.