Aright is this a bug or what?

AI Cheating on cakewalk???

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Ok I'm playing my first game on cakewalk and finally decide after so many 100 years to attack one of the AI opponents to see what combat is like. Well the first thing I noticed is I had 2 transports in the group of ships, but, it only landed one of them, 500 troops. lol vs 16,784 of the Terran troups. (how'd they get so many troups or were these just citizens?) Anyways I take the bottom choice of dropping propaganda and get a little over 2500 of the Terrans to join my side. So here we are 3000 vs nearly 14,000, well my troups just destroyed them and I didn't hardly lose anything. Had a 27 to 2 odds combat value.

Now here is where the issue came up that puzzles me, when I took over the planet EARTH they had 489636.00 billion population and 36472 bc income!!!!!! And a 69% approval rating on this planet with only ONE level 1 morale booster. Not to mention they just had a stinking XENO FARM for population increase. There's no way in hell they should have 489636.00 billion people and them be 69% happy with 1 piddly level 1 morale booster.

Oh and my own overall approval went to 1% !!!! And dropping taxes down to nothing didn't change it either.

Now, I'm not sure what I did, but, I had that other transport ship in there and when I launched it and took some people off the planet then everything "reset" on the planet. The population went down to 0.8 billion (what a rip) lol The income went to squat to represent the basic market places the AI had built (2). (another rip I wanted that 36472 bc per turn!!!)

Basically everything went back to what I guess it should be except for the population loss, down to 0.8 and I didn't even use any planet destroying weapons?

Gotta be some bug eh?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Your population fights as soldiers. So if you have 10 billion people defending a planet, that translates to 10,000 soldiers. Likewise, a transport holding 5000 soldiers really has 5 billion potential settlers on it.

When you invade, you must kill off all of their soldiers/population, and whatever you have left from your army afterwards becomes your new planet pop. So in your case, the 0.8 population that you had in the end means that only 800 of your soldiers survived.

As for the insanely high numbers you got after invasion, those are some kind of glitch. Population is capped at 100 billion per planet, and as I mentioned before, none of the original pop survives a successful invasion.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It's a bug that happens when you use the "propaganda" invasion option and lose more soldiers than you had on your own originally. Definitely no AI cheat.

A typical number overflow (or more exactly underflow in this case) I guess.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Well that makes more sense of why it happened then, since it only landed 500 of my troups instead of the 1000 I brought. See, I had no idea how many to bring, I just wanted to see the land combat portion of the game. And I didn't know the entire population of the enemy planet had to be defeated. So the 16,784 sounds reasonable for them to have since I went back and noticed that they had a 300% modifier on that tile that the xeno farm was on. Good thing I got those 2500 to join me. lol I woulda lost that battle huh? haha

Question do troop transports have to be in the same "fleet" with one another to attack as a group even though I took in like 8 fleets of two ships each? I had each troup transport protected with one combat ship. Like I said I really didn't know what was going to happen or what I was doing. lol

I have noticed that the AI even on cakewalk is teching for weapons vs my armor. I have no point defense armor and that's what the AI is teching in for weapons. lol But, I have a conglomeration of different weapon types and ships of all types so there's no armor they can have I can't penetrate. Unless of course this is like if I have a weapon atk of 1 and they have a armor vs that weapon of 2 does that nullify any damage whatsoever?