Overpowered Precursor Event?

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Recently in a Large - Normal game a precursor event happened about year 9 or 10. The event made every planet within two sectors 13 rating. Every planet. Even ones that before were not inhabitable. By pushing out colony ships I quickly colonized almost 30 planets increasing my population for about 50b to about 220b (something like that). It also took the computer till the next year to realize there were new planets to colonize which by then I had scooped up most of them. Comments?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
True the AI doesnt realize the planets are there, probably a bug. Took the drenign in my last game like 2 years to colonize one of the new planets, just one! And they had the planets all to themselves in the corner of the galaxy :/
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
They do realise they are there, they just dont react quickly enough. It's kind of like that they have left the colonisation mode and just can't flip back to it. Perhaps they've obsoleted all their colony ship designs and spend the next year trying to design a cool looking one!!

I've noticed this happening with resources too. At the beginning of the game, the AI is quick to grab resources.... but if an AI surrenders or is destroyed and all his resources are freed up - the remaining civs never seem to send constructors to pick them up.

This is something I expect Stardock will look into at some point. At present, if I get that event, I just reload it to the last autosave.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Odd - the last game I played I was really annoyed since the AI would grab any resources I opened up (via killing starbases) before I could get to them... I'll have to watch that behavior a lot more closely in my next game.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I think it depends on the race (kind of AI) and game situation as on the difficulty level. In one of my games on painful the Drengin got that event. It took them also quite some time to colonize a couple - they had heavy war action going tho. The Altarian and Arcean reacted much quicker... sent lots of ships immediately to get some of the new planets which the Drengin culture flipped in the long run.

Maybe the Drengin AI was planning to do so... why build colony ships and improvements if the other AIs do it for you
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
that or the dregarian like concoring better than colonizeing wouldnt put it past them
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
[I've noticed this happening with resources too. At the beginning of the game, the AI is quick to grab resources.... but if an AI surrenders or is destroyed and all his resources are freed up - the remaining civs never seem to send constructors to pick them up.]

Don't know what copy of the game you're playing, but, the damn AI races QUICKLY came over and started stealing newly opened up resources when the Iconians were put out of the game. I had my eye on this nice MORALE resource too that I needed badly and the damn Drengin got it.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Well, i was at war with the Yor, i was accually winning and they got a Ranger ship and well, i was not that advanced to beat it and my vast 50+ ships were wiped out by that one ship and i know that in reality 50+ ships would slaughter 1 ship no matter the superior technology, but its a game after all.

So i know, if an AI gets a Ranger ship, i either ally with them or restart the game..
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
This event is VERY unbalancing...
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yeah this happened to me. It occured in Korx space which I was influencing at the time, and it was class 9 instead of class 13. I went from about 25 colonies to 84, using Colony Ships that moved 25 parsecs/turn. The Korx only managed to grab maybe 3-4 planets. I was already winning beforehand, but I shudder to think what would have happened had the Korx been able to capitalize on the event properly. (They were at war with Altaria at the same time of the occurance.)

Of course, later another event made the Drath spread virally all over my interior (in one turn) and destroy a good majority of my (unguarded) infrastructure in the war that it triggered. So it sort of balanced out... sort of.
Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Don't know what copy of the game you're playing, but, the damn AI races QUICKLY came over and started stealing newly opened up resources when the Iconians were put out of the game. I had my eye on this nice MORALE resource too that I needed badly and the damn Drengin got it.


Quickly is a very relative term. Do you mean "next turn"? I had a situation where the Altarians surrendered on a gigantic galaxy pretty much as far away as possible from me. I managed to get all their freed resources.... the AI didnt seem to send out a ship. This was on tough most recent patch. It probably took me something like 20 turns to grab all those resources.