Planetary Buildings

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Is there a way to build a lower class building than your highest researched level?

It is kind of annoying when late-game I keep taking over enemy planets that have NO Manufacturing centers on them and it is going to take some 300+ turns or 8000 credits to get one rolling. Is there ANY way to make the game build a first-gen factory and then upgrade it rather than building a latest-gen building?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Is there a way to build a lower class building than your highest researched level?


No, there is not.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Is there a way to build a lower class building than your highest researched level?


If you don't mind having to upgrade manually, you can modify the PlanetImprovements.xml file and remove the value within the "S_UpgradeTarget" tag.
Doing this will allow you to keep building the older improvements as well, but does not autoupgrade.

Hope this helps.
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Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Hmm, well perhaps this could be an option for one of the upcoming versions heh. Most every other game of this type has a button that says "show only latest" that you can toggle on and off. Seems that it would be a much better solution that having to go change xml files.

Of course, I guess most times by the time the game reaches this point it is all but over. Still, it is rather frustrating.

Thanks for the input though.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
show only latest button would be very cool
pro that (btw i never had the need to build a normal factory later ... normally i have plenty of money and the planets i take have some factories)
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I actually find that quite often late game most planets I take over are almost completely filled with Influence stuff... and at least 50% have no factories at all heh. Of course, perhaps that is because I am only playing Tough level... maybe harder AI does not kill their infrustructure like that.