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M-m-m-onster fleet of Rangers

April 30, 2006 3:55:39 PM from GalCiv II ForumsGalCiv II Forums
In my current game there seemed to be some random event that caused the korx to suddenly have three times as much military rating than any body else together! then i saw what caused this...he got of fleet of rangers! the ships had normal names like the ones he can build but their class was named as ranger(btw some ship names were from tiny and some from small hulls). he got 5 of them in one fleet -> 150 attack and 100 defense rating and over 300 hitpoints while my best medium ship got 8 in attack and 4 in defense rating.
I know there is an event that gives you a ranger class ship....but not 5 at a time with strange ship names?! and the ki never renames his ships either as far as i know. maybe there was a bug that turned all ships in one of his fleets into rangers... Game version: 1.1
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Reply #1 April 30, 2006 4:10:45 PM
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Now thats even more strange...i just loaded the game and know what? the fleet got reduced to one ranger , probably cause the logistics of the korx only allowed one per fleet
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Reply #2 April 30, 2006 5:14:51 PM
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I'm still astounded by people posting about the rangers. I've been playing the game for a month and have never seen one of these things. Is there some checkbox i need to hit or something? Am I the only who never gets that random event (I've also never gotten the I-League). Is it more likely on Masochist or suicidal difficulties?

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Reply #3 April 30, 2006 5:35:58 PM
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I think I-Legue is like [race name], a place holder, because i got a the Fundementalists once which were a group of planets who simply declared independence. Also, it could be that rangers apear less on higher dificulties maybe? Because when i played cakewalk-easy, i got a ranger event very often, from tough and up i never got any.
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Reply #4 April 30, 2006 5:41:03 PM
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It was on tough and the rangers didnt dispeared from the game when reloading...they were returned to their home planets (or something like).

btw i got a ranger only once and it was on beginner or something alike. as far as i remeber there has always been a meesage if somone found one. but there was no message when his ships got upgraded(?) to rangers. perhaps by some bug he could upgrade them to rangers
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Reply #5 April 30, 2006 5:51:18 PM
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I'm beginning to wonder... If I do see a ranger (singular not plural) another race gets it.
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Reply #6 April 30, 2006 6:07:30 PM
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When I see a ranger I buy it as it will cost me more to try and kill it. lol
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Reply #7 April 30, 2006 8:38:19 PM
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Rangers aren't all that useful anyway. The weapons are ok, but the armor stinks. Plus it doesn't have any extra engines, so it moves at the base speed of whoever owns it. Even with hyperwarp researched, it's only going to move at 4 per turn. Or 5 if that race has gravity accelerators.
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Reply #8 April 30, 2006 8:54:17 PM
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Actually, the truly scary thing is that they're only "light" cruisers. Imagine one of their battleships.
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Reply #9 April 30, 2006 11:57:06 PM
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I've found Rangers in every game I've ever played, except for my most recent one. Heck, I once got the Ranger event on two consecutive turns.

They are slow as Christmas, and they only have armor (no shields or point defense), but with their monstrous attack values and hit points, I've never lost one in combat yet (and after a few successful Ranger-vs.-Enemy Fleet battles, their hit point totals really get obscene.

If I had to guess about why you haven't had the Ranger event triggered for you yet, I'd guess that you don't have much of a "Luck" attribute for the races you play: The description screen when you find a Ranger Class starship describes the discovery as "a stroke of luck," and the Rangers themselves are all named "Lucky Ranger." Call me paranoid, but things like that make me believe that the "Luck" attribute may somehow be involved.
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Reply #10 May 2, 2006 11:18:31 AM
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I'm still astounded by people posting about the rangers. I've been playing the game for a month and have never seen one of these things. Is there some checkbox i need to hit or something? Am I the only who never gets that random event (I've also never gotten the I-League). Is it more likely on Masochist or suicidal difficulties?

My first game on beginner I got this event, that pretty much ended the game though as I walked over anyone in my path with it.

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Reply #11 May 2, 2006 11:52:30 AM
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There was a glitch in one of the betas that would allow you to build Rangers. Are you upgraded to 1.1? Was the game started during a beta?
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