AI vs. AI

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The quote below was taken from an old post of Cari Begle, the lead developer of GalCiv II, in the dev. journals on 2004/11/19:

One of the cheat keys was the one that made the AI not let the human player take turns, and keep playing after they'd wiped the human race out. This one is going to be crucial to our early testing so that we can see the AI working. It's like fastforwarding through a movie.
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Which cheat code is this? It would be cool to watch the AI play itself!!!

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Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
i'd like to see this, too
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
What I'd like is to be able to surrender to someone and see how that actually affects the outcome. If the Drengin initiated a 4-way cluster-frak of me, I'd like to be able to surrender to the Arceans and watch them use my worlds to walk all over the Drengin.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
That would totally own!
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
That'd be really nice to see. I mean c'mon, you would still have some of your "Loyal" Followers around somewhere wont you? and maybe you could have a clone of yourself, and know whats going on, lol.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
check the wiki (https://www.galciv.wikia.com/wiki/Cheats_and_keyboard_shortcuts) - I believe it's cheat 'Z' - although the description is slightly contradictory...
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check the wiki Cheats and keyboard shortcuts - I believe it's cheat 'Z' - although the description is slightly contradictory...
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No, this cheat code was described in the dev. journals as allowing a human to take over from one of the AIs, thus allowing a hot-seat multi-player game.

Would someone from Stardock please reply back with the answer?

Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It is Ctrl-Z.
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It would be interesting to see which AI does better after 100 randomly generated games.
Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I would like to be able to set up an AI only game, and have it running on one of my PCs. It would be far more entertaining than any "reality" TV shows.
Reply #11 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

It is Ctrl-Z.
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... and Ctrl-Shift-Z is the code for a human to take over from one of the AIs, thus allowing a hot-seat multi-player game.

Someone confirm and add Ctrl-Z to the Wiki Link

Reply #12 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Ok, I have this running in a window right now. I surrendered to the Altarians, then hit CTRL Z and then TURN. Now Earth belongs to the Altarians and the game is playing on its own. This is pretty cool.
Reply #13 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Ok, my bad. It seems like I took over the Altarians? This is ....... odd....

All the planets have the Altarian's logo, but they say Terran Alliance and I can manage their planets if I press CTRL Z to stop it from autoturning. And I have absolutely no influence zones......

I'm gonna play with this a bit and see WTF is going on.
Reply #14 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I see what happened. I had Altaria selected in order to speak to them, so the cheat code made their worlds mine. I started a new game, didn't select any planets and surrendered to them, hit CTRL Z and pressed turn, now Earth says it belongs to the Altarian Republic and all the AIs are moving around scouting and colonizing. I can't manage the Altarian worlds this time.
Reply #16 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I see what happened. I had Altaria selected in order to speak to them, so the cheat code made their worlds mine. I started a new game, didn't select any planets and surrendered to them, hit CTRL Z and pressed turn, now Earth says it belongs to the Altarian Republic and all the AIs are moving around scouting and colonizing. I can't manage the Altarian worlds this time.
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You do know that you don't actually HAVE to surrender to anyone in order to make this work? Destroy all of your ships and colonies, and then you will be gone w/o having to worry about surrendering. This helps when checking a game for balance, as you don't "contaminate" the experiment by giving your assets to some other race.

Reply #17 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting Mascrinthus, reply 11

It is Ctrl-Z.
... and Ctrl-Shift-Z is the code for a human to take over from one of the AIs, thus allowing a hot-seat multi-player game.

Someone confirm and add Ctrl-Z to the Wiki Link
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I added the Ctrl-Z to the Wiki page linked above.