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AI's Massive Precursor Ship Discovery!

Bug, or fluke?

June 20, 2006 12:03:25 AM from GalCiv II ForumsGalCiv II Forums
I was playing a game on the level below Normal difficulty. (Hey, I still am having a hard time getting better.) I had just taken over the Arceans homeworld, and was preparing to take over the secondary planet in the system, and at the end of my turn I get the message that they've discovered a Precursor Corvette (I think. Smallest one, right?) Big deal, right?



Boy was I in for a surprise. Suddenly there were 15+ fleets sitting next to that planet I was preparing to take over. I looked, and each one had 6 Precursor Corvettes in it. Granted, with the easier difficulty I was at, I was advanced enough to be protected enough from their 1 attack and 6hp each, but it was still such a shock.



Has anybody else experienced these massive discoveries before?



BTW, I absolutely HATE these goofy forums. Being forced to use HTML just to have proper line breaks.
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Reply #1 June 20, 2006 12:10:25 AM
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Hmm, I notice that editing has no effect whatsoever even when trying to add new info....
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Reply #2 June 20, 2006 12:15:44 AM
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I haven't encountere this myself... the large numbers of precursor ships or problems with the forums...
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Reply #3 June 20, 2006 12:29:05 AM
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I once got 67 percursor corvettes in a game.

Turned up just as the dregin attacked they hit those corvettes like a bug on a windsheild was a major game saver.
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Reply #4 June 20, 2006 12:50:21 AM
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Either it's the crappy IE browser I was forced to use to make the post, which wasn't properly refreshing the post, or the changes made in the edit truly didn't take effect for a few minutes. Basically I was just trying to insert the line breaks to make it readable.
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Reply #5 June 20, 2006 1:18:45 AM
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I have experienced a problem such as that with the Yor. However, it was in the 1.1 version. I caught the Yor in the act of UPGRADING their ships from a normal to a precursor ship. It was early on the game so from 0/0/1 to a 30 or so attack really gave them bragging rights. And not just one ship, nearly 15 of them.
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Reply #6 June 20, 2006 1:36:45 AM
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One time the oppisite happened to me. I got the message i had found some corvettes. Couldnt find them anywhere. Finding a ranger is awesome thogh
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Reply #7 June 20, 2006 6:06:18 AM
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played over several dozens of game sessions, and NEVER ever found one.... or pirates, for that matter...
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Reply #8 June 20, 2006 6:06:35 AM
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that is perfectly normal for a corvette find. just out of curiosity, what year did it happen? i understand you can't get lucky rangers til year 5 but don't know about the corvettes. i havent actually had a corvette find since 1.0x myself.
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Reply #9 June 20, 2006 9:31:21 AM
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Of all the games I've played, I've never found a ship myself either. I think it's because I've never used the Lucky trait at all.
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Reply #10 June 20, 2006 9:38:36 AM
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The most I've ever found in a game is 3 corvettes (number-wise) or 1 ranger (power-wise).
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Reply #11 June 20, 2006 11:49:35 AM
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I found 15 corvettes one time. boy did I scrap those suckers fast.

Duh
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Reply #12 June 20, 2006 12:04:51 PM
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I once played a game in which I found 8 Rangers, all on consecutive turns.
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Reply #13 June 20, 2006 12:30:54 PM
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I'm having a similar deal. Playing normal as a custom race with increased luck. I "found" 3 Rangers in the space of 8 turns
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Reply #14 June 20, 2006 2:52:02 PM
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played over several dozens of game sessions, and NEVER ever found one.... or pirates, for that matter...
The "Lucky" trait seems to really be the trigger for Corvette/Ranger discoveries. I haven't found one since I stopped taking Lucky. As for the pirates, that's a real shame. Their ships seem to scale to the most powerful in the galaxy, and they often make for very close battles. I've seen an entire galaxy at war come to a halt just to deal with some marauding pirates. The pirates also "liberated" some galactic resources that I happily scooped up
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Reply #15 June 24, 2006 12:05:59 PM
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yes its the luck trait that triggers the precusor ships. my current game is on a gigantic map and so far i have discovered 4 Lucky Rangers. what life savers they are as well. somehow all of my opponents seem to be able to out buld me, out manuver me, and out reserch me. Keeping in mind that the computer rarley builds more than one factory on any given planet, most have no factories, go figure
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Reply #16 June 24, 2006 2:52:48 PM
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Either it's the crappy IE browser I was forced to use to make the post, which wasn't properly refreshing the post, or the changes made in the edit truly didn't take effect for a few minutes. Basically I was just trying to insert the line breaks to make it readable.


Indeed, I had to do the same. No offense but the forum coding here is trully horrific. It took three browsers to even write a post, half the time pages won't load, it takes several clicks of the back button to actually go back as it loads the pages I can bring up multiple times, etc. I believe it is time StarDock invested in a professional board program like Invision or vBulletin.

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Reply #17 June 24, 2006 6:38:15 PM
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Yup, I just played a game and after 5 years after working hard to build up my fleet, one AI superpower is left and they're about as strong as me. Then suddenly they get all these precursor ships. I'm wondering if reloading would fix it but I didn't want to because of the reload bug (see the wiki).


Yes and the forum goes down all the time. I haven't been able to make threads for a whole ******* entire *** **** son of a ***** month!!!
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Reply #18 June 25, 2006 6:38:46 AM
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Happend to in 1.11 i think. one ai just got 5 ranges at a time in a single fleet. though it looked like he updraded some ships to rangers. also he had a bigger fleet then he could get with his logistics.

And yes, the forum seems to get crappier.
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Reply #19 June 25, 2006 10:37:17 AM
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It's not just the luck trait that triggers rangers/corvettes, I think it's also the difficulty level. I used to get them regularly when I first started playing, but haven't seen any at all since I've started playing at crippling or above. In fact, I've even dropped the luck trait from my race now because it now seems pretty pointless!
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