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stardock give up on planet city lights?

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stardock give up on planet city lights?

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a while back one of the features advertised for this game was that planets would have lights show up on the dark side of colonized planets showing the high population and developed nature of the colony. Now I have never seen this happen in any of my games. Sure I have seen it on a random uncolonized planet once in a while but never on any of my planets or any of the other races planets that have been developed. They all should have had them, but they didn't.

I figured it was a bug so I made a post about it. Sure enough, other people were expressing the same things. Apart from a random occurrence the advertised planet city lights were not working as intended. This was never acknowledged as a bug by stardock who , aside from a dismissive comment to me, largely ignored this.

There have been a number of patches and updates since my post and not one of them has adressed this bug. With 1.3 coming out and attention being diverted to the expansion, I feel this is my last chance to bring attention to this. I know its not a major bug, but it was something that was advertised to be in the game and i just want to have the full game experience. Besides, there have been tons of other cosmetic fixes and additions requested by the community that stardock has done, yet nothing done about this.

So I ask why? Why is this particular problem not being looked at and fixed?
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Reply #26 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Yes, I am aware of the cheater flags, and so far I have not been given evidence that those cheater flags are caused by a bug.

Reply #27 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
so what does cause the cheating flag to appear?
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Reply #28 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

The ones that started showing up in 1.3 are probably caused by people using raceconfig files that have invalid bonuses.

Reply #29 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
so if I got all the Galciv II folder clear of mods I'll be able to play without worry of the Cheating Flag?
Reply #30 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
If you have not modified any of the installed files, and if you have not edited the raceconfig files in the My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2 folder, you'll probably be fine.  If you want to be safe, you can delete the raceconfig files from the My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2 and reconfigure them in game.
Reply #31 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Thank you that is good to know!!
Reply #32 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I didn't know what people were talking about with respect to the planet city lights until I looked REALLY close on some planets. I can see that there are lights on the side that faces away from the star. What confused me is that the "dark side" of each planet is not dark. If you add the realistic effect of city lights, shouldn't the side of the planet that faces away from its star be dark (except for the lights of course)? I'm sorry if this was already discussed before, but I've been away from the forums for some time.
Reply #33 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
What confused me is that the "dark side" of each planet is not dark


That's what the Ambient Light slider is for in the options
Reply #34 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Kryo, you are so right. I turned Ambient Light down to 5 and all the planets look really good now. I had no idea what that setting was used for until now, and I don't know why mine was set to 50. No wonder I couldn't see that lighting effect!
Reply #35 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I don't know why mine was set to 50


Particularly since the default is 25