Dark Avatar beta update

Ability points screwed up

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I encountered what I assume is a bug in the new update to the Dark Avatar beta. All the races seem to have had their racial abilities increased now, reducing the number of available ability points you have to spend from 10 to 5. The trouble is that this means you can no longer purchase some of the high end abilities such as magical planet quality which still requires 8 points, or master trade routes which requires 9 points. Hitting the reset button does nothing, since the points have been allocated as racial abilities, so there is no way to get back to the original 10 ability points you used to have before the update.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
+ CHANGE: Ability points available has been temporarily reduced from 10 to 5 (until we can balance this a little more)


from the changelog of the latest DA update.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I thought is was deliberate... wasn't liking it. It'll be nice when it is back to 10. Why not just make the amounts of points available in some kind of pre-game option menu (say 5, 10, 15, 20 with 15 and 20 causing such games to be illegal metaverse submissions)?
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I also thought this was a bug. Very difficult as the beta did not come with a changelog on download. It was also not easily findable in the forums either!!
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
>+ CHANGE: Ability points available has been temporarily reduced from 10 to 5 (until we >can balance this a little more)

Bad idea; nuf said.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yeah i was not sure what was wrong at first. Well now i know.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Bad idea; nuf said.

Uh what? Didn't you notice where it said it was temporary?
It's a beta. These are the kinds of stuff that you will have to live with beta-testing.
If you can't, wait for the official release.

Kryo, or anyone else at Stardock: Wouldn't it be smarter to sticky all change-logs so that people see them?
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Thank you for stating the blatantly obvious. My point was that if they temporarily lowered the available ability points, they should have ALSO temporarily lowered the point costs on the abilities to match, so that they could still be used.
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Thank you for stating the blatantly obvious. My point was that if they temporarily lowered the available ability points, they should have ALSO temporarily lowered the point costs on the abilities to match, so that they could still be used.


They lowered the number of points because a race's innate ability bonuses STACK with the ones you pick with your ability points.