Oh and when all the stars and planets came from nowhere, there were also a few other rases like about 3 or 4 of them that tried to settle a planet; but I got them; but I had everythig set to normal and small uni, U think it was a glitch? Or maybe my XPS M1710 wth 2GB ram got too hot from playng over 3 days with only taking piss breaks, rofl, well I did get about 3 hours sleep after the first 48 stright:)

There is an event that can randomly raise the PQ of all uncolonized planets in an area. That is what you experienced.



Your troop ships were actually *in orbit* of the planet without having captured it? Are you sure they did not just build a defense ship, and you were then unable to invade further with unarmed transports?

The Cultural victory is when you have influence control of 75% or more of the map for ten turns and that victory condition enabled of course. The Cultural Conquest Tech is just the end of that Tech line.

I don't think the PQ was raised; because planets appeared where there were none before; because where there were for instance only 3 planets 2 more showed up and they as the 3 that were there all went up past 12's, and all 9 suns had 5 worlds each above 12's most 26's. There was no ships in orbit and it was kind of early in the game too less then 10 years on a tiny map, I only had 2 other civis enabled tarens and one other ; but then when I killed off all but the terans is when there were stars apearing in every quadrent with 5 planets each more 26's then not and there were NO zeros and none less then a 12. Before that one or 2 quadrents didn't have any sun at all. All the worlds just apearead from nowhere. I did find out that you can only have so many ships in orbit around the planet before it says it is full; because I had every planet like that and I was sending everything I could at the terans and with no ships in orbit it would not let me attack. I also sent support ships with big guns and nada I don't know why I could not attack them. Then it started happening with one of teh civis that showed up on a world and just showing up like that I don't see how they could have had anythng to stop me what will their just showing up one second and my attacking the next. In all it was a 20 year game and I still had to go for the techinal victory; because the tarens started attacking me and then so did the other civie that just jumped in. Let me know if you want to see the screen shot. Maybe I will post it on my site here

my sector was the only one with more then one sun; btw, I posted a web shot of before I colinized all the new worlds on my images here if you want to see it

After updateing the game (sucessfully this time) from 1.40 to 1.50 I went back into a saved game of the one where I could not attack the terrans and guess what? Yet I was able to not only attack them but win that game by millitary conquest. so I guess I was right in guessing tha that it wouldn't let me attack them when there was nothing in orbit