Bug with Thalan Tech Tree/Custom Race

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Last night I created a custom race using the thalan tech tree.   Then, I started a game on the immense map with 9 opponents, one of whom happened to be the Thalans...


Then, at the first dialog screen, before I even click on OK a notice popped up saying that the Thalans had built the Hyperion Matrix, and that no other could be built.

I immediatly cursed and made a new game without Thalans.   I'm not at home, so I can't try to reproduce this, yet...

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
That is typical of the Thalans to finish one of their wonders the first turn (which takes place during YOUR first turn before you hit turn).
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I have been noticing a related issue. I would love to have random races wit the option not to have both a race and a modification of the race at the same time or at least not have to compete with the race you just modified from.

Scincerely,

Scintor
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yea. I figured it was something like that. This, however, took place before I even hit the OK of the "The puny humans have given us hyperdrive. We'll use it to abduct their sheep and probe their rednecks" line.

I didn't get an opportunity to rush buy it. Somehow, being deprived of an *essential*, 'only one can be built' wonder before you even get to make a move strikes me as being... I dunno... somehow flawed?
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Heh, I wouldn't mind competing with them, just so long as we could both have a hyperion matrix, or whatever.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I would agree there. Make those buildings Super Projects and the tech requiring them be untradable/unstealable. That would stop the entire galaxy from having the buildings, yet allow the races with those tech trees to build their essential buildings.

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Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yeah, I just ran into this issue as well. INTENSELY frustrating.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
This could potentially be fixed by making all these Racial-starting 'Galactic-Achievements' be Super Projects. Of course, there is a side-effect there that it becomes potentially possible to build and own more than one of these buildings if you lose the planet they are built on and later recapture it...

I'm not sure if it is possible, but that could be avoided by making them Destructible Super Projects. Then, when you lose the planet, the buildings get destroyed, like other race-unique buildings. Of course, that doesn't stop a Thalan player from getting another set of these buildings if there happens to be a AI player with the Thalan tech tree... but, that's a different problem.

Another option might be a "Racial Achievement" class of buildings, which a number of can exist in the galaxy, but only 1 per Race that can build it.