War at first meeting

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This has happened three times now and is rather odd. Playing as Humans with the Altarians, Korx, Drengi, and Arcerans. The 2nd or 3rd race I initially encounter immediately states that a state of war exists between us and while some quick trading will usually bring a peace treaty, it doesn't always work.  Took over two years to reach a peace treaty on one occasion.

The next issue regards the purple suns that usually have a high PQ planet as part of its solar system. In every game to date the purple solar system does not have a high PQ planet when it is within 5 squares of my homeworld, yet all of the other purple solar systems still have a high PQ planet when they are beyond 5 squares from my homeworld.

Final glitch consists of custom ships that disappear after about two years...the ships are still available and exploring, attacking, defending etc. but they are no longer veiwable on the main screen. Oddly enough this also seems to cause a black hole glitch, in that if an invisible custom ship path goes through a black hole it jumps just like it was a survey ship. The black hole also travels with the ship and reappears where the ship does. It does not follow the ship any more but is rather interesting when it drops your small fighter into enemy space and you have not explored that area. 

These all happened post release and a clean download. All of my games have been played on an immense map with everything set to random except number of habitable planets which is set to common.  All events are on except Assencion Victory. Number of races is 4 with all having random intellegence.

Sorry no screen shots available but this is a carry over from pre-release reports I made.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
1) When did you meet the other races? In an immense galaxy a lot can happen before you ever meet the AI.

2) Sun colour has no relation to the quality of the associated planets, except that yellow suns might have a higher chance of having habitable / better quality planets.
Recently I have seen others mention that the amount of decent quality planets is lower close to their home planet and I have always experienced the same. At first sight it looks like this is part of the design, perhaps to make the colony rush even tougher for the player?

For the other points, you mention this is a carry over from pre-release reports; did you uninstall any betas before installing TA in its current version?
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
In all but one case I met all the other races in the first year, the one case where I didn't I still got the at war from one of the other three.

The Purple suns have, in all of the DL games I played and all of the TA betas, had a PQ18 or better planet in the system regardless of where the purple sun was located. The standard yellow suns seem to have the normal placement of planets with some worth more than others regardless of their location.

I reported the disappearing ships back in Jan or Feb, and the next beta seemed to fix the problem. The black hole showed up in Feb or Mar and was also corrected. That they seem to have combined is interesting and something I can live with but it is a Glitch. As the betas came out I simply downloaded them and did not delete any of them, nor did I delete anything when I downloaded the final version.

Hope this helps.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
As the betas came out I simply downloaded them and did not delete any of them, nor did I delete anything when I downloaded the final version.
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You really should, though. Installing the release over the Beta is just asking for strange glitches and bugs. ;)
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The Purple suns have, in all of the DL games I played and all of the TA betas, had a PQ18 or better planet in the system regardless of where the purple sun was located. The standard yellow suns seem to have the normal placement of planets with some worth more than others regardless of their location.
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I can't speak with definition, but I have seen a lot of Purple Sun's with no Planets above PQ0 in a lot of my games. And certainly I have seen a lot of Purple suns without a PQ18 +. I go whole games never seeing that.

Perhaps one of the DEVS will chime in, but I think you may have just gotten lucky with the random placement of high PQ planets around purple suns.