United Planets

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Can you get other civilizations to vote in your favour at united planets meetings?  and how do you do this?

thanks a lot.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

There's no direct way to get votes for UP meetings. They're pretty close to a random event.

Maybe there's a bit of effect from your influence rating or maybe your military rating, but mostly it seems very detached from the larger game (other than the results).

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

As i dont rely on trade income in my games i tend to leave the UP as soon as a stupid resolution comes up :)

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Out-of-the-box, there are few ways to influence how the other AIs vote.  It's dependent almost entirely on the value in the <HowWouldAIVote></HowWouldAIVote> tag, and the arrangement of the voting options of any particular issue in the "UPIssues.xml" file, detailed below.

0 = Vote completely randomly.

1 = Vote larger numbered option if you're winning.

2 = Vote larger numbered option if you're losing.

3 = Vote larger numbered option if alignment is evil.

4 = Vote larger numbered option if alignment is good.

5 = Vote for your enemy, or randomly.

6 = Vote for player with whom you have best relations, or yourself.

7 = Vote for yourself if losing, or otherwise for player with whom you have best relations.

 

As you can see, proper arrangement of the voting options as well as choosing the correct AI voting scheme for each issue is essential.  Even a slight mistake can cause serious problems.

That said, as one as already mentioned, leaving the UP is always an option, since out-of-the-box the UP is pretty much useless.  I however, recommend testing your modding skills by trying to fix or improve the UP issues.  I myself am doing this, or I will be after other efforts are completed.  I'd like to make the UP something that is dangerous to abandon.  But, we'll see.

Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

  I have voted against another race (I think it was about paying part of their income to all other races),  and found "we know what you doing-" appear in their relations.  I don't know if it was because of my vote.

  When I was fairly new to GalCivII,  I was surprised when one of my enemies voted for me to have the Galactic Prison which doubles production on my home planet.  What could possibly go wrong?  Duh,  I found out later!:blush: