Ronstar

Thanks for the info. You may be right about the offensive capabilities even though I have 3 defenders and others just have 1 at this stage of the game. I think I had built at least two of my defenders before I had researched any weapons. I'm still figuring out the upgrade process and how to manage those costs, so I should check that out. - thanks BTW - I upgraded to the v1.3 beta and the problem resolved itself in the next turn - I'm on top of the list again, and everybody lo

It's not the rankings that I'm commenting about - I've only used that endgame info as a way of showing my points at the time the error occurs - BTW all the other Civs have 0 military too at that point. The gamestopper is that from that point on if I continue IN GAME the calculations used to determine successful outcomes of things like making good deals on trading technologies, alliances etc. they all seem to be based on that "power" rating and as I said above - in a matter of a couple o

I'm new, but have searched the forums as best I can, so please forgive if this is covered elsewhere. I have started several small games (3 other Races), and they all have had the same problem at one point or another - I manage to be the most powerful Civ at every quarterly review until at some point, without any change in my strategy and still with a significant lead over the other Civs in EVERY area including Influence, Council votes, Ships built, Area of space occupied, overall Popula