Unexpected economic upturn?!?

Economy goes from good to uber in one turn

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So I'm moving along in my current game comfortably ahead in every category, not drastic (except for technology); when all of a sudden my economy goes from barely in the green hover around 200-300 bc surplus/month to 3700 bc surplus/month! No great technological leap, no interstellar event, no brilliant trade manuever, nothing.

Now....I'm not complaining about this...it allowed me to drop taxes to the point of nearly 100% approval and it allowed me to build up a 65000 bc treasury reserve in about 25 turns. This in turn gave me the power to go to war with anyone and sustain a HUGE fleet of ships.

Has this happened to anyone else? Is it a bug?



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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I just had it happen in the game that I am playing now... it appears to have affected all the other players too (looking at the economic timeline). I don't know how many turns it lasted, but it just quit and I'm back to barely scraping by.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Lol...come on, don't you read what the random events say?! This is a random event that pops up from time to time. It goes back to normal after a number of turns. It's not a bug. just like all the other events that people confuse with bugs are not bugs. Think of it like this:

when you start a game, imagine a deck of cards labeled events being shuffled and placed next to the game board. When a certain roll is made a card is chosen from the top of the deck and played that turn. Maybe the card says you find a precursor artifact, or maybe an event happens that causes an AI's ideology to change, or maybe you get a big upturn in economy...etc. There are hundreds of these events in the game. Some are quite rare. There are some I've heard about and have not gotten yet. Even in Galciv1 there are events I have never gotten (such as the draginol event). They are there to keep you on your toes for better or worse. keeps things interesting.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
After an event that shifted the Dengrin ideology, they called me up and the greeting was "May love and peace save you!" (I was evil at the time) or something to that effect. It had me laughing so hard. I would have killed them all if they were anywhere near me.

-Dewar
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I know what the economic event is.....I specifically said "no interstellar event" (meaning no special/random/anything)...I already had that event in my current game the "Economic Boom" or whatever. This economic anomaly occurred without any announcement. So naturally I assumed it was not a special event.

I should have been more precise in my original post.