Cruel developers turning my victory into defeat

from GalCiv2 Forums

This is galactically insane! From a game where my Terran Alliance population was 73% of the galaxy and winning in almost every area, Stardock's ruthless developing team have conspired to destroy me on a personal level.

How can this be happening? Here's how:

1 An event strengthens native culture! Once an ocean of blue color, my area turned into teeny, disjointed blobs - everyone else's area grew enormous. Mining bases abandoned me in droves. Soon, the 2nd and 3rd custom races conquer the minor races and magically catch up with me in population.

2 Assassination event! Now I am at war with my #1 trading partners the L'tici, a custom female race of fetish pornographers. In fact, all of their allies join into the clusterfrack. All my trade routes are gone, and soon all my economy starbases are ash. Welcome to red money.

3 Another event in the sequence of madness - Ultimate Robot Peacekeepers from the planet fubar appear to kack any ship outside their area of influence. Since the native culture event my area has become dramatically smaller. These immortal drones actually only attack my ships... and then they annihilate rest of my starbases!

I am now the 2nd most powerful at war with the 1st most powerful. I am allied with the 4th, another female fetish custom race. I have a technology edge, but I can't wage war because of those Peacekeepers.

How do I deal with this... and what devious disaster comes next?

32,532 views 12 replies
Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
These Peacekeepers are camping outside of my stray planets and kicking any defending ships. I don't think I can defend these planets now...
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

a custom female race of fetish pornographers.
A another female fetish custom race.
How do I deal with this...


Psychiatry might help with your female pornographer fetish. :p

Galactic Civilizations IV
Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
i've had problems like this too!....except i don't have any pornographic races :P

-Dave
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Psychiatry might help with your female pornographer fetish.


I hope your joking. In my universe there is nothing wrong with galaxy-wide pornography, but I don't mean to sidestep the rules by talking about sex.

Anyway, with these invincible Peacekeepers camping all over the galaxy, my fleet was demolished and I fell to last place (4th) in power. By this time weapon tech was so high that when the space pirates invaded, even black holes and doom rays plinked off them. Then came more assassination events shoving everyone into a war mosh pit.

Between the Peacekeepers and space pirates kacking everything, the most any civilization could do to wage war was build many fast transports and pray some slipped through.

What more could go wrong? The Vegans arrived... well on their way to a technology victory. I had to painfully build a path of influence stations so I could get transports close enough to invade in one turn. It took a fleet of transports to invade twice and stop them.

After that the galaxy turned into a peaceful place where everyone hated each other but could do nothing. I took the technology victory many turns later.
+1 Loading…
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
lol at this post, good read castra...

I had an almost identical game a few weeks ago, that culture drain thing just hammered my advantage. I remember thinking at the time... meh, that won't hurt too much, but man was I wrong! Talk about the proverbial rug from under feet, it took forever to recover for the tech victory.

I just hadn't realized what a massive investment I'd made in culture until I was hoodwinked. It can seem such a happy-gas victory path until it's suddenly stripped from you amongst a galaxy of knive-sharpening military path bots, who no longer care for your restaurants and cheap shoes.

Oh and btw... I hope your custom races have appropriate pics.

Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I hope your joking. In my universe there is nothing wrong with galaxy-wide pornography, but I don't mean to sidestep the rules by talking about sex.


You can play the game your way, and we can call you creepy for telling us about it.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
You can play the game your way, and we can call you creepy for telling us about it.


THAT made me laugh.
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
a custom female race of fetish pornographers. In fact, all of their allies join into the clusterfrack.


With a Handle called "Castratica" something like that was kinda going to happen :LOL:

Got lots of sympathy over the Event sequence tho, definitely one of the rougher draws from "Lady Luck"

Regards
Zy
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Hahaha, I was in the reverse situation - doing mediocre but not bad, and suddenly the there's a mass galactic rebellion affecting NONE of my worlds, and a few turns later the Peacekeepers show up and attack everyone but me.

Don't know if it was a game bug or what, but the Peacekeepers, a non-civ, contacted me via diplomacy a few times and I got a good relationship going with them so they liked me, then I sold them a bunch of heavy battleships... my "allies" soon became my "easy targets" and the Death Furries Empire grew to over 8 times its original size in about 80 turns.
Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I like the Mega Events for just that reason, it totally shakes things up and keeps it interesting. The most carefully laid plans go awry; its definitely a challenge to be forced to abandon a strategy you've heavily invested in and shift to another avenue of victory.

Of course, seeing the AI get totally ganked by a mega event that leaves you unscathed gives you the opportunity for a very smug "Ha ha, suckers!" type of victory.
Reply #11 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
LOL. Gotta say I laughed. Sorry for your miss-fortunes, but sometimes that is the way the galactic cookie crumbles.

Yeah, I have had a couple of games that go that way. Go from being top dog down to just a mangie mutt. In my game, I got hit by a Galactic Recession followed by the Dreadlords coming and parking in the solar system one over from my home planet. Tech hadn't progressed to the point where I could even scratch the DL, but that had to change, and quickly. I spent about 100 turns building up on the planet farthest from my civilization center, just to keep ships in the air.

I really like the Mega events, even if they sometimes whimpering like a (oldest profession) begging for their next (illegal pharma product), after finding (Talking Heads Song). Ouch...
Reply #12 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I notice you still won the game by changing strategy and pursuing a different victory condition so the mega event(s) worked as intended. Another option would be to exit the game and load an autosave from before the mega event but, if you don't want to work with the radically changed universe these events create, it's easier to turn them off. I think it would be nice if the developers could allow us to toggle mega events individually instead of all or nothing - but the events you get seem to depend a lot on your style of play so individual control may defeat the purpose.