Influence Implosion

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Hi, I guess this is right place to post if not apologies.

I'm new to this excellent game and after a couple of tries was grinding happily through an influence victory (at Normal) when I got a random event and went from 77% of the board to about 3% in a few turns.

Is this a bug or a feature  and if the latter can the event be disabled?

Thanks,

Jon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

There are several events, that have an effect on influence.

Two of them are random events, that either increase or decrease the influence of all races for a random amount of time.

Then there are two Mega Events. One dramatically increases the influence of a specific race, while the other increases the influence of all races, but one (it's in retaliation to "cultural conquest" by that race). They are permanent.

It sounds like you might have run into the second Mega Event.

You cannot disable individual Mega Events. It's all or nothing. While you can disable certain random events via modding, the influence-changing events, and some others, are hardcoded. So, once again, it's all or nothing.

During the map setup, remove the tick from Mega Events to disable them. To disable random events, set their frequency to None.

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Many thanks Gaunathor,

 I realised that this was in reaction to my megalomania but wasn't sure whether it was permanent or if I could have done something - presumably spent lots of gold - at the time.

Well yes I will disable megaevents next time. It doesn't seem to me that this one - or I see there can be hordes of space pirates too(?) greatly improve things. I find randomness in games pretty irritating, at least to this extent.  

Cheers,

Jon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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