Ok my question is anone else who patched the screen when the menu pops up does your game also say 2.04 instead of 2.20.

What happened it created two separate folders under stardock. The first was galactic civilizations 2 ultimate. The other is galciv2. The first had a desktop icon. The second didn't. The first was 2.04. The second was 2.20. I wasted a day figuring this out not sure who's fault this was. My new question is will your other two mods work with the new patch, or is there no point. Are they stand alone mods. Should I delete the first folder

both mods should work, just don't use CUFI.

Okay.

I'm seeing it when playing other races too (Korx, Drath, Thalan, Iconians, Korath, Krynn), but the empty message usually comes from the Arceans.

No, however, I'm usually playing Evil when I'm seeing it. I don't remember, if it is always the case though.

You would think so. In any case, I made all race-combinations for all of the war entries, and that didn't fix it either. It got to be something else.

It is. I removed the starting/restricted techs from the Dread Lords, because they automatically start with all the techs, and the restrictions don't make sense for them. I did the same for all races that aren't in the scenario, too.

Anyway, here are the new files and the changelog. While updating the campaigns for Autumn Twilight, I noticed that I missed a few techs in the missions for DL and DA. Those should be fixed now.

The idea behind this change was that if one decided to play a peaceful pacifistic game, perhaps using a good-aligned race going for influence or technological victory, then PI wouldn't be necessary. But it still might be a good idea to increase the soldiering stat to be able to more successfully thwart off invasions on own planets.

But previously, you had to invest considerable amount of research to get PI which bonuses are completely null if you plan to not build transports.

As of now, without PI the planetary defense techs will work only defensively, except for the sole exception if one researches them and buys transports from other factions. And I think it is not unlogical to assume one can strengthen its own soldiering stat without explicit knowledge on how to build a troop transport ship mosule. Planetary defense is more about building military facilities on planets to give own soldiers some sort of stronghold.

The Space Cannon seems to have been overlooked...

Tioken it sounds like you might have the same problem I did. All the stardock says if you have the installation file on your computer not if you installed it. I used file explorer to do things, depending on the version of windows you use you may need to use user accounts, or computer instead. In your downloads, there will be more than one there is an install file for gc2 2.2. Not sure about exact wording it is an executable file. When you find it run it. Start the game, and if it doesn't say 2.2 then you might have two copies of the game. In file explorer, or whatever it is called find your c drive. Find your windows folder. Find your x86 programs folder. Find your stardock folder. If there's two copies of the game folder then you have your answer. One has an icon the other doesn't. My guess the second one doesn't. You need to ring the executable in twilight of the armor folder right click on it create icon on the desktop. This might fix your problem.

So, I got to rummage a bit through the binary and the convo file (and others, too). First, the new batch of polish (with a little leftover from the last one):

English.str: homo-sapiens to "homo sapiens", Agressors's to Aggressor's
FlavorText.xml: homo-sapiens to "homo sapiens"
GC2_Conversations: aide to aid, "back bone" to backbone, "better us of them then" to "better use of them than", long-run to "long run", "Bare aggressions towards" to Threaten, bares to bears, bare to bear (not barely)
GC2Types.xml: I keep coming back to that old mass drivation, now happy driving, joy system, and I'm still not feeling it. Maybe your original suggestion for mass driver, maybe mass propulsion, was better after all...
TechTree.xml: "Cut Throat" to Cut-Throat

Now then, the rummaging. Firstly, I started checking for race tags in the Twilight files. I concluded that:

• in map files, the latter races are numbered 10 Korath, 11 Krynn, 12 Custom, 13 Dreadlords.
• in conversations, we have 10 Generic, 11 Dreadlords, 12 EMPTY, 13 Korath, 14 Krynn; also, Terran tag is replaced by "Human"

This is not news to anybody, I gather, but I also found a couple of possible errors:

Campaigns\DreadLords\Exploitation.GC2Map, Hearts and Minds.GC2Map, The Xenon Project.GC2Map all use "Human" instead of Terran, have Custom at 10 (usually Korath), and Dreadlords at 11 (usually Krynn).

Conversely, in GC2_Conversations.xml, line 11714 reads <Listener Name="Krynn">13</Listener> (where the Krynn index is 14 everywhere else). Also, AI_GREETING_RELATIONS_ALLY has 3 phrases for Morality="1".

Further, I tried cross-referencing the topics in the file, to the binary. Firstly, here's a bunch that I couldn't find in the exe:

B_ACCEPT
AI_WANTS_PEACE_FRIENDLY_INTERVENTION
P_UNDERSTAND_INFO
AI_NO_EXCHANGE
P_NO_EXCHANGE
AI_THREAT_RESPONSE
AI_CONCERN_TOO_MUCH_DEBT
AI_CONCERN_THEYRE_TOO_STRONG
AI_CONCERN_TRANSPORTS_IN_AREA
AI_SHIPNAMES
HUMAN_WARALERT_NOWAR

Maybe they're defined somewhere else, but I couldn't find where. I only found one topic in the exe that isn't referenced in the convo file: AI_GOINGTOWAR_NOWAR. That's not exhaustive, but it's all I could find for now. Hope it helps and have a wonderful Christmas Eve, all!

All the ships are white is this intentional!

Yes, this error only happens with the minors and the DL. However, I thought I fixed it for the minors by changing their DialogueTag to Generic. Maybe taking control of them via cheats caused the error to re-appear. I'll need to look into it.

^ I just checked the relevant RaceConfig.xml and the Dialogue-tag is set to generic for all Minors, except DLs & Pirates

I'm bad I was trying to optimise an old game by upping it's graphics as much as possible. I selected unload unused textures, and lo a d behold I got white ships.

I ran a few tests and, so far, haven't been able to trigger this.

Thanks, but this is already fixed in the new files.

Speaking of which, here are the updated files and the new changelog.

The Counter Espionage tech can no longer be traded or stolen. I did this change, because it was otherwise too easy for the AI to get access to this tech (especially if the Krynn or a custom race with Super Spy was present). This had a serious impact on the usefulness of spies.

The Snathi had a second CustomizationPoints tag, and all minor races were missing Basic Space Construction as starting tech. This has also been fixed.

You can thank Maiden666. He made me aware of this.