Can't trade for planets?

Also no food bonus if that's related

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I've been getting back into playing GalCiv2 since the new patch and I've found something annoying - I can offer up planets for trade, but I can't ask for them from other civs. Also, I distinctly remember bonus food tiles from my earlier playthroughs, and there's none now.

I'm playing the Steam version of the Ultimate version, if that is relevant.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

heyho

this is currently debated in the CU thread

https://forums.galciv2.com/457944/page/62/#3612165

you may leave an opinion there - because there will be a finalization

but so say a few words on the subjects

planet trading could be done quite exploitable, the AI routines are erratic & gimped, but we couldn't change these...

traditional farming, and esp. bonustiles, sometimes lead to extrmely high maxpop planets which the AI can't handle - it'll wreck his economic game. thus, all farm projects gave a % instead of a base food bonus, as such bonustiles became irrelevant and were made invisible. I think it's currently changed back because the AI doesn't reckon farms as being farms, currently.

the farming problem is somewhat impossible to solve without any drawbacks on some regions....

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Ahh, got it. So, the short answer is "WAI due to AI balance reasons". Thanks for the info.

{not a clue about actual balancing so I'll leave that to more experienced people}

Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Let's leave planet trading off the game that way the ai doesn't give away planets need.