Noghanimus: That's the way trade worked in GC1 as well. The value of the trade route would go up in time, and it wouldn't be until later cycles that the variation on where along the trade route was noticable against the increase-over-time factor.

jmgarth: I've always felt that everyone that had researched "Interstellar Repulic" should be in the UPC, and if they hadn't, or the quit the UP, they shouldn't be. What you're seeing is consistant with the way GC1 ran the UPC, but I dont' think it's the best way to do it.

I've always felt that everyone that had researched "Interstellar Repulic" should be in the UPC, and if they hadn't, or the quit the UP, they shouldn't be. What you're seeing is consistant with the way GC1 ran the UPC, but I dont' think it's the best way to do it.

I'm not sure if you're stating an opinion of how it should be, or are just incorrect on how it actually is. In neither GC1 nor GC2 is Interstellar Republic a prerequsite for voting in the UPC.

In the ending details, the military report is inaccurate about ships killed (both ennemy and personnam: it shows 0 while I know that ships have been destroyed: I have watched my fleets slaugthering others fleets.

Sorry if this has been reported before ... When the Senate votes to approve a change to the Federation form of government, the text that comes up says that they have approved the "Imperial" form.

When I play games, I often get a CTD. No problem, I just reload from the autoload and contnue. Sometime, the autoreload also CTD. Then I load from the previous autodload. This last game, both autoload and previous autoload immediately CTD. Not sure I understand how a previous autoload can crash.

I'm not sure if you're stating an opinion of how it should be, or are just incorrect on how it actually is. In neither GC1 nor GC2 is Interstellar Republic a prerequsite for voting in the UPC.

Stating a preference. I seem to recall that in GC1 (not sure about GC2), there was no UPC until someone invented Interstellar Republic, and then all of a sudden, the Terrans and everyone they had contact with were in on it. That contact was all that mattered, and that is what I disagree with. One time I was the only person in the UPC, the first vote came up as an indefinite limit to the number of starbase modules that could be added. I voted for the minimum amount, resigned from the UPC (so I was not affected by that resolution) and then went out making contact with everyone. A little shadow hand action made sure that any starbases that were well-developped got destroyed, and all of a sudden, I'm the only one in the galaxy that can create useful starbases.

anomoly bug: The "+2 DEFENSE" reward anomoly doesn't actually give your ship anything

Ah Citizen Proud Canadian! You are putting salt in my wound. Same goes with +1 WEAPONS. But if you mention this bug few times more we might bore game designers into fixing this one in next beta build. Something tells me that they do that if there are 10 or more complaints.


BTW How to use quoting? I pressed 'quote' button and in the message window I got quote - /quote string without anything between and when I submited text I got a thick line (thin rectangle?) above my text and that was it.

BTW How to use quoting? I pressed 'quote' button and in the message window I got quote - /quote string without anything between and when I submited text I got a thick line (thin rectangle?) above my text and that was it.

Quoting used to work. Now I see the same thing you do. I quoted you by selecting the text I wanted to quote, copying it to the clipboard, and then pasting it between the quote/endquote tags. The way it used to work was that it would automatically copy the selected text into the quote.

I hit a CTD while trying to submit my latest game to the metaverse. Sent the SmartException report and the endgamesave to gc2bugs. I was able to reload the game, try it again, and reproduce the crash.

bug?

Quarterly Reports: Top 1 Most Powerful Civs

This just isn't useful

bug

Custom race homeworld name is not used. The homeworld for a custom race is just the name of the star and the sequence number (ex: Ireland III)

bug

Some planets do not appear to get the full 8mt/wk from a Xeno Farming improvement. Some do (for a total of 11mt on a planet with just 1 Xeno Farming) but the others only get a total of 6mt/wk. Strange.

on #119 and #121 (Trade):
Popup Target, what I meant was that the message lists the lower limit of the trading, and not the average. I assume that the program could easily calculate the average, and report that. IMO, it is more useful to know that in the end your average income from a trade route (base, without trade modifiers) is 60, and that you start out with a small fraction of that (8)... I do recognize that from GC1, but that had the same reporting problem....
I would much prefer to see the 60 average being reported that the 8 initial value.

Tourism....
I've posted a question on how tourism works in the general forum, but I think it's a bug that upon reloading a game tourism starts out at ZERO again... Something missing in the save game info ?
Unless tourism is based on influence, and is recalculated (like influence) over a number of turns.

On a close to evenly balanced budget, with an almost empty treasury, it does make the difference between going into debt or staying in the black (green) on a reload.

Is it normal that we cannot build the same ships/modules as standard ship like colony?

I use a cargo hull and put the same modules on that are also on the colony but i don't have the same amount
of room, the colony is 42 ( Cargo Hull, sensors, hyperdrive, basic support x 3 and colony module) but when i try to build
the same myself it is way over 55 and modules do not all fit on this hull.