Thoughtbot360
2012-10-28, 12:49 AM
Well, this story might have more of a place on the Galciv forums, but I can't log onto those right now because the website is being stupid.
So, I was playing Galactic Civilizations 2: Ultimate Edition. Immense Galaxy, loads of Habitable planets, 9 rival civilzations (widdled down to three, whereas the most powerful is the Thalan empire, and the second most powerful is the Terrain Empire, and I am neither of those guys), had all the makings of an epic game.
Of course, while I had the biggest ships in the galaxy, I mostly got tied up on the much less crowded eastern side. It was just me, the Terrans, and the Iconians. I tried to chase the Terrans out of my territory and make peace with them later, but my mighty Battle cry of "Get out of my space, HUMANITY!" was met with my sectors being swarmed with Terran fleets which destroyed all my crap (even widdling down some of my large-scale battleships), but since they couldn't invade my heavily populated worlds successfully, it all ended in a messy stalemate. Meanwhile, the insect-like Thalans conquered more or less the entire WESTERN side of the Galaxy.
So, to make a long story short, I was able to get the humans off my back just in time for the bugs to declare war on me. I tried to broker a peace with them (I *did* have as much diplomacy ability as I was going to get with the race I was playing), but ended in failure.
In frustration, I decided to take a page out of Tom Francis' (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/161570/blog/galciv-2-war-report-final-entry/) book and demand everything they had for the privilege of being spared by the weakest civilization in the galaxy (well, technically the Iconians were the weakest, but they were in some little corner of the Galaxy and they barely were even present.)
I demanded world after world after world from their list (I was getting SO tired of clicking just for intention of fruitlessly annoying a game AI), and the text remained red, revealing that (surprise, surprise) this deal wasn't something they were going to go for.
Not to do a job part-way, I even asked for all of their influence, the last thing before I "offer" them 1 bc in exchange for their entire civilization.
And this is where things got weird.
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/5015/whatng.gif
...what? Acceptable proposal? YOU HAVE NOTHING LEFT! You've been staring here telling me "No. No. No. No." and now its okay? (note: you might notice the scroll bar under the "Starships" section in the right hand inventory. I didn't ask for any ships yet. Or after -I didn't want to "fix" what just happened- but all they have left are their ships and no way to pay for them!)
Talk about a glitch! Did the deal just become so bad that it went all the way around and become okay? Was the boredom of watching me click their entire civilization away tearing them apart?
This was obviously a glitch. It would ruin the entire game if I decided to actually take this deal. I didn't have to think about it twice.
I sent it.
They accepted.
So, the galaxy was then filled with the entire Thalan armada (now all pirates) and the Terrans are swamped with them, getting all of their fleets and starbases destroyed (HA! Payback!) while I had more planets than I knew what to do with. I even got Massive sized Hulls from the deal.
But seriously...wow. I got the entire "western" galaxy from one glitch. That's one for the history books.
No backsies! :smallamused:
So, I was playing Galactic Civilizations 2: Ultimate Edition. Immense Galaxy, loads of Habitable planets, 9 rival civilzations (widdled down to three, whereas the most powerful is the Thalan empire, and the second most powerful is the Terrain Empire, and I am neither of those guys), had all the makings of an epic game.
Of course, while I had the biggest ships in the galaxy, I mostly got tied up on the much less crowded eastern side. It was just me, the Terrans, and the Iconians. I tried to chase the Terrans out of my territory and make peace with them later, but my mighty Battle cry of "Get out of my space, HUMANITY!" was met with my sectors being swarmed with Terran fleets which destroyed all my crap (even widdling down some of my large-scale battleships), but since they couldn't invade my heavily populated worlds successfully, it all ended in a messy stalemate. Meanwhile, the insect-like Thalans conquered more or less the entire WESTERN side of the Galaxy.
So, to make a long story short, I was able to get the humans off my back just in time for the bugs to declare war on me. I tried to broker a peace with them (I *did* have as much diplomacy ability as I was going to get with the race I was playing), but ended in failure.
In frustration, I decided to take a page out of Tom Francis' (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/161570/blog/galciv-2-war-report-final-entry/) book and demand everything they had for the privilege of being spared by the weakest civilization in the galaxy (well, technically the Iconians were the weakest, but they were in some little corner of the Galaxy and they barely were even present.)
I demanded world after world after world from their list (I was getting SO tired of clicking just for intention of fruitlessly annoying a game AI), and the text remained red, revealing that (surprise, surprise) this deal wasn't something they were going to go for.
Not to do a job part-way, I even asked for all of their influence, the last thing before I "offer" them 1 bc in exchange for their entire civilization.
And this is where things got weird.
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/5015/whatng.gif
...what? Acceptable proposal? YOU HAVE NOTHING LEFT! You've been staring here telling me "No. No. No. No." and now its okay? (note: you might notice the scroll bar under the "Starships" section in the right hand inventory. I didn't ask for any ships yet. Or after -I didn't want to "fix" what just happened- but all they have left are their ships and no way to pay for them!)
Talk about a glitch! Did the deal just become so bad that it went all the way around and become okay? Was the boredom of watching me click their entire civilization away tearing them apart?
This was obviously a glitch. It would ruin the entire game if I decided to actually take this deal. I didn't have to think about it twice.
I sent it.
They accepted.
So, the galaxy was then filled with the entire Thalan armada (now all pirates) and the Terrans are swamped with them, getting all of their fleets and starbases destroyed (HA! Payback!) while I had more planets than I knew what to do with. I even got Massive sized Hulls from the deal.
But seriously...wow. I got the entire "western" galaxy from one glitch. That's one for the history books.
No backsies! :smallamused: