Why do I have a teammate?

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I'm not sure if it's every game, or if I'm just getting "lucky", but I keep discovering early in my sandbox games that I have a teammate (an ally from the get-go).  This is really annoying, since I'm not deliberately setting it up.  I've got everything randomized, I'm playing a medium galaxy with four (randomized) opponents, and I'm playing at normal difficutly.

What gives?  Does "normal" difficulty entail always having a teammate to mitigate challenge, or do I have a setting configured somewhere that I don't know about?  The teammate chosen seems random, and it doesn't seem to matter which race I choose.

Help!  (And thanks in advance.)

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

If you're very sure you haven't just accidentally set an opponent to Team during game setup, it sounds like you might have a borked installation that somehow mingles a campaign scenario with your sandbox settings, but I've never heard of something like that and I read a good bit around here. It definitely doesn't sound right.

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

A possibly relevant question:  If I _wanted_ to set an opponent to "team" with all opponents randomized, how would I do that?  Since I don't know how I would do that, it is possible I've done it and just can't tell...

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Under the window that shows which opponents you have set (last page of game set up), you can select your starting relations with individual civs. If you started every game allied with a particular race, I'd say that's exactly what got changed.

Since one of the settings here is "random" it's possible you're just rolling one teammate by random each game, but the odds of that are absurdly high. I'm not even sure team is possible to get out of a random roll.

Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I'm not even sure team is possible to get out of a random roll.
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I'd hope you couldn't. That seems like a scenario condition, not a basic sandbox thing. It shouldn't happen in sandbox unless you deliberately make it so.