Strange IP and BC bars on diplomacy screen

Please help

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Hi all.

 

I'm new to the game and I'm still getting used to the mechanics of the game. Reading and watchint the tutorial videos have helped me much but I don't find any info about a strange thing.

 

When I click on "speak to" a alien race, I go to a "negotiation screen". There I can make offers or requests. I understand the mechanics involved but one thing. When I select influence points or credits, a window pops with a slider to select the amount to request/offer. But that slider bar has a green color gradient that ends before the full slider cap. It's like it was a gradient to fill the entire slider and is not well resized.

I post an image:

 

Strange Thing

 

I started the game with a 4:3 windowed resolution just in case it was a widescreen bug but the slider remains the same, so it could indicate some kind of special level on that slider. Anyone knows about it?

 

Thanks in advance.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

That's perfectly normal I think, it happens in my games and it happens in every Let's Play video I've ever watched.

I think it represents the amount of money you have in your treasury in relation to the absolute maximum you can offer in trade.

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

So you can offer more money or influence (it happens on influence slider too) than you have? On money, it makes sense to be on debt, but being on "influence debt"?? I'll check this afternoon, just in case, thanks very much.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I can confirm that the extreme right (not the point where the green zone ends, marked on the screenshot) of both influence and money sliders, on the left and right sides are the maximun credits or influence points the race has, so you cannot trade more than you have.

 

I have to add, that on 2 games I have played GalCiv2 the green zone never changed. Furthermore, the domestic policy sliders have a equivalent blue gradient zone that don't fill the entire slider, but in this case only a tiny portion is left blanked, so it may be a bug or something; sounds strange, though. Anyone could confirm?

 

Thanks in advance.

Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

The bar colors green when your total offer has reached a level that's acceptable for the AI. If it shows red, it means that you're not offering enough for the AI to consider your proposal.

The only exception are influence points that have a bug: the AI will only consider up to 999 influence points at a time; above that amount it will not attribute any value to whatever number of influence points you're offering.