For now, population growth is currently capped at 200 million per turn and that cap is applied *after* racial and morale bonuses. Hopefully we'll address this issue in a future update.
If someone who's experiencing this problem could send the (zipped) save game and a brief description of the problem to [email protected], that would help track down this problem. Thanks.
Regarding the anomaly exploit, enjoy it while it lasts because it'll be gone in the next release.
The AI does not seem to suffer these problems. They ALWAYS outgrow me in the early game (based on the population graph) no matter what I do. Well, the AI uses the exact same code the player uses when determining population growth. The AI is probably outgrowing you by out-colonizing you--the AI colonizes like crazy early in the
I believe population growth is rather broken currently. There is a hard limit of 200 million on the amount a colony's population can grow each turn, and that's after taking population growth bonuses and morale bonuses into account. Therefore, I'd say it's not worth putting any points into population growth when customizing a race to play with.
Thanks to nitey's observations, we were able to track this one down and fix it. Thanks, nitey! Unfortunately, the fix won't help saved games with this problem, but know this: your production wasn't in vain because improvements with this issue were built in the same location on whatever planet you last looked at in the colony management screen--even if that location wasn't normally usable! Until we release a patch (which I think will be tomorrow), you can work around thi
Pardon my ignorance here, but I've got a saved game, and I'd like to upload the score to the Metaverse, but I can't seem to find out what to click where to upload it. Thanks! You would have needed to start your game as a Metaverse game. You do that by clicking on the Metaverse button in the game's main m
Also, it's worth noting that there are other factors (such as morale) that will further limit your population. The formula I supplied is the theoretical maximum and doesn't mean you'll always get to that limit simply by having enough food production to sustain that limit.
The formula (which I posted) is correct, but it isn't a hard limit. If a planet's population overshoots that limit, it will not be brought back down to the limit, but it won't grow beyond that point, either. Therefore, Mars' population is limited to 2.5 billion, but getting to 2.7 billion isn't impossible because the game adds population before checking the limit.
You should probably get that planet. It has a potential population of 7780.340 billion. Ah, were that true. Planets have a hard limit on population of 100 billion, regardless of class.
Each planet produces food for its own citizens only. Also, there's a typo in some (all?) of the farm description texts; they should say they support X billion people. Therefore, in your case, food production of 55 mt/week should be enough to support 55 billion people. However, there are other limits to population growth: no planet can support more than 100 billion people and lower class planets can support significantly less than that amount. For more de
If a tile has more than 50% water on it, it's considered an ocean if it's not usable.
I'm on dialup at home (no DSL/cable in my neck of the woods and I'm too cheap for satellite), so I feel your pain. I hope you enjoy the game!
Yes, viewing these forums can give one a lopsided view of the game. I'd like to think that the people who aren't experiencing major bugs are having too much fun playing the game to be bothered with posting to these forums. Glad to hear things are going well for you so far, Dano.
Ah, yes. I took simulcra's comment as meaning the formula was incorrect, but PJ_'s interpretation is probably more accurate. The addition of parentheses to the formula does add clarity.
Your saved games are located in your documents folder. For example, C:\Documents and Settings\CaretFarmer\My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2. Send the saved game (compressed, please) to [email protected] along with a description of the problem. Thanks.
If you still have the saved game, please send it to [email protected] along with a description of the problem and (if possible) the debug.err file that was created when you experienced the crash (the game overwrites the previous debug.err file every time you run it, so if you've run the game again since your last crash, the debug.err file won't correspond to the crash). Thanks.
Yes, please send a save game that demonstrates the problem to [email protected].
Yes. Send the saved game and a description of the problem to [email protected]. Thanks.
The formula above is poorly expressed. I'm going to have to disagree with you. While there's no universal order of operator precedence, in many commonly-used computer languages that have an exponentiation operator (eg., Perl, VBScript, Python, Ada, Fortran, Awk), exponentiation has precedence over multiplication. Also, in mathemati
That's correct: you can watch the battle, but you don't control the ships.
You need to download the movies separately. In Stardock Central, click on the '+' next to Galactic Civilizations II to display the list of (optional) stuff that you can download. You should see a Movies folder there. Click on it and then press the button labeled "Install" (or "Update").
That's the homing device. If you leave it running long enough, the Stardock goon squad will come knocking at your door. Or maybe nothing happens? Hmm, I've forgotten now.
See this thread: https://www.galciv2.com/forums.aspx?ForumID=162&AID=101174#797413
To run in windowed mode, pass in the 'w' command line parameter as part of the shortcut. Example..."C:\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming\GalCiv2\galciv2.exe" w
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