Confederacy created out of about half of my planets

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Fairly new here and I did try to find an answer but I am probably googling it wrong.

I lost about half my planets and they came up as the Terran Confederacy (I was the Terrans on Tough). I was wondering what caused this, if it was an event, or because I had just invaded my third different race planet (hadn't fully conquered any at this point though) or because I brought down my approval rating to 1% for one turn (in debt), I tend to click through screens too fast and sometimes by pass information I should have otherwise had. This would have been catastrophic had it happened ~30 turns prior.

I only ask because I'll be damned if I want this to happen again.

Thanks for your time.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

It's your taxation that's causing it.

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I have never had that myself, however if it is the taxation than holy cow.

If your approval is too low, you don't get new population.  If you don't get new population than you don't have the tax base to maintain your empire.  Do you by any chance have persistent money problems?

 

I don't play on tough because I am too much of a wimp but that seems like a bad place to be. It seems to me the Terrans play best with lots of people and better governments.  You get an economic boost with each level of government.

 

Is this not so at tough as well?

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting MarvinKosh, reply 1
It's your taxation that's causing it.

This.

The good news is that the "rebels" (which I've only seen once before in an actual game, but have experienced several times during tests) don't really do anything, although they will use ships if they're given them. So it shouldn't be too hard to reconquer them.

Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Ya that makes sense its just odd that it did it after one turn of very high taxes. They were 70% + Approval before that.

Regardless I will be more careful with these touchy peasants. They obviously don't watch the news or they would think twice about rebelling...

Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting brad31781, reply 5
Ya that makes sense its just odd that it did it after one turn of very high taxes. They were 70% + Approval before that.

The taxpayers in GalCiv 2 notoriously have the memories of goldfish - it's a well-known exploit that you can always win an election by cutting taxes the week before, then revert them right afterward (although I try to avoid it because it's kind of cheesy). It makes sense that it works the other way.

I leave it as an exercise for the reader to decide whether this is unrealistic.

Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Methinks it's a random event. This is terrible I know, yet if the event does me wrong - i go back n load auto save to get a diff event