Just curious, has anyone ever actually had an ally who you had good relations with surrender to you when another race was about to beat them, because as far as i've seen this never happens.
And FYI, there are no "growth penalties." In fact, there are no negative traits in GalCivII at all.
(NOTE: I just got the recent patch, not sure if this has been fixed, but from the notes i don't think it has) Even had a well developed, high-pop planet you want to capture while leaving most of the buildings intact? As of now, a little glitch lets you do it relatively easily. Damage to planet quality and loss of buildings is only calculated when you successfully capture a planet. So, bring two transports. The first one used Mass
Is anyone else frustrated with the surrender option. Namely, the fact that the AI seems almost eager to surrender in many cases. For example, in one of my games the Drengin started way off in a corner with no one near them, but little space to colonize (they had 3 systems and 4 planets). Having a slight technical edge, i decided to try and take em out. I could only afford to send over a SMALL force of outdated ships (outdated for me that is, they were
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