Influence spikes and something peculiar

from GalCiv2 Forums
I've noticed often that civs get these suddent influence bonuses without a civ giving up and joining them. The influence borders even look screwy. Its like a sudden burst in their influence and it doesn't recede much if you use A LOT of influence space stations upgraded very high.

Also in playing one of these occasions I was frustrated so started anew. But for some reason I was told, when I tried to move my ships, that they were out of range and should set a course back to within my range. I couldn't activate auto-explore as well.
3,230 views 4 replies
Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
They've probably just discovered an influence resource and put a mining starbase on it with a few extra mining modules. Happens all the time.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The second thing is a bug, I've encountered it as well. Try reloading a save, though it seems it may take several reloads to 'take' as it were.
Start11 - Customize the Start Menu and Taskbar in Windows 10/11.
Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I had one game that was going very well ruined when a massive "influence spike" suddenly tripled the size of the influence of a neighboring empire, and my planets started to rebel. I was doing much better than that empire, and all of a sudden my game went to hell.

It just happened on another game but I just reloaded the last autosave, and did one or two things differently and the influence spike never happened. I'm sure its a bug. No amount of resource mining could have caused that massive an increase in influence so suddenly.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I've seen this one too. Suddenly the entire galactic map turned light blue on me. Because it's the first game I ever played, and because I saw no skull-and-crossbones icons, I figured it was a glitch, and didn't even look to see if it was really "there" or not (for all I know all my planets were at 3.99x foreign influence). A few turns later it receded back to normal levels.