Other Races Stop Colonizing after first planet

Occurs after a Ctrl-N

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Sorry if this has already been posted. I didn't see it anywhere when I looked.

Basically the problem occurs after one (or more) Ctrl-N to change the galaxy setup at the beginning of the game. The other races don't produce anymore than the colony ship they start with, and don't take over any more un-colonized planets near their home world.

This isn't a major deal, but is a little annoying, especially when you find a nice galaxy-planet setup to play...and the other races don't play back I have a saved-game that can be loaded if somebody wants to address the issue.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Hi!
Could it be you started the game on "cakewalk"? The AI got massive econ penalites on lower levels of "inteligence", so it takes them a lot of time to take off. Try starting the game with normal or intelligent AI, and check the difference.

BR, Iztok
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
And make sure you are talking about the major races- minor races never expand beyond their home planet. Ever.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
No, good thought, but I'm sure that's not it, I started the game on the 'Painful' setting.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
...And it was the major races (not the minor). The influence cloud on the mini-map never expands after their first colonizer settles a planet.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It's the dreaded Dead AI bug. Some sort of bug in the AI's economy causes it to lose all (or almost all) of its military, social, and research production.

It has nothing to do with difficulty or scarcity of resources (by which I mean that the AI isn't sending out no ships because there are no habitable planets in range), and appears to stem from causes unknown (though I'll wager its a problem in how industrial capacity is translated into production).

But since you're only experiencing it when you do a lot of ctrl+Ns, you can avoid it by just not ctrl+Ning.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Just had the same problem recently and had sent the save game to support and they noted the AI had all been set to fool so they had only colonized their own system. I had also used Ctrl N a few times and was playing at painful, gigantic. Not really a big deal as just started a new game without ctrl n.
Who knows maybe the ai figures that using ctrl n means you need help and lowers the ai level each time.