Alliance bug? Wars vs. Allies

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So I know this will sound a little wierd to try but I thought I would test out the flexibility of the software and well... I got the game to hang and but good.

So I am playing a game on normal difficulty in a tiny galaxy with 6 other races. Its well into the game and I am 1 week into the 10 weeks needed for a cultural victory. I am at peace with everyone and friendly or better relations. I am the furthest advanced in tech, military, economy, and number of planets (thanks to some good placement and willingness to go into a little debt early to colonize some far off worlds). Every other race is going to war on and off with all the others due to some inter-alliances with the Yor, Tholians and, Arceans dragging everyone else in periodically. I have balanced everyone else by creating trade routes evenly with the other races and a lot of economic starbases. So, its late game and I decide to try allying myself with 5 of the 6 races (so I won't get an automatic victory). The game lets me ally with everyone, though many of the races are fighting with the other ones. Then the next turn, everything moves as normal but it hangs, not letting me do anything. The processor reads 100% activity and all I can assume is that the game is trying to decide who I should now be at war with and who should be with me but can't seem to due to the web of allies.

Has this happened to anyone else? Is this a known bug or just something so "illogical" the computer just can't handle it?

Thanks.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I don't get it, can you say it in english ...?
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
i dont think thats what it is, because i know ive done the same things, and it shouldnt do that, it is likely a bug, and well, its a computer, and theres 6 races, it shouldnt be that hard for it to figure out whats happening, especially on a tiny galaxy. i mean when it can handle 6 races with hundreds of planets in a gigantic galaxy with all the alliances and trade, it should manage that fine, so you probably had some kind of bug.... i of course could be wrong, but under the circumstances, id say bug first, and look into that a little more.
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Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Unless you had a massive amount of ship going and attack that turn, your computer shouldn't of locked up like that. You most likely have something else running in the background, like a anti-virus scanning or some sort of maleware. Or you could have a really crappy processor, I dunno.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I had that happening on my computer 2 times since i bought the game, so it seems to be extremely rare. Somehow the programm gets cought up in an endless loop, no idea where this comes from though.

I guess it must be a special incident/situation that triggers this, because if it occurs, than always at the same turn. If it once occurs at turn 100, it will always occur at turn 100 no mater how many times you reload the game. Your game is just lost than

However I only experienced this at the beginning, never happened anymore since the couple of newest patches.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Probably just a hiccup in your system. Did you try loading up the save game to see if you could reproduce the problem?
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
You most likely have something else running in the background, like a anti-virus scanning or some sort of maleware. Or you could have a really crappy processor, I dunno.


Nothing in the background, and a great processor.


Did you try loading up the save game to see if you could reproduce the problem?


Yes, if I don't form the alliances the game continues normally. But it seems to happen everytime I try that multiple alliance trick, even if its a few extra turns into the game from that point.