Land Grab

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So I as well on my way to an influence victory, when extremely late game we had a precurser event, that raised all planets withen 5 sectors by 15! With almost teh entire tech tree discovered, 55 brand new class 15 planets showed up right smack dab in the middle of the galaxy.

Since I couldn't afford to develope all the ones I got (due to industrial sectors, etc being too expensive, and I blitzed out and grabed about 45 -50 of them so I couldn't out right buy them for all of them) I just left them alone, let the morale balance at the mid 70's with about 5 billion people, no improvments. My taxes went throught the roof! All those people and no developments to maintain! Almost overnight it jumped 1000 b.c.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I had such event only once too...
Sadly it was on the other side of the gigantic Galaxy!  
Well a few turns later I got the scientific victory!   
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I had that event at about the midway point. But it really led towards it being a much more interesting game. All the planets (about 20) were at a remote corner of the galaxy, near the then weakest civilization, the Korx. It also occurred while the two strongest civilizations (my own Iconian Refuge and the Torian Confederation) were wrapping up their first and last Great War. This greatly hindered my ability to grab those planets.

By the time the dust settled from the second colony rush, the Torians (whom I clobbered to within an inch of their life) dropped from strongest to second weakest (out of 6) and the Korx were at the beginning of their galactic dominance. I only grabbed about 1/4 of the planets while the Korx had about 2/3 of them.

The military buildup and later wars that ensued were just amazing (I played with only conquest victory). In the end the Iconian Refuge won out, but it was truly a difficult war, especially after multiple other civilizations surrendered some planets to me that very negatively affected my economic situation for a short time.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The military buildup and later wars that ensued were just amazing[...]


This happened to me. The Torians were isolated, got the event, and took ALL of the planets in the corner. Some 15 to 25 or 30 worlds. They went from weakest to second strongest in no time flat, and my allies were tangled up in wars with our enemies.

So here came the Torians, out of the depths of space, looking to clobber some unsuspecting fools. And boy, did they ever. We finally beat them back though.

It's stuff like this that makes the game exciting.

Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It's stuff like this that makes the game exciting.


I agree. It would be great to be able to set approx. how many random events u could have in a year from setup. I see very few, example 2 yrs in on gigantic map, no random events, would a galaxy full of 100's of billions of people/different races be so quiet?
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I like random events. It would be good to see more of them.