Good & Evil Bug!!!

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Well in my previous 2 games Galciv(1.02.42) i ve seen something odwhen random events pop up i always choose the good side but my Interface doesn t become ''Good''
Whats wrong?did they took this feature out???
I played 200-300 turns at intelligent level and i have nt managed yet to change my interface in ''good''
has anyone seen this?
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Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
"anybody?"

I'm generally quick at answering threads, but give me more than six minutes! :)

I've yet to see the good interface, but that's because I play evilly. From experience, though, it seems considerably harder to get to good than to get to evil... make so much as one evil choice and you can pretty much kiss any hopes of seeing that interface in that game good-bye.

I know the good interface is still in the game; apparently you just don't deserve it yet. ;)

- Ash

~SDC~
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
well
the thing is that u start neutral(50) and i kept choosing the good side and i went up to (68).

can u explain that?
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
It takes a LOT to get the good interface. you probably wont get it til later in game

~SDC~
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
"the thing is that u start neutral(50) and i kept choosing the good side and i went up to (68)."

So a couple more choices should make you good (70 is the switchover, I believe).

Also, I *think* (although I haven't objectively tested this) that there's a bit of a luck factor invovled. The choices you get from a lot of the events are random and vary in their degree/severity, and that seems to impact how much your alignment changes as a result of your choice. If you got unlucky and got a lot of very minor-penalty good choices, I could see how it would be possible to play a whole game w/o making it to "good".

"can u explain that?"

How did I do?

"u have 6 minutes to reply"

Did I make it? ;)

- Ash

~SDC~
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
less than 6 mins...LOL
i think u r right.i will try again to see if i am gonna evr become the good guy :)
Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top
I just got the good interface for the first time yesterday during my fourth game. In previous games I would always try for it, but I would get the event with the + planet bonus for the evil choice, and it was like 49%. That was just too good to pass up. The good interface is cool, I wish it weren't so much harder and penalizing than the evil one to get. The diplomatic effects aren't much good if the evil races are already dominating the galaxy, in fact there a bit of a liability.
Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top
The good interface is hard to get- you need a lot of events. Becoming good adds less points than the evil choices deduct.

~SDC~
Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top
Luck probably is a factor hench the skill 'luck'. I noticed when I had the luck skill I got more popups, my planet invasion ratios switched slower, and I got good breaks in ship combat.

~SDC~
Reply #12 from Stardock Forums Top
I also think (but am merely speculating here) that asking tribute from other players or going to war after signing peace treaties also makes you 'evil''. But i'm not so sure about that.