Finding out who's playing too soon

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It really annoys me when I somehow find out which races are playing before I make first contact with them because of a GNN announcement.  (I think the trade income quarterly report lists all races in the game as well).  I know this has been brought up in the past, but the addition of all these new unique galactic achievements some races can spit out almost instantly excaberates the situation.  If you start a game with Thalans in it, for example, you'll know in the first couple of weeks once they get their hyperion whatchamacallit online.  GNN should probably not cover achievements by races you haven't made contact with yet if you're playing with blind exploration.
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Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Kryo can delete posts (As can any modderator). I suggest you edit your extra posts to have the title say "Please delete this duplicate post".
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I agree,as how do you know so quick is annoying. I think for now that the only way to stop this is to turn off the reports.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It's part of the game strategy, to make you feel your losing right out of the gate... Take it from me, if you ignore it you'll play a much better game. It's 'trash talk' mentality on the AI's part.  ;) 
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I think it's funny how minor races are always the #1-X civilization for the first fifty turns or so.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
You are getting these reports via the galactic grape vine. There ya go.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I also love how you can be ranked last for the first 3/4 of the game. Who cares that you conquered half the galaxy, you didn't do it with high scores :P
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Well the power ranking has always been like that. It places waaaaay to much emphasis on military might. Who cares to have expensive ships that take up maintenance, when there is no credible threat to deal with. For me it suffices to know that I have the production apparatus to quickly crank out a powerful stellar navy and instantly become the biggest baddest boy on the block :)

But for some reason, the power ranking thingy doesn't take that into consideration.

Morten
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Oh I so agree with asmodean_dk! But of course that is not what this thread is about. If you turn on influnce on the mini map for me it shows all the races and since by now I know thier colors I already know who is in the game. I don't care but are you even able to disable that? I'm not sure why who you are playing is such a big deal.. I choose my enemies. I seem to have picked a pathetic lot this last go around as they are all weaker than me and the jagged knife. The jagged knife came early and is researching advanced colonization techs almost as fast as me and we are competeing for the last worlds, the other AI seem to not care that the remaining 20 or so worlds are going to just fall to a stupid minor who is rated more powerful then all of them (even though it seems to do a lot of rush buying only it now has a wonderous economy, apparently it takes all the racial bonuses and STACKS them from every race it takes a world from). But I am getting way off topic, my appologies.
Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
If you turn blind exploration on you can't see other civ's area of influence until you explore the area. This means that when you're playing against random opponents, you won't know who's out there or where they are until you actually find them. Well, that would be the case if GNN didn't spoil the surprise with its announcements about achievements and trade goods. I think it makes the early parts of the game more exciting to not know if you're the only race of your alignment until you go out and find potential allies, especially on large maps where you might be making major decisions before you've met every race in the galaxy.