Weird issue with GalCiv II Dread Lords (v1.53)

Some AIs "stuck" and not building anything.

from Stardock Forums

So this is weird. I started a game, and soon noticed that all but one of my neighbors weren't expanding their territory... eventually, a couple of them became unstuck and started to act normally again, but out of 9 opponents, there are still 7 that are "frozen" (one of them surrendered to another player when attacked by one of the 2 AIS that is working normally) with only their capitols and 1st colonies, can't build ships or planetary improvements, and can't research new technologies. Now that I have played into the game for some time and have a high level of espionage versus several of these AIs, I can inspect their planets, and I can see that while they have stuff in the build queues, the completion time is listed as "Never". I have save games I can submit, but I don't see any way to attach them to a post here. FWIW, the game is working normally other than this glitch (no crashes or other weird behavior.)

Note: I can recall this happening once or twice before, so although it is a rare occurrence it's not just some one-time random glitch.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Sounds to me like they didn't have enough economic structures to keep their economy going and had to stop production until they got out of the red.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

They have been stalled like this from the beginning of the game. This is not normal behavior. They just sit there and accumulate vast sums of BC... so it's not like they don't have the resources, just that they can't use them for normal production.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Okay well that sounds like an AI issue, either from difficulty setting or plain brokenness.  Pretty sure I've never even played that version of Dread Lords, I usually play Twilight.