Damn tree huggin hippies!!

The AI loves to do this - after using the shipbuy exploit to send out like 10 colony ships in 10 turns.

What pisses me off is that they can waltz into your ZOC and colonize a planet willy nilly!

I am absolutely p'ed off with the EPA, what moron thought this up.  the whole raison d'être for any Civ game is expansion.  DO YOU UNDERSTAND!! Expansion, and the very first united nations resolution is to stop expansion. I have started the game 5 times AND EVERY TIME the first or second resolution is the EPA.

Its like playing half life and then a new rule says violence is not permissible - WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!!!

I know, what about a resolution to stop research - that's a good idea isn't it?

Or how about a resolution limiting the number of tiles you can build on to two - what a great idea - You should definitely implement that one.

What makes me so angry is that yes, the moron who came up with this idea has probably been sacked and yes it will be removed as it makes the game utter worhtless,  but what scares me is that a development team voted on game ideas and this passed which tells me the whole team has NO IDEA why anyone plays a civ game

THEY HAVE NO IDEA

I will now spend my life bagging and flaming this game.  I was utterly pissed off with Civ5 but I let that slide, but you stupid B's to do this to my favorite game.

IDIOTS 

I don't like EPA either, but holy crap dude calm down! Take a chillpill! Enroll in anger management!

Right now you have to put up with the U.P. because the option to leave it hasn't been implemented yet, but that will come! I plan on leaving it every time they pass this resolution... then I'll laugh while they've boxed themselves in to the few planets they colonized and conquer them all, knowing they can't run anywhere.

When the U.P. gives you lemons, make hatorade!

If you dislike it so much, you can actually remove its effect from the game easily enough. I did, and nothing is broken.

1. Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Galactic Civilizations III\data\Game
2. Look for the file called UPResolutionDefs.xml, open it in notepad or whatever.
3. Search (Ctrl+f) for <Behavior>BlockColonization</Behavior> and then delete that entire line.
4. Save the file and restart the game.

End result is that the resolution exits and can get voted on, but has NO EFFECT. AI will continue to colonize, you can colonize.. basically it is completely ignored.

NOTE: I don't know if it will effect a current game or not, but it will ensure all future games benefit from this.

NOTE 2: You will have to find and remove this like every time there is an update as UPResolutionDefs.xml will be redownloaded.

You are welcome.

i just had a quick thought right now the "A.I." is really just a placeholder and im thinking the extent of its abilities is that if they like you they vote with you and if they dislike you they vote against you.. if this is the case and im not sure it is then voting for the EPA should cause it to fail if most of the ai's dislike you

It might be interesting if there were two categories of resolution: ones that take a simple majority and ones that take a 2/3 or even 3/4 majority. This would allow major game-altering resolutions like the EPA while making them less common.