Ultradrive!

A nice event

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A recent game in a gigantic galaxy had an event pop up which introduced something called ultradrive or something similar. It had the effect of doubling the speed of all ships. What an awesome event!!! It definately sped the game up. I wonder this ultradrive could be made into a tech that can be researched. A tech that doubles your speed. Perhaps it would have to be just a new engine type.

*sounds of gears turning*
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
its actually a special thing that can't be researched normally and can only be discovered if you have creative or lucky. I'm not sure which one because I think its suppoused to be from creative, but in one game in the demo I had the lucky trait and not the creative and I got that ultradrive thing.

I don't know of any other techs that can be revealed like that with the creative or lucky racial ability,
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
its actually a special thing that can't be researched normally and can only be discovered if you have creative or lucky. I'm not sure which one because I think its suppoused to be from creative, but in one game in the demo I had the lucky trait and not the creative and I got that ultradrive thing.

I don't know of any other techs that can be revealed like that with the creative or lucky racial ability,


i usualy have neither but i still get this tech or ultra sensors
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Its not a tech and it affects all races, i think. this way it could be linked with the luck ability. i couldnt see any use in creative yet.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I used to get this in -every- game I played.. and then suddenly never again have I seen it
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Since this event doesn't happen in every game I decided to take matters into my own hands. I added in a new type of hyperwarp drive by copy and paste in the xml files. I just made it a bigger, faster, more expensive variety of hyperwarp III via cut n' paste. I even had it as neutral only for awhile until the combination of neutrality learning centers and the new drive type made the game unbalanced. I then removed the alignment tag.

All the programming I know consists of ctrl + c, ctrl + v, ctrl + z, and ctrl + x....yet I still manage to make something that works heheh. I guess that says something about Stardock.