approval went to %1 and could not be fixed...why?

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I posted this in game talk. didn't see a support forum from the main and just noticed it after completing the original post:

after a hiatus I decided to play my GC2 game again. after downloading any updates I proceeded to start a new game. galaxy was huge, all variables were random. Not long into the game the drengin's started a war with me. eventually i had lost a planet but was in no way out of the game, in fact I had just researched planetary invasion and was about to take the planet back. for some reason my approval went to red %1 and I could not adjust it. I was in the green before making money even with my spending at %100. I cannot for the life of me figure out what happened.

I do have a store purchased and registered copy. I bring that up because the only answer I could come up with was that it was some kind of copy protection.

thanks in advance

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
There is no copy protection with this game, except you have to be registered to update it.

I have only seen the approval rating at 1% when the taxes are too high.
I normally get most of the approval buildings and can manage 80% taxes with 100% approval. However, it drops to 1% when I raise taxes to 81%. So you may have bumped the tax slider up a bit too far.

You could post the contents of your debug.err file - located in your main program folder - and that may show something.
Just open it in Notepad, select all, copy and paste it into a reply.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I'm afraid the game is deleted. However I can assure you that my taxes weren't anything close to 80...off hand I want to say 39%.

well hopefully it will not occur again.

thanks for the reply
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