native ability

from GalCiv2 Forums
When I play the game everything is going fine the all of the sudden my approval rating goes down to 1%. It says I have -2147483648% on native ability. I have no idea what this means or why it is so high, but it happens a lot. What am I doing wrong? How can I fix it?
3,083 views 7 replies
Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Please go to C:\Program Files\Stardock\Totalgaming\GalCiv2 (or wherever you installed the game at), open the debug.err file you find there in notepad, and copy/paste the contents into a post here. If this is a DA report, you'll find the debug in C:\Program Files\Stardock\Totalgaming\GalCiv2\DarkAvatar instead. This will give us some technical information that can help troubleshoot your problem.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
What am I doing wrong?


you didn't name your leader "George W. Bush," did you?
Star Control: Origins
Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
To test to see if it's GW, first check to see if the Senate is overwhelmingly voting you in even if approval is at 1%.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Your leader didn't happen start a war over "Spore Ships" another Civ supposedly had because your "spies" told you they did?
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I am having this problem as well. I can play for a while then my approval rating drops from where ever it is to 1%. Each of my plants report the same # for native ability as reported above. The first game this happened I lost a planet and my approval went back up. The second time this happened I lost a planet and stopped playing the game. The third time it happened I lost 3 planets. Each times the same minor race took over the planets. They are the Brindlia. What's going on here? I was getting into this game before this happened.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I decided to do a little research on this problem. I thought it might have something to do with tech or the ethical choices one makes.

I started a game, dedicated everything to research (60%) and populated only one additional planet.

I watched my approval every turn. Then it happened. While enjoying an approval rate of 98% I got 2 ethical dilema's in a row. The first one was about a plauge. I choose the neutral course. The 2nd dilema concerned native speicies on my home world. I choose the Good cource and BAM my approval dropped to 1%.

I'll start playing another game and see if I can duplicate this to make sure this question and answer combo is indeed the problem.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I watched my approval every turn. Then it happened. While enjoying an approval rate of 98% I got 2 ethical dilema's in a row. The first one was about a plauge. I choose the neutral course. The 2nd dilema concerned native speicies on my home world. I choose the Good cource and BAM my approval dropped to 1%.


Yes, IIRC it was found that this issue was resulting from the event with morale modifiers for the choices. I believe Cari found and fixed the issue for DA, but if you're playing DL it may still be present.