Defeated by my own race????

my race won by ascension, but I lost?

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OK, I'm a GalCiv noob.  I just played my first game of GalCiv2 (ultimate).

Basically I was just taking my turns with nothing much going on... I was trying to grind through some tech when suddenly I got "DEFEATED" blah blah, our spys report that The Terran Alliance disappeared and the ascension crystals are depleted or something blah blah.

Problem is I AM the terran alliance. ???????

What happened?  Is it possible a rouge planet of humans (with a different name) would cause this defeat and have it still listed as my race even though they call themselves something else???

 

If it helps I'll take you through my game a little.  I was playing on the easiest setting since I needed to learn how to play the game and figure stuff out since I haven't played a game like this since Master of Orion 2 when that was released.

I first researched the ascension crystals and had a victory on that.. I then loaded a save before my win and destroyed my star bases so I had an ascension score of 997/1000.  Over the course of probably 100+ more turns I focused this time on research and trying to build up my military for conquest.  Then BOOM defeat.  I then reloaded a save before that and ensured all the crystals had no bases on them.  About 7 turns later (like before) defeated again.

So at this time point I'm stuck with starting over... but I'd rather not since I've put a couple weeks into this game and would really like to finish researching.

any thoughts on this??? 

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Ok.. figured it out.  It was the Yor Collective that was ascending as they had a 2nd ascension starbase that was deep in a cornor of the map.

Still not sure why they were being listed as "The Terran Alliance" though.... oh well.

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

This is a known bug. There was an old forum thread that described something similiar with the Altarians, so what it seems like is that whenever anyone ascends it's listed as your race doing it, even when it's the AI.

Incidentally if you do something like rename a civilization (change the Terran Alliance to the Terran Federation, for instance) and save that version, there is a possibility that you might run into both variants with random civs. So in a way it is possible to be defeated by your own race.

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