well, i did receive a big notice that the altarians had built something that is wowing all worlds and making everyone love their culture. on the next turn the altarians social influence exploded across the entire galaxy absolutely taking over the galaxy with influence. so it may have been an event and not just the building....since this is my first game, i have no idea.
and my populations aren't huge on those planets but they are mid size atm.
an no. i haven't changed anything. just downloaded galciv2 ultimate edition from steam, started it up, watched the tutorials, and started my game on the easiest possible setting so i could learn what does what.
however, i do suspect that something is glitching in my game. here is why....while i was playing my influence had taken over a bunch of asteroids that were being mined by another race. they turned over to me. all of my planets were connected (influence wise on the mini map). after a couple more turns i had to quit, so i saved my game and turned it off. When i started the game back up, my influence was screwed up. my western most planet was no longer connected (influence wise on the mini map) with the rest of my influence coverage. even more strange was the fact that this world, that had just used it's influence to take over those asteroids now only had a tiny circle of influence around the planet....an i mean tiny. the asteroids were now back in the influence ring of the other race and after a couple turns switched back to them.
this all happened after a simple load game. no time went by. it happens like this across the map every time i save and reload. so i'm assuming that my game is really buggy for some reason.
