I admit that I have not played GC3 very much.  Just set up to play single-player on an Insane map size to test all the features.  I left the turn limit victory condition unchecked, so I thought it would play out as long as I wanted.  But it popped up with the Defeat screen, even though I had experienced only a couple battles with pirates and not even met all the major civilizations, didn't even have one UP event.

It seems to have ended at less than 400 turns, but it did not indicate if another Race was the winner, either.  Granted the technology marker was into Age of Ascension, but only around 32/128, I think.

Can anyone tell me what I need to do to make sure the game does not end so quickly?  Thanks.