[bug]Terran AI colonizing Toxic planets without proper tech?

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I just came across what looks like a frustrating bug or maybe just one more blatant example of how the AI is allowed to cheat on you at higher difficulty level.

 

Terran just ninja'd some of my planets. I have high level espionage on them and know all their tech and they DO NOT have Toxic atmosphere reductor. Yet they colonize the toxic planets. If I research it, I can even trade it to them, proof they do not have the tech.

This is very annoying to me :(

 

Here is the save game:

 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43851675/TerranAIcheats.zip

 

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I took a look at your save and the Terrans have a +50% bonus to Toxic Colonization for some reason. I've never seen that before, and I've been observing the AI a lot while working on my mod.

The AI does get bonuses to it's abilities if you play on difficulty levels higher than Tough, but not to the Extreme Colonization ones. This is definitely a bug.

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

You are right, I have never thought about checking in their stats directly but its there. They seem to have Native toxic world colonization.

Maybe after polluting the earth for centuries it became a toxic wold itself and humans adapted to it. XD

 

On a side note, they also have aquatic colonization bonus. And once again it does not seem that they have the tech. Yet I cannot trade it to them. Strange.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting EvilMaxWar, reply 2
On a side note, they also have aquatic colonization bonus. And once again it does not seem that they have the tech. Yet I cannot trade it to them. Strange.
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They definitely had it when I checked. It should be easy to verify. Talk to them and change the Viewscreen to the Tech Report. It lists all researched techs you have in common with them.

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Ah sorry yes, you are right. I had not checked at that place, only in the spy list, which is incomplete.

They must have gotten it by trading with someone else.

Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

  Mystery solved.  I was going to suggest that they had "advanced toxic atmosphere reductor" without the "toxic atmosphere reductor".  Both give the 50% colonization increase.

Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting Zarnick, reply 5

  Mystery solved.  I was going to suggest that they had "advanced toxic atmosphere reductor" without the "toxic atmosphere reductor".  Both give the 50% colonization increase.
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That was my first guess, but they don't have either tech. I tested this by using the cheat-keys to take control of the Terrans, and looking at their tech tree.