Special Governments not an option when selecting opponents?

[Tanaka]

You cannot give an AI opponent race their special government when selecting them in as an opponent in a new game? Does this mean they never get their special government?

[Jim D Burns]

ORIGINAL: Tanaka

You cannot give an AI opponent race their special government when selecting them in as an opponent in a new game? Does this mean they never get their special government?

I assumed that when you selected a pre-defined race, that it came with the appropriate government type. Matrix will need to confirm this though.

Jim

[Tanaka]

ORIGINAL: Jim D Burns

ORIGINAL: Tanaka

You cannot give an AI opponent race their special government when selecting them in as an opponent in a new game? Does this mean they never get their special government?

I assumed that when you selected a pre-defined race, that it came with the appropriate government type. Matrix will need to confirm this though.

Jim

You mean if you left the gov type on random?

[Jim D Burns]

ORIGINAL: Tanaka You mean if you left the gov type on random?

Yeah, though now that I think about it I am probaby wrong in my assumption.

Jim

[OverlordCW]

You can do that afterwards with the game editor.

[Tanaka]

ORIGINAL: OverlordCW

You can do that afterwards with the game editor.

Hmmm did not know we could or think about doing this. Still there should be no reason why these cant be selected at game startup as it adds to the race variation...

[Tanaka]

ORIGINAL: Jim D Burns

ORIGINAL: Tanaka You mean if you left the gov type on random?

Yeah, though now that I think about it I am probaby wrong in my assumption.

Jim

Anyone know the answer to this? Erik?

[Erik Rutins]

Sounds like a minor issue - I would use the editor for now until we get a chance to fix this.

[Tanaka]

ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

Sounds like a minor issue - I would use the editor for now until we get a chance to fix this.

Hi Erik,

I tried to use the editor but there is no option for the race special governments there either. So it looks like the only player that can have these type of governments (mercantile, tech, etc) is the human player and not the AI?

[OverlordCW]

ORIGINAL: Tanaka

ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

Sounds like a minor issue - I would use the editor for now until we get a chance to fix this.

Hi Erik,

I tried to use the editor but there is no option for the race special governments there either. So it looks like the only player that can have these type of governments (mercantile, tech, etc) is the human player and not the AI?

Works for me. You can only change to special govs for races that can have those.

[Cindar]

I've certainly seen AI empires with special governments. Presumably they can choose to switch over themselves.

[Andrew Loveridge]

They will get the special government randomly, in fact it seems to be weighted toward them, from my experience.  I can't remember meeting Securans who didn't have a Utopian Paradise.

[Fishman]

Changing the government types in the Editor appears not to work correctly, as the changed government retains the attributes of the previous government.