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Ha! Luxury! I've never had more than 3 administrators.

None of the techs that promise more administrators actually deliver them (the descriptions don't seem to match the code, either). I always choose the malevolent option on the Outpost event just to gain the 5 extra administrators, but although the extra five admins get added to the administrators tally, they aren't immediately usable. To add insult to injury, I then find out that the malevolent part of the event actually occurs when I hit "Turn" and some rapscallion murders my five new administrators! It's like some sort of bait & switch scam. Sure, administrators are a misguided fix for a non-problem and getting rid of them altogether would be ideal, but this just seems downright cruel.

Even if this were the only problem with Retribution (and it's very much not), it's a game killer. Experience tells me that Stardock will eventually get GalCiv back on track, but from here it looks like they've got several weeks work ahead of them, at the very least.

Hi,

A have a debug file in Documents\My Games\GalCiv3  

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6w3zoczsp0qolv0/debug.err?dl=0

I a bought the game but am so sorry i did it because the game is unplayable at this stage :-/

lucky you

If I had to guess, I would have to say that it is because you do not own Crusade.

Your problem is that you cannot gain administrators, which are citizens - and all the game code for citizens is in Crusade.

TBH I think they need to put Crusade down as a prereq for this expac.

That is a problem when working with a game that has been out for a few years and has as many DLCs as GC3.

For the most part they have kept it pretty modular, which has earned them a bit of flak over the years, because they usually don't build upon a mechanic from previous DLCs in the later ones.

It gets worse from a modding standpoint.  DLCs, expansions, even the occasional patch, can effect compatibility, so most are either built to be omni-compatible, which limits how much you can do, or requires almost constant maintenance.

Yeah, if this assumption is correct I would either expect a refund or a free copy of Crusade.. defrauding your customers is illegal stardock (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)

Crusade is not required for Retribution.  

Administrators recruited through "governance" techs if you don't have Crusade installed. There a few techs in the age of expansion that should get you going.  However, if you have Crusade, then you get Administrators through Citizens. 

If you are unable to get Administrators (with or without Crusade installed), please let us know.

I would buy crusades. It's a he best expansion for the game. It adds more than any other people expansion. I would also pickup lost treasures, and precursor world's. Crusades is worth buying. I like mercenaries.