Game Version: v2.4
Issue: The Galactic Challenge "New Eden" does not unlock despite reaching the condition of having at least 9 colonies.
No matter what I have tried, nor how many games I have played, I have yet to unlock the Galactic Challenge New Eden. According to the XML file Galactic Civilizations IV\Data\Gameplay\Events\QuestEventDefs.xml, the only unlock condition for it, aside from unlocking Galactic Challenges in the first place, is to have at least nine colonies:
<GameEvent>
<InternalName>Quest_GA_NewEden</InternalName>
<DisplayName>Quest_GA_NewEden_Name</DisplayName>
<Description>Quest_GA_NewEden_Dec</Description>
<BackgroundImage>Event_Jungle.png</BackgroundImage>
<Type>CrisisEvent</Type>
<ShowImmediately>true</ShowImmediately>
<Weight>0</Weight>
<Choice>
<InternalName>Quest_GA_NewEden_choice_0</InternalName>
<Description>Quest_GA_NewEden_Liberty_Bonus_Name</Description>
<BonusDescription>Quest_GA_NewEden_Liberty_Bonus_Dec</BonusDescription>
<Trigger>
<OnEvent>OnEventChoice</OnEvent>
<Target>
<TargetType>Faction</TargetType>
</Target>
<PerformAction>
<Action>BeginTrackingQuest</Action>
<StringParam>Display_Quest_GA_NewEden0</StringParam>
</PerformAction>
</Trigger>
<Trigger>
<OnEvent>OnEventChoice</OnEvent>
<Target>
<TargetType>Faction</TargetType>
<TriggerGroupTargetType>AllFactions</TriggerGroupTargetType>
</Target>
<PerformAction>
<Action>SetFlag</Action>
<StringParam>Flag_UnlockNewEden</StringParam>
</PerformAction>
</Trigger>
</Choice>
<Prerequ>
<HasNumColonies>9</HasNumColonies>
</Prerequ>
</GameEvent>
I took a look through some of the other XMLs that are tied to New Eden to see if there was any obvious reason for this not to trigger and didn't see anything promising.
The one thing I did note was that QuestEventDefs.xml is looking for "Event_Jungle.png" for <BackgroundImage>. The potential problem is, that file does not exist. What does exist is "Event_Jungle.dds". I tried modding the game for it to look for Event_Jungle.dds as well as creating a png version of Event_Jungle, but neither caused the Challenge to unlock. So this might not be the culprit (as I might not have been modding things correctly or adding files correctly), but I still wanted to highlight a potential lead to investigate. As well as actually adding the file (or changing the XMLs where it is calling for the png instead of dds) to the game itself.
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[Side Note]Event_Jungle.png is called in the following XML files:
Galactic Civilizations IV\Data\Core\CampaignDefs.xml (1 hit)
Line 83: <Image>Event_Jungle.png</Image>
Galactic Civilizations IV\Data\Core\TutorialDefs.xml (1 hit)
Line 31: <PreviewImageFilename>Event_Jungle.png</PreviewImageFilename>
Galactic Civilizations IV\Data\Gameplay\CreditsSequenceDefs.xml (1 hit)
Line 45: <Image>Event_Jungle.png</Image>
Galactic Civilizations IV\Data\Gameplay\Events\ColonizeEventDefs.xml (4 hits)
Line 561: <BackgroundImage>Event_Jungle.png</BackgroundImage>
Line 1294: <BackgroundImage>Event_Jungle.png</BackgroundImage>
Line 1482: <BackgroundImage>Event_Jungle.png</BackgroundImage>
Line 1570: <BackgroundImage>Event_Jungle.png</BackgroundImage>
Galactic Civilizations IV\Data\Gameplay\Events\QuestDisplayDefs.xml (1 hit)
Line 197: <DisplayImage>Event_Jungle.png</DisplayImage>
Galactic Civilizations IV\Data\Gameplay\Events\QuestEventDefs.xml (1 hit)
Line 1207: <BackgroundImage>Event_Jungle.png</BackgroundImage>
Galactic Civilizations IV\Screens\CommonControlArtDefs.xml (1 hit)
Line 443: <Texture>Event_Jungle.png</Texture>
Event_Jungle.dds is never called, as far as I can tell
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I've done numerous amount of tests on this, trying different angles. Here are two of my latest attempts, both of which are one turn before unlocking Galactic Challenges:
1TrurnBeforeCultUnlock_NE.GC4Sav (three Core Worlds and six Colonies)
1TrurnBeforeCultUnlock_9col_NE.GC4Sav (three Core Worlds and nine Colonies)
Simply advance to the next turn, and when Galactic Challenges unlock, the following Challenges will be available:
The Galactic Challenges that require three, five, and seven colonies are all unlocked, for the record.
I've tried with various races and have not seen it unlock in any of my games. I have also established my ninth colony/world while having Galactic Challenges already unlocked, but that still didn't cause New Eden to unlock.
If there are any other game states or other information I can provide, let me know and I'll provide them as soon as I can.
