I love this game, but I do wonder about some of the game features.

I don't like to draw comparisons against the MoO II game but here I must.

In MoO when you take over a planet there are several options of what do do with the population. You can eliminate them or assimilate them into your population, you can load them up onto colony ships and send them into enemy territory   

In galciv I would really like to feel as though I was freeing the population from opression, or getting some population to opress. I don't understand why the game treats every colony you take over as though you just colonized a planet with some infrastucture all ready in place. I would like to see some of the population left, but perhaps with declining penalties to growth and morale. Perhaps there could be a moral decisiion pop up sceen or something, I don't know, but right now there is not a lot to it.

It's a great game, I just wonder at that exclusion.