if I could comment on races and ship designs. I assume your talking about Gal Civ II. I used to play, and like, the game. For some reason, it didn't stick with me though, the races seem awfully unbalanced. I suppose when I played and loved MoM and MoO, that sort of thing never bothered me, but in my aging, I've become quite iritated by small items like that.
On ship designs, it heartily annoys me that the connector points are not centered. If you take a single straight peice, for example, and simply line a bunch of them up, they become hopelessly skewed. It isn't a small thing, but noticable even with just two items connected together. And the connecter points on the ship models tend to be horribly unaligned. I seriously spent more time designing ships then actually playing the game (call me weird, I don't care). It was fun for me. But when the connection points are so terribly misaligned with respect to the body of the item, it is just no fun for me to sit and design elaborate ships. If it isn't fun for me to design elaborate ships, it isn't fun for me to play Gal Civ II. If there were no ship design options at all, it might be fun for me again. But the option to design ships, sitting there available for me, but with the connection points so carelessly placed on the items; it is downright frustrating. The ship designer is there taunting me, teasing me to come design ships, but when I do, they will never come out right due to misaligned points. It is, I'm sure, something a lot like what Tantalus experiences in Hell.
