I've Taken the TA Plunge... and have feedback

I still love you stardock... but...

There are some issues with TA;

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The manual needs to define, clearly, what the bonuses are for each race, and tech trees are for each race. Getting the first few games in has been painful for me.

Why?

Because I'm not sure which race best fits my playstyle. It's a great problem to have, mind you, that this game has become so deep that you can essentially "role-play" your empire, BUT... how do I know what "character class" to pick? There isn't a lot of direction provided in game, and the supplied PDF is quite terse in this regard.

Which race has the best technologies and bonuses for the type of game I want to play? I don't know, it seems trial and error, almost. Incidently, I found a bug while doing this, if I start a new game while I have a game in progress, I get a CTD (Vista 32-bit SP1, 8800GTX, 4GB ram).

I would very much love some sort of online resource that defined the tech tree's and bonuses for each canned race. This would help emmensly.

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Some planetary improvements use the old graphics still. Is an update coming to update these?

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I still love the game, well done on this one!

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Download this: http://library.galciv2.com/index.aspx?m=775
to let you casualy browse the tech trees.

Though even then it may be somewhat difficult, there are a lot of unique techs or obscure tech combinations that may switch a race radically from what looking at their tech tree 'in general' would imply. Or maybe im just imagining those and its very straight forward and im just trying to make it seem more interesting than it is

But yeah, a full rundown and review of each race, gathered from actual experience playing them at least somewhat thoroughly, commenting on their style, 'feel', various pros and cons and things of note, would be very helpful. However as always when new things come out it takes a while to really get a grasp on them. I guess we can only wait, or try to figure it out ourselves=P

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Check out this thread for a rundown of each race. It's still a work in progress, but it'll also help you to focus some more questions there if things don't get fully answered after you've read it.

https://forums.galciv2.com/310907

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