Greetings lads n ladies. I'm um new to Gal Civ so please forgive inevitable ignorance. I'm beta testing GCII at the moment but I'm flying blind in many ways (which I figure is a good way to test something under some cicumstances).
Anyway, what I am having trouble doing is achieving a good start in the game. The AI players seem to have some kind of magical ability to produce colony ships from thin vacuum and after only a short time I find myself with a civ about 50% or 33% the size of my nearest AI competitor.
I was wondering if anybody had put together a guide of some manner regarding starting strategies or at least something nubs such as moi can use to get a decent civ up and running. I have seen some basic user guides but they don't have much meat as regards making a competitive start for one's civilisation.
I'm intimately familiar with MOOII and how to cain the computer opponents good and hard with that game, but none of the techniques I used to apply seem to work with GCII Beta. Or maybe they do but I'm not implementing them correctly.
Any assistence would be appreaciated. I would just like to have the opportunity to help the dev team out by providing some useful feedback.
Cheers
Roger