sehargett

Thank you for all the comments. I located a number of mistakes was making First. I went back to the tutorial. I discovered that the production bar was based on 100% production. I had thought that since it defaulted to 50% that that was normal production and anything over that was overdriving the economy, costing me a lot of money. Of course now I realize that the reason everyone else was producing and researching so fast was that I was functioning at half my production rate. Fixed that for sur

I bought GC2 off the shelf the day it was placed on it. I played the beginner level, and as predicted I won without a sinlge issue. So I elevated myself to the rank of normal. and I have yet to win a game. Ok We all know the game cheats, as a way to counter the effects of our ability to strategically think, but this is rediculous. Just about every civ out researches me, and I have all the bonuses and 2 starbases mining research. I have research academies, and they are still using level one or