UUMickey

I am seeing others ask similar questions, but I need some advice myself... Yay! I have three huge battleships. Boo, they are sucking my economy dry. No matter how I configure my sliders, I am still at -200bc a turn. Do I need to scrap these behemoths or just build a ton of econ structures? I usually research econ first so I can get a little ahead of the curve, but it's not really working. I don't think I am expanding too fast either, or am I? I grab 3-4 planets in the beginning and then try

Hi, everyone. First off, let me say I am a new GalCiv player. I've only played through a few games. I've done a lot of reading first, mostly the newbie guides here in the fourms. I've played all my games as Humans, so far. I was wondering, what is the incentive to choose another race besides Human? I see that each have their own bonuses and such, although they don't look a good as the Human bonuses. I started a game last night as a different race (I can't remember which one) and I seem