Beta Tesla

I just left GalCiv2 Beta4 to download overnite, 'cuz i get 31 kps on a good day, and i come to it in the morning. The download and install is complet. I run the program, and when i get to the main menu, all the buttons are blank! theres no label on the buttons! I decide to click the top button, cuz it should be "new game", it was that in GalCiv1. So i get to the next screen, and all I get is screen of empty square with drop-down buttons! Please tell me what happend!

That last comment brings up a point. Aren't their people on those Starbases? Should'nt Starbases have their own population. When you launch a constructor it should be carrying ,say, a million people. a small drain on population, but still, it's there. As the base has limited life support, exsess people are shifted to nearby planets. That could be coded as a pop growth bonus. Every new module would bring and allow another mil of dudes. This would be cool, because it might allow you to use boardin

Having another civ come and colonize a good world before you? It really boils down to "Hey, I saw it first". The ability to Claim a world before you Colonize would nice. The way it could work is a survey ship could just park in orbit of a system and keep the other civs from taking it. It's like when Spainish explorers hit land, stick a flag in the ground, and claim it for Spain. What do you think?