Pyrion

Play the "Dread Lords on Parade" scenario on a gigantic map. Fun fun fun.

Depends on the circumstances. I once wiped out a minor race just because I had few planets in my territory and needed another ship producer, and they were sitting on a class-27 world, so I rounded up a couple fleets of frigates, wiped out their defenses and landed troops. It was also revenge for polluting my space with influencer starbases. God I hate that.

You want an inexpensive way to cool your rig? Buy a few cans of compressed air, and spray out your PC every couple weeks.

Not completely sure if this is documented in the manual, as I've still yet to read through the whole thing (been playing too much to do that, lol). On each one of your worlds in detail view, at the top it has the shields, hammers and beakers, there's a little button at the upper right you can click to have that world focus its efforts on one of those three. In my last game, I had several low-class worlds devoted entirely to research, with no

Couldn't just enabling vsync largely solve the overheating issue? My GF6600GT with vsync disabled routinely breaches 150fps in this game, vsync limits it to 75. Either way, my video card rarely shows signs of overheating, which is strange in and of itself, because any other game I play on this rig causes my video card to overheat. I have to play Civ4 with a desk fan blowing cold air into the case to keep my card from overheating, yet with GC2 it's no p

I would think the +20 modifies your base soldiering stat, so you won't see it as an "upgrade" in the same sense that a technology would upgrade that stat. Course, I still don't have the game yet, so I can't give you a certain answer. That's just my logical assumption.