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Well, now I played a second game, with a gigantic galaxy / rare stars and things played well. With normal difficulty I'm now the dominant species in this game. I guess a big map suits me better. I didn't really pay attention to the sliders before, as in Civilization you don't have to mess with them that much yourself and the buttons to adjust spending are displayed in the main UI instead of a Domestic Advisor tab. Now that I found it, raising spending really helped things out. <b

Well, I played a game of GalCiv2 yesterday. I chose the normal difficulty, made a custom race. Some one hundred turns into it, I was already left very much behind in technology. I researched as fast as I could but the computers just seemed to be a lot faster, compared to civilization games, super fast in research. They also had numerous (4) planets, several ships etc. before I had even time to reach their planets with my flagship. In the quarterly repo