Deep Breakfast

Oh crap. It seems as if tactical combat is winning overwhelmingly in the recent poll. Don't you people see how many combats happen in a turn? It would completely bog down the game if Stardock added tactical combat to Galciv2. Can you imagine the Civ series with tactical combat? That is what galciv would turn into. Sure, you can say "Well, it could be an option to turn off." True, but tactical combat would take a lot of resources to program and it would diminish the amm

I have real problem with AI empires just up and surrendering all the time. This saps a lot of the fun from the game. It doesn't even take much for the AI to surrender. Just the loss of a few planets. It completely erases any chance for the AI empire to make a comeback. Many times I will be just starting to support a losing empire with ships and they just up and surrender. While I do like that surrendering is in the game and

Before the 1.0X patch I had many minor civs in all my games. Now I am lucky if I get one minor civ per game. Most of the time there are none. What gives!? They added a lot of character to the game and now that they are all gone there is something missing. Bring them back!

Are you building military too? I am at work right now but as I recall the Arceans are a militaristic race so they will have large military. The larger the proportion of their military to your military is, the more likely they will attack you. It makes sense from a gameplay stance too. Why would the other players let you completely outclass them in tech? If you have a small military, a race with a large military is perfectly positioned to take you down a notch. <b

As has been mentioned, the penalty is added primarily for gameplay. There is no real reason to keep your populace happy with you if the penalties are not in place. Now that approval rating becomes extremely important. Secondly, you can justify the penalty by simply observing what happens in real democracies. In the US if the houses are a different party than the President things tend to run pretty inefficiently.