Easy - drain the oceans and build lots of high rise towers In my experience anything over 20b people just becomes too much of a headache to do anything with, but then by the time I have planets that large I'm usually prosecuting wars that need a healthy supply of troops so the problem doesn't persist for too long.
I'm managing to read Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon" (all 913 pages of it) whilst also playing Galciv, so I think it might just be personal weakness on your part CitizenJonnyEntropy
I followed the anti-aliasing tip and it worked, thanks all! I find it hard to think of a geforce 5200 128 mb card as "low end", though.
Lots of the in game media and videos (tutorials, in game movies but not the main intoduction) stutter really badly. They play in chunks of three seconds, freeze and play again. The tutorial audio is like listening to someone stopping and starting talking. I've updated all my drivers and I have a respectable system (3ghz pentium 4 processor, 2 gig of ram, 128mb geforce video card, windows xp) so not sure what the problem is and can't find any
