Kinjiru

I love it. Shoot, even add a way you can send ships on discovery missions outside of the galaxy and they return in X time with results.

On the flipside, the more techs you have (regardless of how you get them) the more research costs for successive techs. So in this respect getting a lower end tech you don't feel you need can be additionally detrimental, and it's not as if you can "refuse" the tech theft when it comes up. But all in all I don't have a problem with how it works, either.

Thanks for the feedback. By the way, my medals also don't show and I tried the default button but it seemed to do nothing (I only have one character, too).

I just have to take a moment to sound off on a pet peeve, so in advance, forgive the rant. When you start new game, placement of planets is so utterly random that it takes a lot of the strategy of the game out and makes it much more a game of luck - or a game of new games. Often I'll get stuck in a corner with a few inhabitable worlds while half the other civs have a plethora of planets. Or, I'll get a so-so selection of planets bound tigh