TrashMan

Heh...where to begin While your allies can fight the read lords they are mostly useless... Firstly, they havea tendency of colonozing every available planet in the vicinity, forming a ring around you at the very begining of the mission nad preventing your expansion...Researching tech takes A FRIGGIN LOT when you only have 2 planets to work with...not to mention that your allies, to whom you graciously give tech and money to keep them alive, never give you any tech back. <br

They can be usefull.. Actually, I mostly use smaller ships. I make strike forces of heavy fighters (nano rippers and disruptors with those 6 points shields) that simply tear the enemy to shreads

Strange...whenever I play a game (usually with 7-8 opponents) I'm having a hard time surviving. Despite the fact that I make my race very creative and research orianted, and that I prioritize research and build labs (researching their upgrades as fast as I can), the AI race ALLWAYS have more tech than me..a lot more.. It's like they started with more techs than me..

Upgrade costs are redicolously high. It costs me far more to upgrade the ship than to build it! I mena, upgrading my heavy fighter (which costs 168bc) cost me far more then that. More then ALL of my trade routes COMBINED can bring in in a MONTH. Talk about nonsense...

Yeah..I kinda miss that too

There are a lot of games out there that had both strategic AND tactical combat - and were very sucesfull...like Birth of hte Federation..the Total War series.. Catering to a bigger player base is a smart thing, and frankly, if you don't know how to use a game aspect effectivly, you don't have to use it. The trick is to add enough option to hte combat to gtive player some influence, while at the same time making those options simple and limited enough that a AI can be scripted to use t

* long reply * Ups...sorry about the multiple post.. On my end I kept getting some error and my post didn't show up, so I thought it didn't come trough..guess I was wrong. Now to adress the issues: 1. I don't see what's wrong with tactical combat. It's a FUN and STRATEGIC thing. Jsut becouse you (or some

I enjoy playing GalCiv2 so far, but there are some aspect where it could preform much better. Let's start: 1. SHIP COMBAT - the ability to have some degree of control over the battle (could be researched - like Remote Field Command tech). Something like in Birth of the Federation. Basicly you can select a single ship, all ships of the same class or a group of ships that fit the same category (command ship, scouts, fast attack ships, assault ships, non-combat..) a

I enjoy playing GalCiv2 so far, but there are some aspect where it could preform much better. Let's start: 1. SHIP COMBAT - the ability to have some degree of control over the battle (could be researched - like Remote Field Command tech). Something like in Birth of the Federation. Basicly you can select a single ship, all ships of the same class or a group of ships that fit the same category (command ship, scouts, fast attack ships, assault ships, non-comba

I enjoy playing GalCiv2 so far, but there are some aspect where it could preform much better. Let's start: 1. SHIP COMBAT - the ability to have some degree of control over the battle (could be researched - like remothe field command tech). Something like in Birth of the Federation. Basicly you cna select a single ship, all ships of the same class or a group of ships that fit the same category (command ship, scouts, fast