JFuqua

Thanks for the help everyone, the info was exactly what I was looking for.

I'm an avid fan and player of masters of orion 2, which uses population to support the population, produce and research in conjunction with colony improvements. In GalCiv it doesn't seem to work that way, it seems like a factory provides x pu that go towards making things and the amount of population doesn't matter in that sense. In fact from rereading the manual, and such it seems population only potentially gives you more taxes and influence, is this accurate? In my game play so far which h

I'm new to the game so this may be a ignorant comment, but could you possibly reclaim colony spaces for other things (i.e. rather than 2 farm for 4 1 farm for 4)?