EmperorDale

Elleron, thank you very much for the reply! I'm glad there is an option for that and thank you for pointing it out. I will change that and see how that works for me.

[quote]But then who are you buying the ships FROM? [/quote] I'm a newbie, but I looked at this as buying the ship's from the private sector, i.e. Boeing or Rockwell Collins. You can even issue bonds and buy the ships with future debt attached to them, i.e. the other options with a lower initial cost but with costs each turn for a specified number of turns. When you build it, I'm assuming that you have a government which owns the means of production. Of course this is also an e

I have a question regarding upgrading ships. When you click on a ship, such as the scout, and then click on upgrade, why do you only see the scout's hull? I think it would be better if you could see what the scout currently had. This way you could simply take off components you've improved upon and replace them with the newer ones, e.g. if I've only improved the weapon technology but everything else is constant, then I only want to replace the weapon. Instead, I have to rememb

Thanks for the replies. The AI in GalCivI for the inteligence level wasn't smart enough to do some of the things you mentioned in your posts. GalCivII is a definite improvement over the first edition based on the demo version I've played. I went ahead and purchased it yesterday afternoon and played until 3 this morning. Now if I can just figure out how to design ships. Thanks.

I had a long Thanksgiving weekend ahead of me and I loaded GalCivI Ultimate. I had played the demo from online of GalCivII and didn't realize I had GalCivI so I was surprised because the interface looked different. I decided to go ahead and play and was doing okay until the Altairians declared war on the Torians. I didn't want to break my Alliance with the Altairians so I joined in, only to have the Torians land Battle Transports on Sol and the nearby planet. I was able to take them back but I w