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Ship combat in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Sometimes I get 3D realtime ship combat to watch. Sometimes combat just resolves on the map screen in old fashioned Civ style. Seems to be random as to which happens. What's going on?

First impressions and getting started in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Hi folks - I picked up the basic GalCiv II in Stardock's sale this weekend. My first impressions are possibly somewhat tainted by being a die-hard Master of Orion 2 player, and comparisons are inevitable. Still, I don't think I'm getting into it properly yet so I'm appealing as a n00b for some pointers. So far I've been playing on basically default settings with a large galaxy. There are not a lot of inhabitable planets - I guess this is because by default the inhabitable planets sett