BurlSifu

Ah, ok. I guess I'm used to them moving at the beginning, or at least before the end of my turn (such as in Civ4). Thank you very much for the response.

Well, the reason for my confusion is that it's not the same. It's not as if I got one CD for GalCiv2:Dread Lords and one CD for Dark Avatar. I have two CDs, but it's just a single install (halfway through the install it asks you to put in the second CD, just to copy over more files). In fact, when you put in the first CD with autorun turned on, the autorun screen is "Dark Avatar". So, Gold is not exactly that I got both together in the box, because that for me would be one CD labeled

Well, again, the issue is that I have GalCiv2 Gold, not just GalCiv2 + the Dark Avatar expansion, so I'm confused as to whether or not I should patch GalCiv2, or if the the Dark Avatar patch will take care of that.

Yet another newbie question: I own GalCiv2 Gold and Twilight of the Arnor. When I install GalCiv2 Gold and then go to Stardock Central to patch it, should I just run the patch for Dark Avatar, or should I also run the patch for GalCiv2? Also, on my current installation of the game, I first installed GalCiv2 Gold, and then installed Twilight of the Arnor from Stardock Central. I then updated Twilight to patch it. When I tried to run Twilight, I got an error me

Is autopilot broken? As I was playing last night, it certainly seemed that often times, immediately after giving a move order to a ship for a location more than a turn's distance away, that they wouldn't move on the next turn. The turn after that next turn, they moved just fine. Anyone know what's going on?

I completely agree; I also don't like this. I was really happy when Civ4 came out to see that production points *do* carry over to the next item, as do research points. While it's not necessarily the most "realistic", it does, as you mentioned, heavily cut down on micro-management while not being wasted.

There's an icon in this game that confuses me because I have no idea what it represents. It looks like a filled-in circle, in parentheses, with an arrow pointing downwards below the filled-in circle. This entire icon is in a circle (not filled-in). You can see this icon when you start up a new game, click on your home planet, and look at the image of the planet, where the "View" button is. It's in the top right of that small, square, planet image. Thanks in