DireFog

For civilization types, see here: (ARGH! How do link tags work? The JScript stuff is broken and the url tags seem to end URLs un underscores! Just search Wikipedia for "Kardashev scale"). Basically, it's a scheme to classify how advanced a civilization is based on how good it is at mutilating space-time and expanding through the universe. Currently, we are awy pre-Type-I. Having a Dyson sphere in the classical sense would make expansion somewhat useless since you'd get an inhabitable su

So what did happen to all the females in the future? Did they get tired of the males wasting their time with pointless video games and sports broadcasts? Maybe they relocated to a universe where the guys are more interested in fashion and romance? Maybe they became the Drengin?

Of course you'd see what you think they have or what they're ready to trade. Yes, I see the problem too. To make this system work properly, you'd have to achieve a rather high intel level for efficient technology trading and/or have the player choose what to show to others. As ist is now (in GC1), it's a very rough version of the "know all" system. You can get knowledge about the other races by just having a look at the trade lists and your own tech list. It

IMO, this should be made an effect of intelligence. If you have an appropriate intel level on another race, there'd be nothing to say against displaying that info in the research info in something like a field in the tech info screen or a tooltip displaying races that have it, races that don't have it and races we don't know zilch about. It could be a simple list with races listed in green (have it), "standard text color" (don't have it) and something darker (don't k