I'm on my second game now in beta 4B with a Large galaxy and occassional planets/habitable and I'm sure minor civs are enabled (i.e. the "Disable Minor Races" is NOT checked) but there's no minors anywhere to be found. Anyone else experiencing this?
The social project time estimates are still completely broken when social points are or recently were being converted to military. I either get "Never" or extremely long inaccurate times (a couple hundred weeks when it really takes 10, etc). Exiting and re-entering the colony screen for that planet fixes the estimates, but I think this is going to be a huge newbie confusion issue if it makes it into the final version.
I have, but it was at the very end of the game, and I was winning culturally not by conquest so it meant absolutely nothing
+ Fixed Ship Design Upgrade button so that it removes all but the hull and jewelry. I might be in the minority, but I hate this. When I hit "Upgrade", I almost always want the same ship I started with, only with the latest versions of whatever was on before. Now I have to remember what those things ar
