There is no direct mining for BC (money) in GCIII but you can mine econ relics, which increase your gross income. Tourist income may be a new source of credits in GCIII. I don't recall if it was in II.

I understood your first suggestion was to have an improvement hex that represented gold or some other commodity that you could build an improvement on and get a per turn return. Not a bad idea, but it is not in the game per sec, and it will not make it this go around.

LOL, your second idea is, if I understand correctly, to reward you for making an evil decision and penalize you for taking the goody two shoes option. It doesn't work exactly like that, but I think you will like the ideology feature in GCIII.

I have seen your third idea before and I get it, It is likely that we would have surveyed the planet and would be aware of most benefits before colonizing. The way I see it is, the bonus tiles are indeed a nice surprise when you colonize a planet, but they actually have little to do with my decision to colonize the planet. My decision, and the way most strategize, is based purely on the planet quality. In GCII I never colonized a planet with less than 8 PQ. I would leave it for the AI and flip it later. It is a little different in III with the way shipyards work, but the planet is still the thing and I would never pass up a nice planet because it didn't have enough bonus hexes. That's just my opinion and as I said I have known others that wanted a peek.

You are going to like GCIII. I hope you get it soon.

The ideology feature in GCIII does give rewards (and some penalties) in all three categories, It is quite different from the GCII system and I think you will enjoy it.

Okay, I had forgotten that tourist income was in II. It has been forever since I have played.

I thought civilization was better at this to, but to be honest this is a moot point. For the most part requiring cities to raise income through resources was the intent of civilization. In Galactic civilizations, and most R.P.G.'s the idea is different it is done primarily through taxes. I think including this way may throw off the game. Maybe instead trade able goods.

I agree that there could be three different benefits that are relatively equal to each other. The new way is good will be about equal to evil while neutral will be less. Only time will tell how well this will be implemented. If neutral is weaker I will be complaining in four. So they are attempting to fix this.

Under our current technology all we could do is find the best colony placement. Your idea seems a little unrealistic, but who knows maybe in the future we can do this.

I guess it is really good for you they just patched the game. As far as Galactic civilizations you can't call a game buggy until it is done. Remember the real intent of this game is to be an upgrade to Galactic civilizations 2.