Is there some kind of game guide?

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I expected some kind of optional tutorial when I started playing. With me not playing the previous GalCiv games, I'm not really familiar with how they work. I've been playing and picking things up as I go along, but doing this makes me feel as though I could be over looking important aspects of the game since there's quite a lot to it.

I seem to be doing okay so far with only a couple of problems like not knowing how to take over a planet that belongs to a different civilization, and I don't really know why resource mining is important. Is there some kind of gameplay tutorial or should I just jeep trying to progress and I should come across everything I need eventually?

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

There will be a tutorial-type feature when the game is near release.  Right now it's a beta so it's not in.

 

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Hello para50,

The reason for mining resources is to give your empire/side bonuses to skills/atttributes and boosts to production/manufacturing/wealth creation.I dont play GC3 yet but have played alot of GC2 and their addons.In GC2 you'd have to research "planetary invasion" to get access to a ship called a "Transport" you could then build build them at your shipyard and load them up with troops (drawn from your population) then once you've destroyed all the ships in orbit you could send in your transport and invade the planet you would then go to the invasion screen and depending on which type of attack bonus you chose then a ground battle would commence (if you have enough troops and a high enough advantage over the natives?) your invasion would suceed and the planet would be yours.

Hope this helps :grin:

PS you probably have to be in the tech era -age of war to be able to research planetary invasion?

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Echelion, reply 2

Hello para50,

The reason for mining resources is to give your empire/side bonuses to skills/atttributes and boosts to production/manufacturing/wealth creation.I dont play GC3 yet but have played alot of GC2 and their addons.In GC2 you'd have to research "planetary invasion" to get access to a ship called a "Transport" you could then build build them at your shipyard and load them up with troops (drawn from your population) then once you've destroyed all the ships in orbit you could send in your transport and invade the planet you would then go to the invasion screen and depending on which type of attack bonus you chose then a ground battle would commence (if you have enough troops and a high enough advantage over the natives?) your invasion would suceed and the planet would be yours.

Hope this helps :grin:

PS you probably have to be in the tech era -age of war to be able to research planetary invasion?
End of Echelion's quote

 

I never found mining resources practical in Galciv2 because of the players long length of time to build constructors compared to the AI can churn them out like scouts and flog them all and then by the time you start getting them back, you have already managed to start dominating the game without them.... hence, irrelevant.