The internets kind of force you to be a drama queen to get your opinion heard though, in fact I picture most people on the internet as dressing up in drag while they type. (Not me though, I don my finest smoking jacket and light up a pipe to gain insight +1)

If a steak doesn't bleed and go "MOO!" everytime I sink a fork into her, it isn't a steak...

Ok, if I don't get a steak today I'm literally going to die.

Come on DARCA,

changing a few techs might be even fun. I will help you getting started:

1) Magical Orientation: New building Magic Screening Center, investigate and identifies the magical inclined members of the population, happiness +5%;

which leads to

2) Magic Research Centers: New building Magical Research Institute, allows magical inclined members of the population to take a fresh look at hard research problems, research luck +1 (increases change of spontaneous completing a tech research);

which in turn leads to

3) Final Magical Proof: Which leads to the insight magic does not exist and that the populus are gullible fools and are easily deceived. This insight generates extra income for the governmental elite. Also the population is happier thinking that the magical gifted are an asset to society instead of knowing that they are raving dangerous madmen who occasionally have a flash of technological genius, but are most of the time the reason for research projects going off track. And keeping the people unenlightened makes them docile and more productive. Planetary income -10%, Research -10%, Production + 5%, and Happiness +5%

magnet is an abbreviation of MAGic does Not ExisT. So their name is a hint to the fact that how you believe they work is a delusion. The reality is that the producers of them glue millions of microscopic demons to the surface of the so called magnets. These little demons really like iron, so when that gets near they simply try to hold on to it as close and as long as they can. It is the same as the way dragons like gold, but because of their size and violent nature they are quite hard to glue to any surface at all. Fact is that this lie 'Magnetic force is a natural occurring phenomenon' is perpetuated by the industrial moguls, because they fear public outcry about the cruelty towards the poor harmless demonmites.

Hah, you thought i could not explain how magnets work, but i could. I do know their secret, now you and the rest of the world also know the heinous truth.

Hmmm...i did some tech descriptions for the new galciv2 update in the works and it was challenging. Its one thing to let my imagination go wild and creative, ideas just come then. But having to go with a unfamiliar concept and try keeping it lore friendly to the original and interesting was a greater difficultly that I thought. There will also be hundreds of techs filled with humor in galciv3 in them and it takes time to edit all that...time I'd rather have as of recent.

I admire the devs when they write all the descriptions, even when they suck I know how difficult it was to come up with stuff that sounds good.

DARCA. ;- )

People just play and get into their games a bit differently than you do I guess. However, just because this game is not based on reality doesn't mean people can't get into it. In fact, most of the games out there are imaginary/fictional and people will complain about things that they feel messes with their personal immersion. 

+2cents.

To clarify my feeling... Doesn't ruin the game, but cheapens it. I still enjoy playing. I am sharing my view that small details can really make a game feel more polished. They've put a lot of time and energy into art direction and creating a back story and setting, only to add a random element of user named stars into it that brings me "back to earth."

Agreed.

I agree take the jokes out or at least tone it down .  They over did this in GalCiv2. And most of the jokes were simply not funny.

As far as the Star names go yes I can see these stupid names becoming irritating.  Yes having a toggle to turn founder names off or even clicking on a stars name and select "Never use Name" so that you can keep some names that are good but removing the stupid ones would be good.

Will there be a way to mod star names in the game?

I agree that the game has way too many jokes and I would like to see it pared back. I haven't laugh, giggled, or even smiled at any of them, maybe even groaned at one or two of them. If I was actually amused by the humor, then maybe I would argue to keep them in. However, I'm not and I agree with a previous poster who said it made the game feel amateurish, which is sad because the intro video and most of the game come across as really polished.

I guess in the future when my virtual politicians and virtual generals are discussing a war that will result in the loss of millions or billions of virtual beings, nothing breaks the ice like a bad joke -> Why did the Dregin cross the galaxy? To get to the other side. HAHAHAHAHAHA

I giggled when I got the "Infinite Shades of Infra-red" galactic event..