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[quote who="Gaunathor" reply="8" id="3459317"] Quoting Branoic, reply 7 I know its been raised before, but the area of useable tiles not matching up with the geographic representation of planets. Eg capital cities floating in the ocea, prairies appearing in the polar regions etc. I guess that the bit of programme which assigns random usable tiles to a planet is seperate to the programming which generates the planet's actual terrain map, but if there was some wa

[quote who="androshalforc" reply="4" id="3459262"] ensure that star names at least seemed plausible Littlebear http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursa_Minor at least one of your silly star names is an actual star name so how do you define what is silly or not [/quote] Ha, yeah, I knew someone would find something like that! Of course, there are some real life silly names, and as you say, its a subjective area, but still, I t

[quote who="Achronous" reply="1" id="3459205"] The double beep sound I thought signified the end of turn. [/quote] Yeah I thought it might, but i'm sure i've heard it more than once per turn.

Hi Stardock and forumites. I’ve played a couple of alpha games now and wanted to share some thoughts and ask some questions. But first – a little background so you know where I’m coming from. I’ve been a 4X fan for decades, back to the original Civ, MOO etc. I’ve played GalCiv 1 & 2 and I regards GalCiv2 as my favourite 4X game of all time, I’ve put hundreds of hours in to it. I’m also very familiar with alpha games – I&rsquo