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Combining Sins engine with GalCiv II in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I enjoy both GalCiv II and Sins of a Solar Empire greatly. I was thinking how cool it would be to replace the battle view in GalCiv II with a Sins engine, so that you could enjoy the best of a turn based game with the ability to make custom ships with the incredible battle engine of Sins. I like the graphics in Sins much better as well as the ability to control some of the battle. I realize that the two engines are different, but I did not know if there was a way to integrat

Creating special resources on planets in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

When editing maps, does anyone know how to add special resources to a planet. For instance, adding a pre-cursor mine to a planet. I am interested in making an uber planet on a map much like Orion in MOO. I do have a good idea on how to make custom maps and how to increase the quality of planets and so forth. I am just having trouble figuring out the special planetary resources. I figure there is and XML tag for those things, but I do not