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[quote who="Sole Soul" reply="6" id="1934019"] These are certainly worth consideration for GCIII, but I doubt at this late point in GCII's life that any such major change will be forthcoming. [/quote] Yeah I figured that was the case, but given that these are the official boards, which is likely about as close as I'm going to get to the stardock developers, I might as well make my voice heard :). I also take your point about planet based maintanance costs. I gu

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[quote who="Marvin Kosh" reply="2" id="1932064"] 7) You can change your username by clicking My Account at the top of the page there, then choose the Login tab.[/quote] This was what I wanted to avoid. You should be able to post under your metaverse nickname IMO.

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Thank you both for your responses. When I said I out expanded every other civ, I did mean individually. I ended up nearly twice the size of my nearest opponent. My starting layout was average and I did not reroll the map to get a favourable start. I was quickly out-producing and out-researching all of my opponents. I will have to start a metaverse game soon on a tougher difficulty. I am enjoying this game immensely however from what I am gathering there

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Just a follow up - I just finished the gigantic map game. 42000 points and alas I cannot submit to the metaverse because I was not logged in when I created it. Oh well never mind, there's always the next game.

New player/game mechanics questions in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Hi there everyone, I played the original galciv to death (for a while, under my old psuedonym I was ranked 4th for neutral players on the metaverse and was top 50 for good/evil) and loved it despite its flaws. I eventually stopped playing though as it was just too easy to win on masochistic difficulty and it had some flaws which annoyed me a great amount. I finally got around to buying galciv 2 and picked up dread lords + both expansions. I am enjoying this game immensely,