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Reply to GalCiv IV Dev Journal #122: Choosing Your Starting Government? in GalCiv IV Dev Journals Stardock Forums

DST1348's point about picking before you have seen the map is the one I keep coming back to as well, though I land somewhere slightly different on it. Committing at the start only bothers me when the commitment is invisible. If I choose a government in the first ten turns I am guessing at the galaxy, and a guess made with no information is not really a decision, it is a coin flip I have to live with for two hundred turns. That is the part that grates. Whether the fix is unlocking thro

Planets in GalCiv II felt like places in Galactic Civilizations IV GalCiv4 Forums

Something I keep missing from GalCiv II is how much the game actually told you about a planet. You'd survey something and there would be real description attached to it, a bit of history or some detail about what was down there, and it gave the place character before you ever dropped a colony ship. Half the time I'd remember a planet from a previous game because of what it was, not because it was a class 14. GalCiv IV has plenty going on with planet features and improvements and I'm no