r/GalCiv

hey folks, I have a lot of nostalgia for GalCiv from the 1 & 2 days (I loved playing 1, when 2 came out my PC sucked too much to play it… lol)

anyway recently it all came back to me (in the meantime I’ve been playing stuff like SotSE, Stellaris and Endless Space 2) and I wanna try out galciv again. My question for you is, should I go back to 1, 2 or jump into the current game? I guess my primary motivation is the nostalgia hit, but from what I can see a lot of the original identity has been retained by the later games (at least visually).

The ability to shoot on enemy from map view could use a tweak. Say typical surprise attack simulation. Mid game, enemy has wast armies who beat you one on one easily any time (I am playing godlike). Enemy is rushing core world with fleet of cruisers, bombers, fighters and troops. Count 25. You start spamming frigates, have 15 of them. In direct fight you dont make a dent. If you shoot from afar you kill probably one ship. But. If you go close, disband your fleet into separate ships (click click click). And shoot each ship separately, you will kill like 10 ships this way, usualy you get rid of fighters and bombers first. Then regroup fleet (click click click), next turn. Enemy going for core will ignore your fleet so Repeat! When you reduce enemy to so little you can attack directly. Placing 2-3 fleets of lousy frigates into bottleneck kills anything.
It is shity when attacking fleet to fleet you always kill just ONE ship.

So I haven't tried it yet, but if I read it right you lose direct control over planets when you choose Federation government, right? That seems like removing half of the game (planet puzzle), which is.... an odd choice. And unfun.

Am I wrong about this? What's your experience with the governments?

Been experiencing slowdowns in game play I never had prior to dlc- anyone else notice this?

Btw, if you're reading this and haven't gotten it- highly recommend.

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Hi all have decided to take the plunge I have just bought the game along with the warlords, megacities and federation and empires DLC installing now looking forward to jumping in :) any tips appreciated