hi. i am getting problems when i install galciv 2 ultimate edition. i can not disable races or edit races or change the number of races. i also can not change which race i play as, and my ships have transparent areas on them that should be solid. does anyone have a clue whats going wrong, whatever the issue is it is totally ruining my experience of this classic game. thanks....

I can play for a while, but then, inevitably, game crashes. It may be any point, waiting for next turn, choosing research or a building. It seems I have to quicksave every turn, the game became unplayable. I enjoyed it back in a day, but now I can't. About four crashes an hour....

I've looked this up before and found something, but I can't find it this time. The Korath just built it and was wondering if it affects my efforts to flip all his planet using culture. All I could find was an old change log here on steam by the devs that changed it from a building to a wonder. On the Fandom wiki it mentions a propaganda center that adds 10% loyalty, is this what they turned into a wonder? If that's all it does then it's not such a big deal, just adds a bit of wait time. I've never actu...

An example: I just flipped a planet from the humans. They have old Xeno Factories. I told the colony to upgrade several of them to the latest Industrial Sectors. The number of turns to build those factories ranges from 7 to 9 turns. I check this this by moving each of them to first place in the construction queue. Or another way to test it, if I click the buy button the cost ranges from 1341 to 1804. It's all starting with the same building being upgraded to the same building. None of the squares have the...

It kind of kills the game... I've been playing on tough difficulty and the AI's tend to just go to war with each other right away and spend the rest of the game researching whatever weapon is trendy and they don't actually make progress anywhere else in the tech tree. It makes it super easy to outpace them with basic economy techs. Is there some way to get them to hold off on the wars for a while? I remember it taking them a lot longer to fight when I played on the easier difficulties....