I have only found the civilization manager with hot key (6)

The descriptions of the Point Defense defensive techs are long enough that you can't see the effectiveness of the component before you add it.

Didn't get the chance to try a lot of things, but I had something "funny":

The ship construction window didn't close. Apparently, almost all visible controls were working, but I couldn't use "done" or "save" or leave the window in any other way. I could however pull up some info windows like ship- or planet list over the construction window, and when I pulled up the contect area, it went up behind the construction window. It almost seemed to me as if the game had forgotten about the window completely and thus couldn't remove it.

A little wishlist thingy: when creating a game, the dialogs are centered on screen, but the Next / Cancel / Whatever buttons are way off at the bottom of the screen, which at least at high resolutions (I'm at 1600x1200) makes it rather inconvenient to hunt for them. I'd rather like them grouped with the dialog windows themselves.

Mouse and scroll speed seem to be awfully slow, even when set way up.

In some cases (planet overview, ship construction), the preview windows with little spinning 3D-representations are spinning *way* too fast.

Ship construction: it is somewhat fiddly. (1) the icons of added systems should make it obvious where a selected system is mounted, e.g. by rotating the ship model and flashing the system in question in red. (2) There should be an option of recursively removing systems. I built an awful mess of girder structures which were really hard to remove, it would've been nice to just select the "root" structure and have all child nodes removed after a warning message.

1. Had the same problem with frozen shipbuilding window.
2. Also had several CDT after I would repeatedly start new game from the main menu ( I’m not positive but I think that magic number is three). I am positive though that I had similar problems with earlier versions.
3. When I tried to upgrade colony ship while playing as Custom race with Calamari ship style adding impulse engine I got the message:

‘Selected component is to big to fit on ship design’

Although I had 13 available size points (42/55, I had basic miniaturization researched) and the impulse drive engine takes only 12. I got the same message when I tried to add Ion drive engine that requires even less space (10).

4. In couple of occasions in the window with available ship designs I had the list of the ship designs of all the civilizations and I could select them for building. I.e. I could build ship named 4YorCollective.

5. After I started the game just to check what ship style I was using (for this report) and closed it without actually starting the real game I was not able to restart the game neither by clicking on Icon or trying run it from Stardock. When I tried ‘run as’ I got the message:

‘The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000022)…

6. Yor Collective woted ‘yes’ for the resolution that asked for the Yor Collective to pay 2% of their income to other civilizations.

7. I was informed that I’m at war with Torian race only through an declaration of help from my ally.

8. This is not exactly a bug but it seems to me that it is possible to start a game with only one opponent and then declare opponent as the ‘ally’ (or even ‘team’)

All above happened while I was playing as Custom race, with all other races being ‘normal’

I forgot, are the Minor races really in? If they are where do you select them?

I forgot, are the Minor races really in? If they are where do you select them?

There's an option in the prefs.ini file in the /data subdirectory.

The galaxy was at peace, at least as far as the diplomacy screen was showing and then the Torians spontaneously surrendered to me. There was no dialogue box. No message. Between one turn and the next I was gifted with all their planets.

In the display of the ships in orbit around a planet my flagship icon changed to a blank square. Same background color as usual but no image of the ship. Launching the ship and bringing it back into orbit brought the icon back.

1) saved ship designs can be used even if you don't have enough miniturization to recreate them.

2) This one is hard to describe: Have a starport complete and turn up in the GNN window. Select "Go to planet." Select "go to shipyard". Select a ship. Select "Done". You are now back at the GNN window with a completely black background, and if you select "Done" in the GNN window, you wind up back at the planet screen for the planet that completed the starport. In cases where I have two starports complete at the same time, things get even more confusing.

3) It leaves a colony ship/constructor selected after you use that ship to found a colony/build a starbase, resulting in some confusing displays at times.

4) I still have a 2 minute (est) pause when starting the game, regardless of how I start it, before the main GC2 menu opens. During this time, the disk drive is idle and Task Manager reports that the total CPU usage is floating between 0 and 2% (there's an initial 7% spike that lasts a second when I first launch GC2). Also during this time, GC2 shows up as a process but not an application, though I assume that's just because it hasn't openned a window. Is there anything I can provide to help you figure this one out? The only thing I can figure out is the debug log of me starting GC2 then immediately exiting, and maybe the system config output of a smart exception report. I've installed GC2 on 3 computers so far, and this is only occuring on my primary game machine, which makes this even more frustrating.

5) (already reported above, just confirming it): I'm not getting the "do you want to switch to this new form of government" popups either.

when I start a new game, available previously designed ships are sometines in the "core" category and sometimes without anything displayed (like when upgrading) For testing purposing I was playing as Thalan, have designed new colony ships at turn 1 and playing with metaverse and non metaverse games

After more testings, I think I have found the culprit: Metaverse games handle custom designed ships in a different way than normal games: you have the icon but nothing is loaded for metaverse game, even if the ship was created in another metaverse game.
But normal games loads and display the ships correctly.

So I think there are 2 bugs on this problem:
- displaying unusable ships
- unable to use in metaverse design from another metaverse game.

The alliance system makes for constant war.You get peace with a civ, only for him to declare war the next turn because your at war with his allies.It seems a bit daft, i would like to see an enforced peace treaty that last 20+ turns.Peace should mean peace.

The manufacturing bonus title doesn't work: building a factory on a lightning title has no visible effect

The alliance system makes for constant war.You get peace with a civ, only for him to declare war the next turn because your at war with his allies.It seems a bit daft, i would like to see an enforced peace treaty that last 20+ turns.Peace should mean peace.

Well, Galciv II works like Galciv I for that aspect of alliance. you need to be very careful about alliances and war.

I don't get my money back if I have nothing to build in the queue (ie I am waisting BC). The economy screen in the domestic policy show me the money I should spend on social. It correspond to the social production of my planets but one is building nothing. And when the turn is processed, the treasury change was in accordance with the economy screen.

In short, it works like GCI.

The screen came up telling me I had just encountered the Humans. I clicked on the button to Speak to them. Instead it took me to the GNN news screen. So I clicked on the button to Go to Planet and it took me to the Trade screen with the Humans.