Thank you all for your answers That helps immensly.
Manty5
In fact, the amount of control you have might be dependant on your governmental or economic form. Capitalisms/democracies would have more total research points, but they'd spread them out more. Totalarianims/Command economies would have fine control over the exact tech, but less points. Ideally it would work out so that you'd get a few extra minor techs as a democracy, but possibly progress slower along your chosen route. To avoid the problem of getting useless points spread all over the pla
I played Galciv 1, was impressed with most of the game and the reviewers seem to like GC2 a lot, but I want to know a specific thing before deciding on buying /demoing galciv 2. One of my pet peeves in Galciv 1 was how the population got *extremely* restless as the total grew. Nothing helped for long - you could blow your entire budget on social techs (while the enemy carved you up) and you still could't progress beyond the 2nd govenmental form without the entire civilization collaps