Tarkulu

Reply to Core Ships - Only Beam Ships and even then not all in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Thanks to you both for the clarification. I am going to play the campaign for awhile so this definitely helps. But now I have two new questions. For custom ships, do components ie weapons auto-upgrade as it does for the core ships? I should clarify about the engines, what I mean is that I don't see my speed improving as I add or improve engines. It seems that the same distance is being generally covered each turn is the same no matter the engine specs.

Core Ships - Only Beam Ships and even then not all in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

So I have been playing around with game, even played an AI game to get a better handle on the tech tree and the ship improvement process on cakewalk levels. I researched all the weapon techs but for some reason no ships other than beam weapons based ships get built out, for example once I research the small hulls, only the phoenix and defender gets built out despite I have completed the prerequisites for the missile (so no cruisers) and mass driver (and no thunders). I also notice