Hey all, i recently got the Ultimate edition (updated to 2.01) of GalCiv2. So far i've played about 5 games and have been learning everything as i play or as i scan through these forums (which are quite helpful and there's a nice atmosphere here, quite cool.) I'm usually a quick learner, my latest game is on Painful, Large, 6 races and i've just finished everyone except 2 races off (i coerced these 2 into a war to keep them busy while i tidied up the rest of the galaxy )

Since i'm learning everything by doing, whatever i haven't done i don't really know. For example, ship defence. How does it work? If my ship has 5 defence and the attacker has 10 attack, is his attack limited to 5? I put some defence on my ships during a game (don't worry: it was the correct type of defence for my opponent's weapons) and i didn't really notice any damage reduction compared to the ships that had no defence. So i've been using ships that concentrate on attack and HP which seems to work well compared to the AI's ships.

Also the mega events. I leave them on for some added randomness, but i think the only one i've experienced is the Dread Lords. They came as i was on the verge of destroying the last enemy race in one of my game, so by this time my territory had spread to the far corners of the galaxy, yet i couldn't see them anywhere. After i destroyed the last race i didn't win the game immediately, it said the Dread Lords were still out there (so i assumed i had to finish them off to finish the game) but i couldn't find them anywhere, and all they did was send one transport ship (apparently, i didn't see it on my map until they invaded) and tried unsuccessfully to invade one of my planets. So do they have invisible ships or something? Cause if so, i want some of that shizzle!

I can't really think of anything else at the moment, but if i do i'll stop by again. Thanks in advance for any help