Used to be? Does that mean it doesn't work any more?

Nah, I dont wanna mess around with cheats, but thanks for the info.

What a shame really. Oh, and about being to big/complex for MP: Go tell that to the Moo2 and Civilization makers *G*  I just loved playing those games with my friends. We still play Age of Wonders from time to time, but its so worn out... I ve been searching for that kind of game for ages, then I found "Space Empires 5". The MP mode is so cumbersome and unhandy that I regret having bought it...  

Well, maybe one day a dev will hear the call

cheers

This is true and a game that should be in every gamer who loves the genres collection.  Absolutely great multiplayer and single player as well.  AI Wars was also designed for co-op multiplay from the ground up and is a load of fun!!

I personally don't think GalCiv2 would work well with the current mechanic as a multiplayer game.  In order for it to be a multiplayer game, turns would need to be simultaneous, which would require reworking unit movement in some fashion.  I wouldn't want it handled the same way Civ5 is handled where unit movement is processed by whoever clicks the fastest.  The best example I can give as far how simultaneous movement should work would be Conquest of the New World.  Turns were completed simultaneously and then orders were processed depending on the unit order.  I think attacks were processed first, and then movement.  So units given "attack orders" would have their moves executed before "movement orders".  Now GalCiv2 is a single player game, and you knew that going into it.  But I do have hopes that GalCiv3 will be multiplayer and work in a fashion that makes sense in a multiplayer turned-based game.