user_error

When I'm building say, Elon's Lift, and someone beats me to it, I should get a notification that "x race" or "unknown race" has built Elon's Lift etc. as in previous games.

This does not seem like something they'd do. If you keep it, maybe have it RAISE relations if you do nothing?

When mousing over a pirate shipyard with a small group of missile ships, the battle prediction was that I would incur a total loss and inflict moderate casualties. So I bombarded the shipyard down to low health, but it still gave the same prediction. I then outright attacked the shipyard, and destroyed it without losing a single ship. It appears that either it doesn't predict based on remaining health, or there is an error predicting after missile bombardments.

I consider myself a connoisseur of Galciv, as I began with Galactic Civilizations 1 as a Junior in college, circa 2002. I think I might have even bought it at release, though I don't recall. I was never active in the forums but I read a LOT! Remember, gosh, I think it was called The Restaurant at the End of the Universe? Maybe it was Restaurant of Eternity, a Galciv 1 Wonder. He gave screenshots and detailed descriptions of playthroughs of his masochistic (hardest difficulty) games. This was