Yes, not that EASY to achieve. The person I was quoting said there was no way.

If you get all the galactic achievements/trade goods that increase morale and have the best morale buildings plus perhaps some tech from other species that increases happiness, it is possible to have a large population, high morale and high tax rates. And playing at cakewalk level makes that all easy to achieve

Please define first what you consider those to be.

If you consider a population of 20b to be high, then that is perfectly achievable. WIllythemailboy, however, was talking about a population of 32.2b in his post.

I consider an approval value of 75%+, and a tax rate of 69%+ to be high.

A tax rate of 69% reduces morale by 96%. In order to keep an approval rating of 75%+, you need to have a rating of at least 171% before the tax penalty gets applied. On a high-PQ world with a population of 32b+, your morale bonus therefore needs to be at least 1510%. If it is a low- or mid-PQ planet, your morale bonus needs to be at least 1610%.

You can get your Morale ability to about 147% via racial techs and Trade Goods, if I'm not mistaken. Add in another 20% via race customisation. With six fully decked out Mining starbases, you can get another 234% (360%, if your playing the Thalan and have all factory techs). In total, that's 401% (527% for the Thalan). You still need another 1109% (983% for the Thalan). That's about 23 Torian Hot Springs (20 for the Thalan).

Considering that one tiles gets used up by the Initial Colony, and you need at least four Intensive Farming improvements to get a population of 32b, the min-PQ required for those planets is 28. Good luck finding many of those. However, this is also a big waste of money, because, if you're able to keep 32b happy, you could go all the way to 100b. The base approval doesn't change once you've reached 25b. However, finding a planet with a high enough PQ to do this is pretty unrealistic.

I thought, we are talking about actually playing the game, not just fooling around.

Become a founder elite then you can add 1 star of your choosing. 

I know that is why I am one

Would like to know if you could center the UI for Multi monitor setups, have an eyefinity 5760x1080 setup love it though very few games support it. the biggest problem with it most of the time is the UI is all the way of to the side of the screens, mostly play games in window if i can because of that. would be even better if you could customize the UI to a large extent.

I'll be honest, I like the minimap of GC2 Beta better than the GC2 one...

I agree with you there. Ah well too late for that. The GalCiv3 Ui looks amazing. 

I'd like to see GalCiv III to support 4K displays in a meaningful way.

Hmm. Not one question regarding the Find button.

Is that the fourth tab in the colony list box? The exclamation point in a circle thing? I speculated that it might be an event tracker or something in reply #19. Or is it possibly the tab next to that with a list type icon?

There's no button explicitly marked "Find", otherwise we'd be all over that

Wow, totally wasn't looking for things that should be there but aren't.

There must be another feature that will serve the same purpose, otherwise we'll be misplacing fleets faster than change vanishes into a couch.

BTW, Master of Orion and GalCiv came out at around the same time back in the early 90s.

Here's what MOO 1 looked like:

Note that this isn't a thumbnail. That's actual size.

The GalCiv image from above had to be shrunk to fit on the page.  That's because it was 1024x768x24bit color while DOS games were 320x200x256.

Ah, OS/2.  As a gaming platform in 1993, it was so so far ahead. It's a shame IBM didn't know how to market it.

I think the constraints MOO had to work with for hardware forced them into making an interface that was streamlined. It's easy to over-design a UI just like it is to leave out critical info. The new Gal Civ 3 screens seem to be striking a good balance, especially if the UI scales somewhat.

This hasn't been mentioned yet, but will there be the ability to toggle graphical overlay info easily? I know some of those things have been in the Options, but I'm thinking of SimCity where you could easily switch on and off info that's meaningful. I really like that presentation of info instead of burying those options in Settings.