Admittedly, I didn't give it much of a chance, but Galactic Civilizations II didn't do much for me.
Maybe one of these days I'll give it a longer trial.
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The 3d took away some of the charm of GalCiv 1, and I wasn't entirely a big fan of having the planets right out on the map instead of being handled like MoO2, but I liked that when you were pounding on an enemy, instead of just dying, they could cede control of their territory to another player to thwart your conquest.