I think the morale penalty for being at war with a species should wear off 50 to 100 turns after you finish conquering them. I defeated a civ about 200 turns ago and their citizens are still mad.

My two cents, I want to vote against this as a solution. I mean sure, more auto buttons is fine, but though I too find the colonization game early on a little tedious, I wouldn't ever trust the AI to pick the right planets, I'm too much of a control freak for that

I think a better solution (or at least my preferred additional option) would be a setting in galaxy gen where we can indicate a preference for fewer higher class worlds vs a plethora of low-class worlds, I haven't dug into the galaxy gen systems in 4 yet (and only a little in 3) but one way I've been thinking of doing it would be doing a pass after initial planet generation and 'merging' adjacent worlds below a certain threshold into one higher class world (merge two adjacent class two's into a single class four for instance)

All that said, my current strategy to combat this is, letting the AI throw colony ships at all the planets under class 4 and then capture them later with a few modestly armed ships a few turns later, has been working pretty well.

Good point, Xigageshi. The way to make that species feel peachy keen is to give that species a Free, One-Time-Only Trip Into Space On Either A Constructor To Mine That Elerium Or A Colony Ship To That Crappy PQ1 Planet! Who wouldn't jump at that chance, hey?

Another way to handle conquered moral penalty is it passes over time to the new dominant species unless you do something about it that's not just Build Fancy Stuff.

Just noticed: When choosing the same name savegames get overwritten without warning.

At 2560x1440, text doesn't fit in the game settings:

Also once I downgraded to 2560x1440 from 4k (for performance reasons), now when I go to settings, it shows UI Size as Small (HD), as expected:

...but when I hit Back, I get this:

This has been, Random Low-Priority Nonsense, with your friend Pinback.

Well, not with THAT attitude you won't!

Well, the bug might possibly work in GalCiv 4. I don't know what opportunities the alpha will bring.

I don't want to go into details, but if someone defeated you once before, then they'll be able to defeat you again. The difference the second time around would be is you would have a smaller military and fewer worlds building ships. Plus being weak invites other civs to attack you. Its a death spiral. The odds are so against you that I don't consider it worth playing.

If the devs decide to leave this bug in the game, then I would ask they make it a game option. Its not fun for me to hunt down their colony ships after I took all their planets.

Population Specialization

Does anyone know if specialized citizens gain any long term "experience" benefit? It would seem to me to be a good thing if they did - it would repay forward thinking. It's difficult to see why you would specialize in soldiers in the early game, for example, unless there were some benefit i.e. you wanted to train a cadre of the fittest, best-trained and battle ready marines from the outset (at a cost, of course, because these guys wouldn't be manufacturing or researching or whatever) Maybe long-term scientists would gain an intelligence bonus, or soldiers a resolve bonus, or does this happen already? It's really difficult to tell.

It says something that you are prepared to break the game in order to get back to something you loved doing  

Newbie here. Presently simultaneously learning GalCiv III and IV. Regarding my experience with IV though.

1. My advisors are incompetent, particularly when it comes to colonization. They recommend that I colonize XXX, but when I get there I find that the planet requires advanced colonization tech, which I don't have. This has happened with both games I have started. 
2. I hate pirates! I lost my first four colonization ships to pirate attack in one game. I'm not suggesting changing them, I think I'm starting to get better at handling them, but if there was an option of declaring a multi-species crusade against them I think you'd be overcome with others putting up their hands to join in. Alternatively a technology that focuses on allowing pirates to be identified, attacked and destroy. I think E E Doc Smith Lensmen series had this in one of the books. 
3. I'm not looking forward to facing Space Monsters. I think it would be a good option to allow them to be included or excluded depending on the players preference.
4. I quite liked the option of the Anarchist (libertarian / social) society but understand why its going.

Do colony worlds with rare resources produce them for the empire? I have one such a world right now and I would rather not turn it into a core world if I don't have to.

I'm really disliking autoturn when building starbases. It kicks in after I build the starbase but before I can add modules to it.

I would like to have another row or two to show resources. Its crowded right now.

I don't like it that my ships start to orbit planets after conquest. It takes a turn to get them back out. Sometimes, if the planet is Festron, 1 turn is all that is needed for them to replace 1 unit of population.

Speaking of transports. Sometimes I can't refill my transports because 1 or more units of the transport population adopts the attitude of the planet it conquers. So they start protesting and thus refuse to get back on the transports.

I seem to be able to build as many economic upgrades as I want. The other kinds of upgrades seem to stop at 5.

Hey there!  It would be really great to have the ability to unassign a govenor.  Not naming anyone in particular ahem*ME*cough but uh... some newbies make mistakes and give a govenor to MARS and all of the new colonized worlds send their resources to MARS instead of earth.... It was a costly mistake lol.

Also, I think others have mentioned it here but I'd like to reiterate the point, that the default settings have A LOT of planets and the colonizing is getting a bit  cumbersome.  I love the model of core worlds and colonies but maybe there can be some improvement here like cheaper colony ships or automated colony ships.

The game is running very slow on my surface pro ( 8G RAM, core i5@2.6GHz, not sure about graphics csrd) at turn 30 ish.  GC3 ran very smooth   

Running the test version 0.40.186711