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Originally posted by Lemmy:
I beg to differ, units are indeed customizable, through your actions in game, by customizing your civ, by researching specific technologies, by conquering military resources.
A peaceloving race will have much weaker units then a warlike race, even with the same units.
You can build starbases to enhance your units or increase production in a sector.
There are plenty of critical decisions in GalCiv, and unlike in other games, these decisions can come back to haunt you on the long term....*looks at the time*....gotta go now...maybe more later.

That does not make the units themselves customizable. A defender is always a defender. A freighter is always a freighter. I don't really have any sort of direct choice in what bonuses the ships get. Researching a technology always provides the exact same benefit. I have no choice as to what I add that benefit to. There is no tradeoff to use the benefit between space used, other benefits, cost, etc. This is why I said there are no critical ship design decisions. You can not design your ships. You can not directly control the strength or ability of your ships, except with those global all-encompassing bonuses. There is no decision on where to use those.