I've tried the GalCiv I demo once..... and deinstalled it after a few turns
It still holds the record for "game that spent the least time on my hard drive". The only
good thing about the game was the fact that you had to research Universal Translator before you could read the alien messages, but this was offset by A.) it came really early in the tech tree (
totally realistic), and B.) it only worked because you were forced to play as the humans.
So in short, no, I don't plan on buying GalCiv II
I may check out the demo once, but as it stands I certainly don't plan to buy it.