Who's played Galactic Civilizations here and can make a comparison between the two? I noticed GalCiv pics in ImageMod so I thought to ask for comments, since I play both myself.
But now I only play SEIV

Even though GalCiv has all the nice fine controls on government spending and income, and has a (far) better diplomatic model, these are the only two things I like more.
How many people here think ship design is tedium only and should be replaced by automatically upgraded ships/fleets, etc? Other than a few cases, like PPBs, that are so overpowered as to knock out all competition, ship design imho really brings out the potential of the 4X genre.
Any opinions? Flames?

If nobody replies I'll just assume then everyone's too busy playing SEIV to bother with GC
Abdiel