couple of questions on farms and treaties.

from Stardock Forums

I just picked up GalCiv II Ultimate edition and was playing a game as the terrans.  The question I have is where are the farms you can build?  Do I need to research something that will alow me to build them ?  Also how do you create treaties ?  I researched the ability to create treaties however when I talk to some of the races next to me none of the options changed and the one I was talking to liked me. 

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Farms are in a dark green section of the tech/research tree. Once you obtain the research necessary for farming it'll be an option on the planetary build screen.

 

Note: You DO NOT need to build farms.  Your worlds will automatically produce a certain amount of food, usually enough for around 6 billion or so people.  Building farms increases the population cap for that particular world, and the more people you put on it the more you'll have to deal with it dragging down morale.  It's up to you whether you think building a farm(s) is worth the costs (more tax revenue and potential troops vs. less happiness), and if you wish you never have to build any farms and can still do just fine in the game.

 

As for treaties, the game doesn't always show a treaty option even if you have the research (or at elast mine doesn't).  I'm not sure why.

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Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
About farms - without a farm, you can have up to 8B pop on a planet. I strongly suggest that you build one more farm and upgrade it to 'intensive farming'. That will give you a max of 14B pop, which is good for tax and influence and also not too difficult to manage. Later on, you can go up to 20B pop if you feel like it. I think the research and economic treaties are not a problem, because they are visible all the time. Is it 'Alliance' that you can't see? It will only be available if you have 'close' relations with that race. It can be tough to get such good relations, but wisely trading and sometimes gifting can be very helpful.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Thanks for the info on the alliances and farms. 

Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

The race you're trying to get an alliance with also has to have the Alliances technology researched...

 

Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Wauke is correct on the Alliance biz.  That is, both you and the race with which you want to ally must BOTH have completed that research.  Note that the other race and you must be at the "close" level before one can form an alliance.  If you get to that point and "Alliance" is not one of the choices, then you probably have to trade them the "Alliances" tech first.

Do not close out from the screen after you make that trade, though, or you will have to wait (or reboot) to be able to form the alliance.  The "Alliance" choice should show up as soon as you make the trade.

You will not be able to make such a trade if you have disabled tech trading in the game setup choices.

One last point, you can give only one economic and one research treaty.  So, if that choice does not show in the other race's choices, then they probably already have that treaty with another race.