To be more specific, I found Galciv2 to be an expansion race, meaning all other victory conditions like tech / influence / economic etc... was just an illusion. If you wanted to win a tech victory, you had to expand to gain bonuses to tech on certain tiles on newly found planets. The same with other victory conditions, expand and you get bonuses to influence etc.. So the best way to win was in fact a militaristic victory since that was the only way to expand by capturing other systems and fighting opposing fleets. Didn't they learn anything from their other exceptional games like fallen enchantress or the upcoming sorcerer king gameplay? I rather just play those than galciv3 or should i say 2. lol. OH and by not talking about espionage which I think was the heart of the galciv series, I'm starting to think they won't even have it in galciv3, which ultimately will make this game go backwards instead of forward.
Seriously, I think either the PR is incredibly bad and on the dev streams their purposely avoiding questions related to espionage is kind of getting old and childish.