Yar, I'm one of those try-before-you-buy people. My experience with two Stardock titles so far, though, leaves me no doubt that GalCiv II will be exactly what I wanted. Plus, tech support doesen't suck either. I had problems on Stellar Frontiers, and they got fixed in a bare hour because of speedy e-mail tech help.
But, I need to know if GC2 will even work on my computer. My computer acts very oddly, even though it never has serious/active spyware or viruses, so specifications set aren't always accurate for it. It'd be awesome if you put out a program that you could download and run, that would say whether GC2 would work or not.