Today i was playing as the drath for the first time, first of all i must say, its a dificult race to play, im mostly used to play thorians and yor in TA so i love the one per planet improvments and because i play as those races i tend to have good low mantinamence factories wich makes the first part of the game quite easy, but this factories the drath have wich i belive (correct me if im wrong) are the standard ones are very baaad.

Well lets just skip to what this post is for, there are 2 things mainly:

1-Anyone have a good staring build for the drath (with this i mean where should i allocate the initial points)

2-How should i play the drath in the first part of the game, just when we are at the half and end part of the colony rush.

This gives me a lot of trouble i normally play inmense so i end up knowing only 2 or 3 races so i cant use war profitering at full power, i tried it and it was great but the part where drath are the weakest is at the start and it dosent matter how much diplomatic power you have no one goes to war with others without a military.

3-(The main question and the reason i made this post) Should you, when you select a race with negative abilities, nullify those negatives or should you try to work around them?

The reason for this question is that i dont like to eliminate the weak spots of my race through just points cause it takes a little form the diversity, but some negatives like the drath -20% to pop growth is a little too much for me. But the wuestions stands, what do you think is best, to eliminate the weakness using your points? or use those points to get other abilities wich will compasate for the weakness?

Im especially interested in drath(-20 pop growth) and arcean (- 1 speed).

And off-topic i have 2 tecnical questions:

1-I get really pist off when im trying to micro a ship like an scout or survey ship through planets and anomalies but each time other ship makes something or stops it jumps right to it and each turn i have to return my screen to my other ship wich is a little anoying. Its this fixable throgh the settings?

2-Well this is kind of the same, when im moving large fleets sometimes i move a fleet and then the game sends me automaticly to other ship wich in some cases is very far away and i end up having to move 8 fleets and stop each time i move it just to adjust my camera.

3-THIS ONE IS STUPID SO YOU CAN JUST JUMP IT,while im at this and beacuse i feeling a little tired and dont want to look in the manual i will ask here, what does each ship orders do, and with ship orders i mean, guard, sentry etc.