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Due to the help here, I ran a rather effective 2nd DL campaign that was not even close. However, I found out that I needed to transport the troops to take Ixith or whatever the planet name was... I chose traditional and saw my advantage of something like 27 to 6, then the destruction of their life bar on the right (in red). It looked like my bar was not going down at all during the battle, then the battle kind of "froze" halfway through and I had to click CLOSE or somethin

It is so scary to think all that I learned about the game in the posts above and that it probably accounts for 1% of total gameplay. Thanks for the tips, that cleared up a lot for me. I will have to check out the build "nothing" option next time I play.

Newbie here... I have played all Civ games and decided this game may be the perfect combo of Starflight/StarControl (yes, you remember those) and Civ. Can someone point me to a thread or site where it will give you first-timer tricks? I assuem somewhere on these forums there are some... Also, I played my first game and I could not stop building ships. It took me a few minutes to figure out how to build them, then I couldn't stop it. How do you st