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Soase is an incredible game as it has incorporated so many great concepts from other games into one excellent package. When I say incorporated, I know it has been said that some of the technologies (huge zoom levels and zoom scrolling, etc) were a part of the engine and developed exclusively in house even before other games featured them. Irregardless, the look of Homeworld, the tech tree depth of Civ, the lane connected planets of SW:EAW and the control/choke points which are created, the zoom

I'm really happy to finally play a game like Homeworld (in looks) that incorporates so much depth and so many more options compared to traditional rts games of today. When you sit down to play soase, relax, take a deep breath and enjoy a whole different pace of play where the outcome isn't determined by how fast you can click your mouse in a half an hour. There is also this handy little feature called 'save game' which ,amazingly, can even be used in multiplayer. Speaking of handy features, I wi

Is there any advantage to using one of your planets as a 'trade' planet and building multiple ports around it? I don't have the manual with me as I type this post but I think I remember it merely stating that building a trade port opens up new lanes of trade for increased income (as well as a bonus applied to all connected planets which have a trade port). If you build more than one trade port on a planet does that increase the percentage of trade income the planet contributes to the total?

I have only been playing the game a couple of days and have only played as the Advent, but my understanding is that the number of labs you maintain only relates to the techs that require a greater number of labs to initiate research. I have found, in playing the Advent, that they have an early tech you can research which decreases the amount of time needed to research all other techs. I'm not sure if the other factions have anything similar or if this is a faction related bonus for the Advent.