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does this mean i still have to keep craptastic impulse for old sins updates if i get the new rebellion?

ya but last i checked it was a RealTimeStragy game... meaning when the game is paused, nothing happens. like other RTS games often you cant even scroll around an check out whats going to take a breather. IMHO it works like it should.

I like the defense hangers... i quickly went from having 1 to 3 around many of my front line planets. I found that 2 repair platforms that overlap can keep a fleet patched up for about 3 times the length as going at it alone. (usually enough to whip out the raid, and only loose a few small ships [quote]Use them! 4-5 gauss turrets (or equivalent for other races) is not enough to defend your planet from a siege raid if you don’t have a stationed fleet there. Build up 15-20, some repair

try to pick up 2 other bodies (for resources) modertly defend my homeword few military upgrades (perhaps some armor and lasers) civic i try to push hard on, quicker mineing and larger populations. i push for a second captal ship BEFORE i have 2 reserch stations in each (the dammage 10-12 small frigets, that cost the same total, is no were near what a bone stock warship does out of the hanger) then i sit back and turtle a bit and run moderly heavy raids (or fend of

ZOMG! pirates! seriously the pirates in the beta werent to bad, they showed up every now and then and for the most part i squashed them like a grape. so i get home from BB, pop the disk in, wait like 30 min for the thing to install (holy crap that took long) and jump right into game 1 of single player. and OMG pirates bent me over every horzontal surface! I managed to squeak out a second capital ship by scraficeing virtually all my built up metal and crystal,

ok well i called it a demo... the beta i guess is what they are calling it....

Im looking to DL a pdf and or HTML pages for the "paperwork" that would come with the inbox game. Ive been playing the demo and love it, but have been wanting to get my hands on a tech tree and or "instruction manual" that describes the various ships and ablities (an extenstion of the tech tree i suppose) anyway, do you guys have such a DL at this time? thanks