Panic77

Check out this post, which asked and answered a lot of those questions: https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/?forumid=404&aid=300077

Knowing the layout of the planets is very important. Some maps are always the same, which isn't fun to me, so I play random. My start: Queue resources (crystal, metal, metal usually) build 3xscouts buy crystal if it's still cheap build a cap ship factory Put scouts on autoscout, but direct their first jump usually towards the center of the map(assume jumps away from you are safe, save them to explore later) Build cap ship when it's ready. Build a colony ship

Preface: I haven't read all the posts, sorry if I'm duplicating. First off, great game. My biggest problems right now are with getting the information I need as fast as possible. For research, this means I want to know how much I have queued currently. I would like to see the research button at the top of the screen also double as an indicator of how much I have queued. This information could be two part, one is the remaining time on current research, and the second would be ei