Stardock will be closed for the week starting on Monday, June 29th and we will be returning on Monday, July 6th. We will be monitoring support tickets and forums during this time but expect delays in responses during this time.
You can see current effects on a ship by moving your curser over it, and looking at the status log on the right hand side of the screen. Just like with planets special abilities/effects - ships will list all effects they are under towards the bottom of the log.
I picked up the game the same time my brother and my buddy did. My wife left us alone and we lan'd for about 24 hours strait. Later I started my first real AI game on a extra large random galaxy with a mix of hard and normal AI. Just my luck I was sandwiched in with 2 of the hard AI's from the begining. My TEC strat is to planet grab; tech up key early economy; build up fleet and planets; tech up key military with the ocasional economy tech (ignoring culture the whole time); contin
