You can queue up to 12 technologies, you can also divide all your points in any number of technologies you have queued up, you know, parallel research, just be careful what you queue because if its cost is high, it will take longer to research.The first research you do in your first turn of any game, will have a 20 000 research points bonus, Choose your first tech wisely, I usually go for Ship Construction, but can be anything that suits your play style or particular strategy.

The Research window is very simple, it ill display all the areas of technology available for research, their level and the cost in research points to complet them.

As a matter of fact, it's on of the two first windows you should open before you finish your first turn, the other one is Research, we will get to that later.The first design you have to do is a basic scout ship, we need to check our neighbourhood ASAP, because this will let us know what planets are going to be colonized in the next turns.The second design is, you guessed right, a colony ship. And the Options window, which let you enable the autosave for the current game for th reason I explained in the Before we begin! The Design window is perhaps one of the most used in the game, because here is where you put all that new tech to work, new engines, new weapons, new armor, new components for your ships or units. This is a very straightforward menu, you can start a new game, save, load and delete a game, but there are 2 important options, Players, this window let you assign the control for very empire in the current game, human control or computer control, it comes in handy for the reason I explained in the subsection Victory Condtions in the Setting up a new game section. The interfaceIn order to enjoy the game you will have to know where the commands and info are. One of the most atractive aspects of the game is its customization.

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