Yet another newbie with questions.

[John Baxter]

Hello everybody!

Another newbie in the forums. And a Swedish one, so you must excuse my english.

I tried to find answers to my questions by reading in the forums, but after an hour my eyes start to bleed, and all the letters give me a headache, so I thought I'd ask instead.

I've only played the game for 10 hours or so, but I've already got enough questions to fill a soccer arena. But now that I'm trying to write them down, I seem to have forgotten most of them... Well, I remeber some of them, so here goes:

1. Is there any reason to upgrade your ships engines when you advance from, say Ion engine I to Ion engine II? I can't see any benefits at all. They only cost less when built.

2. Is there any way to modify you racial traits when playing? For example increase strength by 1%.

3. I've colonized 40 or so planets, but most of them are, well... crap. I've only got about 10 that are really useful. Should I stop spending resources on colonizing tiny planets and concentrate on the good stuff?

4. Which rescource do you use the most? So far I've almost exclusively used minerals. Does this change later in the game? And a related question is:

5. How much storage is useful? So far my mineralstores are almost always close to depeation, and organics- and radioactivesstores are abundant.

6. Do I have time to research everything. or am I spreading myself too thin if I do that?

7. Are you all playing SEIV Gold? Are there a lot of changes between SEIV and SEIV Gold?

8-∞ I'll get to those later...

Thanks in advance.