Yet another newbie with questions.

[DirectorTsaarx]

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Originally posted by John Baxter:
3. Can I choose to upgrade the facilities on just a couple of planets instead of on all of them?

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As capnq mentioned, each planet's construction queue has a button for "upgrades" (underneath the buttons for ships, facilities and units). You can the select which class of facility you want to upgrade on that planet. The "upgrade facilities" button that appears on the global construction queues window will, as you've noticed, issue orders to perform all possible upgrades on all planets.

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Originally posted by John Baxter:
5. What are the space storms for? Why would you want to make them yourself? To me they are just obstacles.

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And you can make them into obstacles for the enemy. That's pretty much the best purpose for generating your own storms.

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Originally posted by John Baxter:
6. Can you find things on planets when you colonize them? Some of the planets have descriptions like "The final resting place of two ancient races", which makes me think that you might.

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Again, as capnq pointed out, you can get technology from planets with the little "ruins" icon; the description will also have a section in boldface that says something like "Advanced technology has been detected on this planet". The "final resting place of two ancient races" means nothing, it's just there for decoration.