Never played the francise, but after a first game on "very easy" (100yrs in) with full tutorial enabled, I must say, cannot recommend for francise newbies. - Tutorial is more of an extended tooltip function. No guidance. - I still have not found a research tree, in three areas I constantly get presented with three choices without knowing what makes sense at any given point in time. - cumbersome interface requireing a lot of micromanagement. * Why cant I give a construction ship the order to construct everything in a star system? * Why cant explorer ships not just auto-survey everything? - very unclear, how planets should be developed. * What area makes sense? * Comprehensivve overview which resources are produced and needed by what is missing afaik. Long story short, I wont return it, but wouldnt buy again.
