Rather buggy dissapointment there. Though patches are doing wonders for the stability of the game, it's still really far from finished - the vast majority of techs and options do nothing, for instance. It's a shame too, SOTS1 was one of the better recent 4x games, and has some of the more imaginative racial design out there, along with races being functionally different (as opposed to +x% to spearchuckers and -5% to stone) in ship design and propulsion method. And just.... generally "not just a human with forehead ridges" alienness. Hopefully they'll get this game working properly soon enough. It'd also be nice if the AI's played more like the racial stories imply they should ;)