same, I am also a warlike race of beings, I am very creative at hear so the editors without actually playing the game itself can give me some enjoyment and although ive basically completed the game (got to the center, found Earth, got almost all the badges i would want to get...eg I dont want the cheating badge ) it does get tedious after a while but nothing is stopping you from creating again and again and playing the game in a diffrent way. I would certainly spend more time on this than most FPS games for example
Well the Civilization part was a huge letdown for me. You two just said that you were Warlike, and would expect the game to be otherwise for pacifist and economic.
I played as a pacifist/religious race, and to my big disappointment it was identical to Warlike. As a warlike you attack and try to destroy stuff, however, as a Religious race I attack, and my forces shoot "Converting-beams" at my enemies. So I attack a city, and just stand there shooting converting beam on it, while fighting off that cities vehicles etc, after a while it is 100% converted, and you get it.
Money really doesn't become a problem once you figure out the spice system.
I was messing around for hours in the space stage doing missions for money, until I figured out what spices are most valuable, and how I can know what planet has what spices.
Also the whole super-powers, didn't know they existed. I'm now trying to join the Path of Harmony, as their superpower is to auto teleport to the homeplanet, which is nice when I am faaar away from my empire. Gotta paint 150 different planets, down to 80 left now.
As for the trading part, purple spices are the most expensive ones, red lowest. And you can see the spice indicator next to the name of a planet, and you should add colonies on planets with purple pink and blue spices. And always check multiple planets when selling spices. Some people will buy your red spices for 225$ while others buy it for as much as 13000, and when I produce about 50 red spice a minute I can earn a lot of money fast.