It seems odd that making wealth improves moral.  Either way thanks, that helped me get my planets going.

One thing that is still confusing is what does everything do? I see some things say things like +production, +food, or lots of other things that are familiar, but I don't remember how they worked in GCII, or maybe how they work different now. With no in-game tooltips or help file is there a resource somewhere that gives more information on the details of game mechanics?

"It seems odd that making wealth improves moral."    This is not odd at all in fact it makes perfect since. If the economy is strong which mean people can make more and if they make more they can spend more. Which means that they can spend money on luxury items which in turn can bring up a populations moral.  Works in the real world so it makes since that it is put into the game.

I guess the wealth/approval interaction was counter intuitive because in GCII you were taxing the population for the money (which people don't like). Now that the game doesn't have a tax slide bar it still felt like I was taking their money (aka taxing them). I'll have to think about the system from a balance standpoint a bit more.

I understand and like how getting a new colony going is a combination of factories/farms/hospitals. I'll be focusing on that more now.