For all you strategy lovers out there this is a great game. Ok the beginning you can make 4 ships, you get these ships bigger by training merchants or other things in the beginning. your goal is to make a good enough ship to fly once you get a good ship that can fly and had decent hull you take off and start spiceing. spiceing is where you buy spice some place and sell it at another place this makes a lot of money you get prestige every time you use turns, fly and you can get it many other ways. prestige gives bonuses every prestige marker you make it to. at 3000 prestige you get a 5th ship. I love this game first of all because my brother made it and its been out there for around 6-7 years so it has many features. you don't get bored of the game because there is so many things to do. The bad reviews are from people who didn't play long enough to figure the game out or they didn't even play it in the first place. they just want their game to go up, seriously play this game for a week or more and you'll love it.