Fra-Ha

Hm, yeah - I've known most of the tricks you told me, but also learned a few things, thank you very much! :) My "problem" is more that you do not even have a chance to buy into a metal mines most of the time (and you need water too ^^) whereas other "races" like scavenger hardly need any additional building to be unlocked. My suggestion is not to give access for scientific right away (even though this would only be fair!) but to make it at least possible to buy workforce for metal

In my case: I'm not even trying on CEO-level. I'm quite too new to this game to try these difficulties. But the issue with having no Aluminum mine available at all would be present on all levels, right? May I ask how I should play out the campain without mining Aluminum? I can't always buy, mutiny, pirate it?!

I can agree to most of the topics mentioned above. I'm pretty new to the game, but I think I can handle playing against the AI very good as I win all games without too much diffculties - except in the campain. As scientific to start without water would be okay for me, but to start without water and (in 8 out of 10 cases) to not have access to a mine at all - that's really strange! The experts I can hire are not random enough. Mostly I see 3 pleasure dome guys (o