So you have to recruit colonists from another inhabited planet (wait, is occupied == inhabited?) and bring them to the target planet to colonize the target planet? I'm pretty confused about the mechanism here.
Aye, that is correct. People should come from
somewhere.
Why is the manual accessible from the UI? Incomplete as it is, it's still helpful for people trying to figure out the game.
It will be, as soon as it's at least moderately helpful. Right now, it can cause more confusion than clarity.
Sweet. I wish you could make the buttons (in general) more distinguishable from the background though.
p/s: I swear for a moment there I saw Mitchell's post asking about web sockets.
A complete redesign is badly needed. We simply don't have the resources to pull it off. If this game ever brings us income, we'll allocate some funds (and time) on a redesign.
I too, sometime see posts in this thread and then they vanish... I'm guessing (hoping) authors deleting own posts.
Regardless, using websockets is not something doable in foreseeable future. We had that discussion (what to use? plain HTML/AJAX/websockets?) back when the development started and settled on plain old HTML with some AJAX here and there. That was probably not the best decision, but it's not something we can easily change now.