Thanks SaxyT, I appreciate your thorough answers. I am being relatively patient, but I just want to make sure there are no goose chases. At this stage of my game, pretty early, I don't have time to mess around...a typhoon just came through and took all my food, just when I had everyone researching and trying to get my science tech up so I could really accelerate through the other stages of research...so I had to put all hands on deck with the garden.

This is a really fun game. I bought it at Big Fish, and lately they had a wicked dry spell for good games (at least the ones I like to play). This was loooooooong awaited.