I got the first food one, but what others should I research? Still know very little about the game.

After you research the food you must research the medicine or the engeneering because the medicine will give you longevity and the engeneering will give you a dam.

I go level 2 food, level 2 medicine then lvl 3 farming then from there it is up to you.

I use to research the food first and then the enginering to level 2 after that i research medicine and i research culture.

oh woops i forgot to add the lvl 2 enginerring lol here is my new order

Level 2 farming, level 2 enginering, level 2 medicine, then level 3 farming.

I did it this way the first time i played and have experimented with all different orders but i prefer this one.

I also try to reach early the level 2 of science and so I can have tech points faster.

I am a little confused. I read somewhere in VV2 you should not buy food till later? Is this true?

The most important, at the beginning, is to build a dam to have some crops. It's level 2 of Engineering. After, it depends: Where are you in your game? What is the population, how many children? Do you play in easy, normal or hard difficulty and what is the speed?

Level 2 food, Level 2 Engineering, Level 2 exploration, (Level 2 culture or medicine) Level 3 Farming. That's when I feel lucky. Level 2 food, Level 2 engineering, and Level 3 farming are MUSTS, but exploration for dup. collectibles and sometimes I sneak culture and medicine in there. Science to me is least important, because it doesn't do much.

This topic should be change to a "spoiler" don't you think?