Although obvious enough it's worth pointing out that Research is essentially useless unless it helps you grow or maintain you empire in some way. Tying into how the population growth model works in the game and its central role, this has some important implications for Research in particular and how you manage your empire in general. but in Pandora, on the even longer term, GROWTH is what it is all about since you are playing the long game - until you can simply win! Never neglect your empire's growth, growth, growth until your empire is powerful enough that you can go straight for the victory! Slightly longer term, he with the best RESEARCH will gain the edge. Less so in this game! In the very short term, PRODUCTION (in Pandora, this is BOTH mineral extraction AND the production effort itself!) is always king since production is what allows you to produce units for basic self defense. This analysis is very similar to what could be proposed for other strategy games - but Pandora is uniquely focused on the growth aspect, much more than other games where for example the research aspect plays a more prominent role, by for example not allowing much growth without significant research effort. Population gives you Production and Science, but it is more important that Production and Science give you population! but, while skillful tactical usage of your combat units may result in a war advantage over your enemies, the purpose of capturing their territories in the first place is always about capturing their population. Growth is the ultimate resource because the only way of winning the game (outside of super-cheese strategies, like winning economic victory by saving up a fortune in the extremely early game) is to use your superior population mass to achieve either economic, scientific or military domination. Everything you do in the game - including even researching through the tech tree - ultimately all feeds back into the overarching purpose of increasing your empire's population count through growth. Population is what allows you to do anything in the game, whether that is extracting minerals used for construction or waging war on opponents. There is essentially just one winning resource in Pandora: First Contact: Population points.
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