Review of STARS! Space Strategy Game

Who likes freighter management!! :)!! :)!! :)!!. I don't. Even with the huge wealth of literature and support programs there have been better games made for obsessive competitive geeks. Like Aurora or MOO3. If only someone made a silly low level ability called auto pop migration... AI is a chump with a decent pop growth race. Game is decently deep. Economy can be made to practically self manage and besides the freighter ships I have not gotten to warship management being bad. Somehow, with all of the literature at wiki.starsautohost.org/wiki/Category:Guts there isn't a good guide for almost anything besides "guts" cause most of the rest are long winded approximations and opinions instead of concise info. Setting up the game to include a bunch of races in a small space proved that all the effort was not worth it.