Oh thank you sir, I cant remember any other symbol right now.*sheepish grin*. What about the strategies sir? Perhaps you remember a link for that (hopefully)?

Wheeeee! Tyvm sir, for that nice explanation .And the screenshots too hehe. In all labs I set it to 100% research and put focus on social?*I'm being a dim bulb*

Thank you sir, for the pointers. I have a doubt though sir- I read somewhere that unused social output is transferred to military automatically, so I thought if I put the focus on social, and there is no buildings being constructed, the social production would be automatically diverted to the military production. *I hope I didnt word my thought in a bumbling confusing way*.

I apologize for the bolding-I don't mean to be rude, I'm just making points.

You did, actually.

You're talking about having military funded, social funded, a ship building, and nothing in the social queue.  (Technically this works without a ship building, but if you have no ship building, what's the point of your military funding-or your social funding for that matter, since the queue's empty?)

Then you're talking about using focus-which takes 25% of A, 25% of B, and gives 20% of A, 20% of B to C (except in the case of social <--> military where it's 50% and I believe 40% but I haven't tested the depreciation with those two specifically).

The part where it gets messy is that focusing on social will decrease your military output, even if nothing is in the social queue, as you're essentially forcing the game to use that social.  I'm unsure if it is returned to your treasury due to being unused to actually build anything at this point or not.  I'll test that later.

There's really no good reason to do this, however, as most people using the unused social production going to military production mechanic are running a very low rate of military funding (think 1-10%), and subsequently a very high rate of social funding (50-99%).  Some people will run research relatively high with military at 1% and therefore keep social lower, but the bottom line is this: You're telling the game to take away from your lowest funded production(s) (military and research) and give to your highest funded production (social), and, to put it mildly, that doesn't make any sense.

The short answer to your question is that you're doing it wrong.  If you want more production to go to military, then focus on military.  This has the added benefit of giving you military's bonus to any focused production (but not the production from social that is transferred over due to being unused), and in either case you're spending that money on military production anyway.  You will however spend slightly more this way, though lessened by the bonus, and perhaps of more concern is being unable to focus on research at the same time as this.

Alternatively, fund social higher and focus research.

Then just read the last paragraph. 

Completely correct.

All trade goods (hull plating, aphrodiciacs, harmony crystals, etc) are empire-wide. Most one-per-galaxy buildings are empire-wide. Many one-per-civ buildings are planet-only. In that case, you can usually determine whether the effect is empire-wide or not by reading the text given when building it (lower left box on the planet screen).

You cannot set up a trade route between two planets you own - the target must be someone else's planet. If you take that planet (through surrender or influence) the trade route will end.

WIllythemailboy, sir, so the only way to tell the difference is to memorize what the trade goods are and to look at the building description huh. Thank you for the input sir.

Sole Soul,sir, thank you for your patience in dealing with my nutty/stoopid questions. I didnt know trade improves relationship between races, thank you for the pointer sir

All that really means is to cancel whatever those planets are building. If there aren't any buildings or ships being built, that planet isn't spending any of your money in those categories. Research cannot be turned off this way, and you will still be paying upkeep on the idle buildings, but this is a good way to keep your empire solvent in a crisis.

You don't really need to memorize what the trade goods are, if something is a trade good the text describing the building will tell you. Highlight it on the planet, the top line in the stat box (on the bottom, left of your build queue) will say Trade Good. Galactic Wonders and Galactic Achievements are indicated in the same way.

WIllythemailboy, sir, ty for taking the time off to reply, but I would respectfully like to ask how exactly can I " It's *FAR* better to have 100% spending on 10 worlds and 0% on others than it is to fund all at 80%" ??? (I know I am being really dense here, I apologize profusely.

Sole Soul, sir, you mean you remembered wrong about the trade improving racial relations?

Ooops! Sawwy for misunderstanding what you said sir. I've read that the expansions to the game have a lot of difference from DL. I wonder what those are? Honestly, this broken search function of the site is really annoying as I cant search for stuff which might already be answered Also, the expansions dont have their own tutorials ? hmph! So I have to re-learn stuff before trying out either expansion I suppose

Tyvm sir, for the nice links. Appreciate it very much