Yes pretty much but I can ask about metaverse's and stuff on this thread

You can get good at the game by reading more here and, of course, through experience. 29 planets is no small empire, so you should be able to turn that into a base to conquer the galaxy.  Turn some worlds into economic giants with nothing but economic bonus buildings.  Turn others into shipyards with nothing but factories and manufacturing bonus buildings.  Fill a couple planets with labs.  Now you should really be powerful.

Decide how you want to win and go for it.  Want to conquer?  Pick the nearest race that you don't have treaties/good relations with and target them.  Research weapons, miniaturization, planetary invasion, and build a military.  Then go to war.  Didn't work?  Learn from your mistakes and try again.

Superpowers  holding you down? Find the most powerful one (highest military rating) and pay them to go to war with the others.  Get everyone fighting with everyone else.  Keep your rivals fighting each other to keep the heat off of you.  Cultivate a few friends and send out freighters from your homeworld to their homeworld.  Get economic and research treaties from the minors and as many majors as you can - but don't pay too much for them!  Only give your treaties to your closest friends.

Well, there are a few suggestions.  Also know your tech tree.  See what you can research and plan ahead.

At beginner level the AI is at a big disadvantage both for intelligence and money. You should have room to experiment and not be crushed.  Have fun!

There are buttons with viewing choices at the bottom of the battle screen and also the one that tells you the battle outcome.   You can even replay the visual part over and over, to see it from different vantages.

Use the "Free Cam" viewing option. It's directly after "Cinematic" if you cycle through all the options.

Early on the greatest enemy of your growing economy is maintenance.  Every factory or lab that you build, even the basic colony tile that exists after colonisation, cost money just being there.  You can raise taxes to pay for this maintenance, but early on you want to grow your population by giving them tax breaks so their approval stays green.  When populations on your colonies have maxed out, then you get no real benefit from low taxes, so raise them as high as you can go without losing population from low approval.

As you acquire new colonies you may need to lower taxes to get those to grow.  If you've built up a lot of funds from high taxes, you can afford to do this (and run at a loss) for a while.  Or you can provide entertainment by building those kind of buildings and by mining morale (yellow) resources.

But in the meantime, build up just a few planets with only the infrastructure you need to progress.  Dedicate some worlds to producing just money, by placing economic buildings.

The advantage to rebounding from the expense colony rush early is that you can afford to buy planets from other empires sooner, when the populations have barely started to grow.  And of course you can flip them with culture or invade them later on.  So don't worry about not snagging everything in sight, but be concerned about how you're going to develop the tiles you do have.

Why is it that some of my planets say that when they are building something that it pops up with the message that if will Never build? It happens to me sometimes but Idon't know why. It also happens when I colonise a world that needs some advanced world colonization. But Even if I have all the world colonization it still pops up with building Never message.

Also how can I build my stuff faster? I have a hard time with that and I want to quickly build my ships.

How do I keep my people happy so that they will not rebell on my planets?

Is it possible in the map editor that you can make your maps larger than imense?  want to make the map size Galactic which is alot bigger than Imense it will have 1000 by 1000 sectors in the game. I was wondering if it is possible to make the map size larger.