Please help a new player

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Well as you can tell I am a new player and I have two questions. What functions do Long Range Phase Jumps and Worm Hole Navigation have. They are both upgrades in civilian engineering. When I buy them I can't figure out what they do. I thought that long range jumps would allow you to jump past one planet to another, two planets away and I thought that worm holes allow you to transport across the map. Could someone tell me what these upgrades actually do and how to use them?

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Usually on larger maps, at some point you'll find an otherwise-empty gravity well or two with a cloudy yellow ring in it when you zoom out, and that appears to be empty but after a second fills with a bright nebula-like formation when you zoom in. Check the info-panel by hovering your mouse over the object: it's a wormhole. The wormhole research allows you to have your fleet enter that wormhole and appear at a different one somewhere else. It's great for getting behind enemy lines if the "exit" wormhole is elsewhere in the solar system... and a pain if one is in your own empire's back door because you have to watch it (although the AI isn't really very good at exploiting it.

Long Range Jumps are only good for maps that have more than one star. If you're playing a map that has only one star as you zoom out as far as you can, DO NOT RESEARCH THIS: it's a complete waste of money. However, if you do have more than one star, Long Range Jumps allow your ships to jump from star-gravwell to star-gravwell.

Enjoy the game.

-- Retro
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
Thank you very much theRetroboy btw this is my first post and your advice really helped me out. Thanks for being part of the awesome Sins Community and thanks for helping me out.
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
i love planet with rings mostly rare and impacted whole 2 planets really rare i would post a pic if i knew how to