Ok.....it seems some people are starting to play. If you need help, there is a question mark in the top right corner. That will take you to the Jigg instruction forum. On a side note, build all cities until you have 13 level 9 cities. Make money until you have 245k. Sell a city and you'll have max money so don't max it out yet. From here, if you want to research and be a researcher, sell any one city and replace it with a launch pad. Upgrade it to max, then make money until 245k again. Keep doing it until you have a research level around 30-40. Your research level is the level of all your LPs (launch platforms) combined. My setup is 4 level 9 LPs and one level 6 LP. It give me 42 research points a turn. Don't worry about empire happiness. It doesn't really matter unless you want to be an attacker. More on that later.
PS. DO NOT ATTACK ANYONE until you have a setup of all level 9 building. As a reasearcher, this is important. Not attacking means staying off the revenge lists of other players from other sites. It will give you time before you are discovered on the recently active list.
Good luck.....AND WE ARE IN THE LEAD THIS ROUND.....BIG THANKS TO THE IAM LEAGUE OF FRIENDS.