A couple questions about the game

[:1]1. What are some good opening build orders? I play UEF. So far I have been going 4 extractors (2 from commander 1 each from engineers) then sending my 2 engineers to build more extractors and having my commander build 4 power plants and then 3 air factories. I save all my rp for gunships and then just mass gunships/fighters. I am pretty sure this is not a great build order as I have to wait for my factories sometimes.
Since it seems that they got rid of the trees and stuff that I used to harvest for mass in supcom1, there really isnt much else for me to do except wait for more mass, which leads me to think I should probably be doing something else.
In the 5 ranked games I have played, I used this in 4 of them and won all 5. Though nobody was rated higher than 1700, so I am pretty sure I didnt win purely due to my skill.
2. Do you lose rating if u don't play for a few days? I played my first 2 games, won them, didnt play for a day or two and then my rating was back at 1500 when i got back today.
3. Is there any way to view research during a replay?
4. Is there any way to turn off the auto grouping of units? that giant circle is the bane of my existence, makes it impossible for me to try to get all of my units in one group.

Thanks|||1.
look here:
http://www.gamereplays.org/community/in ... forum=3545
and be sure to read all of this:
http://www.gamereplays.org/community/in ... pic=738828
2.
you dont lose rating if you don't play. I did hear some people complaining their ranking dropped after changing names. I don;t know why this is.
3.
there is a way, someone posted a replay viewer for that on the GPG forums. Duncan posted it I believe.|||what ever he said |||4. Press crtl when you move your units if you don't want them to form up in squares. Crtl click in the centre of the square if you want them to bunch up.
Zoom out and drag select if you want all your units in one group. It overrides the autogrouping.|||About the rating: you're not supposed to lose rating like that, but the ranked ladder is full of bugs. I once lost 140 points for a single loss, as another example. If you want to play 1v1, just host a 1v1 custom game. You'll get a game quicker that way. Do you have the DLC?
Also, turning off the strategic overlay (not sure exactly how to do it anymore, I did it the day the game came out) prevents auto-grouping of units entirely.|||In the options, you can set "always show strategic overlay" to off. You will still see the range rings, but it will not show the auto groups anymore, and your map will look much brighter in color too |||Tool to view research in the replay:
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=45736
To get rid of the circles of groups, just press Ctrl-O in-game|||oh wow, thanks for the tip guys, I did not realize the gamereplays site was the go to site for supreme commander 2 information.
Also, is that tool the only way to view research? I cant believe they did not include the research trees as part of the replay UI.|||Zero12345678|||Remember, this is a game that doesnt even have UI for rebinding hotkeys, even though the engine supports it. ;)|||splattedone|||redarrow|||alright. I dont really care about statistics anyways
btw, steam says I only played like 300 games and lost like 260 of them.