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About the point of heavily defended warp point - are you sure guys that it is possible to have 2 warp points between 2 systems? IIRC the message says 'there already is a warp point to that system' and you are not allowed to open another one. What you can do is close the defended warp point and open the new one. This is also clumsy as when I tried this the warp point opened in the exactly same position as the closed one so it became heavily guarded again. My resolution was to open a warp point from another system and get inside http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
I hope I made my point that you can understand what I mean http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Just to throw my two cents in I personaly like to take physical strenght,intelligence[i never really use it],cunning,and political savvy down to -50% then bump up construction aptitude to 150% the hightest it can go.Then I like to add my ship atk. and def. as high as I get it.Under advance traits I select temporal knowledge[for the temp.spaceyard]and hardy industrialists in the game this allows me to build with 11kt in construction! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif Some thing I do slowly during my game I start to convert my min. org. rad. facilities with monoliths then my homeworld can make about 34kt on each resource.This is one thang I have had nice results with.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">If you set your fleets to target non-combatant ships, you can knock out the support ships of large fleets. This has great value if you can not destroy the fleet directly. Knock out their sweepers, and they might just die on your next minefield.

You missed the "launch mines in empty sectors" trick. Launch mines in sectors that are along the ship paths between warp points. People often do not suspect that someone will have launched mines in empty space, only over planets and warp points.

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All these help increase your mobility in a game - they may be "gamey" but they are allowed:

You can order your ship to retrofit and THEN move on the same turn. Move it to a forward repair facility or repair ship and it will get retrofitted, moved, AND repaired - all in the same turn - if you are a retroseries builder this helps a lot.

String training facilities to your front lines - a ship gets training at the end of a movement turn. That way your ship doesn't have to sit in one spot to get trained - it can train as it moves.

You can order a ship to warp and THEN move into and unexplored system. It will then move it's full movement and you won't get stuck at a warp point.

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bump. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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El Bumpo. Stoney where are you???