[Arkcon]

Originally posted by Echo Mirage:
Can any of you gents provide me with some hints as to how play a defensive game well?

I understand expansion is very important, almost vital to survival but I'd like to see if I can develop a game where I in effect "turtle" myself up delving into the technology of Applied Intelligence and playing a very passive role in a game.

Any suggestions? I have started a game like this and am curious as to whether anyone plays like this?

You can have some fun by playing as a neutral. After a new game is set up, use the players menu to switch a neutral to human control and your old player to computer control(turn on all ministers first).

Then try to survive. Bases at warp points, stellar mamipulation to the max, etc.

You can use intell to steal other planets, and be a neutral spread out across the quadrant.

Pick your allies carefully, I selected the TDM Modpack Xiati. Bad choice, they're too suspicious to ever make a treaty higher than military alliance, so I never got partnership sight to other systems.

Then they conquered the whole map except for my two systems. With a ringworld and a sphereworld full of intelligence facilities, I could counter any intel attack from their entire galaxy of facilities -- but I couldn't win intel against them.

[ January 07, 2003, 22:19: Message edited by: Arkcon ]