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Originally posted by ealbright:
This may be an unnecessary point, but what if you fully exploit your system, go next door, and find a neutral? I'd be inclined to stay isolated, but that's me.
This is another good reason not to use Nuetrals in the game. Just make sure in the game setup you turn off the Random selection of computer nuetral empires.
Played some more Last nite on my experimental game. It should be noted that my game had tech cost set to Med. By turn 175 I had researched all colony techs and had colonized and converted all the atmospheres to my natural preference. I believe I had 4 GG huge, 1 GG large, 1 Rock Huge, 1 rock large, 1 Ice med & 1 rock tiny in my system.
At this point I decided to do Bills limited exploration idea. sent 1 ship to the S WP - empty but for asteroids. Sent 1 to the NE WP - empy. Sent 1 to the NW WP - BOOM - Mines. Sent another (home never knew what happened to the 1st ship, never transmitted anything I guess) - Boom. repeat - finally ran out of mines and had 1st contact w/Terrans. They had been sitting next door for who knows how long and for some reason mined the WP leading into my system - all w/o ever contacting me - makes me wonder how they knew to mine that point?
Anyway, another observation I found is that with my 11 planets and 7 Cruisers (must keep the population in line) I was in 3rd place out of 13. go figure.
I think I'll try again w/another scenerio. A helpful idea I found - use Gas Giant as your starting race and hope for another colonizable world in your home system - then build nothing but research facilities.
It is definately a fun way to play.
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