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Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
Minerals would be the real bottleneck, yeah.
If you don't use E-build, and target your colonizers at the mineral-heavy worlds, the 50k starting resources should tide you over.

Those 9 non-slow BSY queues during the second year will only be burning about 13k minerals per turn even on E-build.

+ About 4 K maintanance

Without EB you will run out of minerals turn 12 or 13 depending on mineral value on your closest planets.

You will also still be stuck in your home system, while players doing more conventional start already have explored / colonized 3-4 additional systems.