[Undertakr]

I have to agree, 99% of the people I have played against never realized, or don't use this strategy, but I believe that's a major mistake.

Use transports as colony ships from your HOMEWORLDS. You can transport a hell of a lot more population on it and that gives your new planets big bonuses immediately. I use regular colony ships from non-homeworlds until I get population built up on my new planets.

My other idea was already mentioned, I never mess with the possibility of sending the wrong colony type ship, I put them all on one ship, that way if plans change on my way to somewhere, I don't have to wait for a specific colony ship to build, mine can do any type. Just build a space yard on a base or station and have it repeat building colonizers the entire game and you'll be way ahead of everyone else.

No matter what anyone says, two things win this game, expansion and minerals. If you can do both better than the rest of the people in the game, you have a huge advantage.

- Takr