Galactic Leadership Style

[Atrocities]

Laid back and Friendly

When I play a Single Player game, I often like to play with a large Dense quadrant (Ala Fyron FQmod 2.0) with the best planet and player settings. I often start with low tech, and high cost. I like the 5k racial points, and often play a custom race which I save often to build up exp points.

My GLS is a moderate to conservative. I seldom explore rapidly, I like to keep my area of influence small and build up gradually. I dedicate to colonizing habitable planets within a five system or more radius around my home system as fast as I can. Each planet has a SY/RSB/Storage/Cargo/and at least 1 of each Mineral/Organic/Radioactive production facilities. The rest of the space is for Research facilities.

Each planet will have both defensive satellites, and weapon platforms.

I research physics first, then move onto other interesting things. I often research Gas/Ice around turn 50 or so after I have maxed out on DUC's and CM's. PD and PPB. Shields and armor are a must as well.

As the game progress, I often choose to be nice to my neighbors as I discover them. But if they turn out to be hostile, I expend all resources defeating them and blockading their Homeworld. I then force them to surrender.

Once I have established a strong resourced storage and production ability, I begin to concentrate upon exploration and conquest. By this time I would have researched fighters, mines, sat, troops, and ship construction to at least level 2 or 3 each.

I plant mines and sats at each WP that I want to control, and eventually have a few patrol ships there to mop up any ship that comes thru. I keep the sats and mines at maximum levels and as the WP becomes more and more contested, I deploy more and more ships to defend it.

One of the biggest flaws in SEIV is the diplomacy. Without warning, a Partnership Ally with a Brotherly standing declares war upon you. That I hate. From that point, that race will always be at war with you.

If Aaron fixes one thing for SEV, it must be diplomacy& politics.

I like to be friendly as long as I can toward the AI, but in the end, usually by turn 100, all things are bad.

Now when I play MP games, I play by differant tactics. Those are mine alone, and have served me well.

[Arkcon]

Likewise, I like to get resource extractors to level 3 fairly quickly, so I get plenty of resources from my few planets.

[Fyron]

Monoliths are a lot better for maximizing resource production.

[Phoenix-D]

Monoliths also are more expensive and take longer to build.

Plus until you have a functional converter, they're ussually overkill. Especially since if you have a planet that's, oh, 140/10/90, a mineral miner will get a lot more minerals than a monolith, and you don't need the extra rads or pitiful amount of organics that badly.

Phoenix-D

[Fyron]

Well... converters go hand-in-hand with Monoliths.

Mineral Miners can only make 100 more minerals than Monolith IIIs can.

[Phoenix-D]

"Mineral Miners can only make 100 more minerals than Monolith IIIs can."

Ah, but isn't that 100 times the empire bonus, times the bonus of the planet they are on?

Phoenix-D