If you could give one bit of advice to someone?

[wilhil]

I just want to know, if you give just one bit of advice to someone new in the game, what would it be?

(you can't write read the FAQ!)

I love the game, but I am not a expert and cant give the best, but for me, I guess it would be something like...

(excluding if you are at max ships/units) remember if you are on + resources at end of turn and no storage for them, you will never get them back, so if you have a empty queue anywhere, build something you dont really need even if it is a few mines or fighters!

[douglas]

For stock, "min/max your empire".

In general, "Expand as much and as fast as possible".

[Suicide Junkie]

"No question is too small, trivial or oft-repeated to ask on these forums. Post politely, and be amazed."

[Atrocities]

Expand - Exploit - Exterminate - and Explore.

[Alneyan]

Like Douglas, "Economy isn't the dismal science out there". Or the time-honoured "Stellar Manipulation" motto.

[Parasite]

Atrocities said:
Expand - Exploit - Exterminate - and Explore.

Besides this advice, I would say be friends with everyone but your enemies. When you attack the others, kill them fast, consolidate and move to the next enemy. Long wars benefit noone, only keep you alive when you should be expanding.

[dogscoff]

/me selects random quote for the "seven habits of highly effective pirates":

Rule 37: There is no overkill. There is 'open fire' and 'time to reload'.

[Starhawk]

Not entirely true Parasite Long wars benefit you if your winning because it helps you EXPAND (via conquering/glassing enemy planets) and keeps your enemy from expanding.

If on the other hand you are losing a long war (or are losing enough numbers/resources that another enemy will overwhelm you) then you need to switch to a defensive strategy that employs lots of mines and warp point choke hold defenses.

For example in my one game I had 3 larger AI empires attacking my empire (fortunately at that point only 2 warp points led to my empire) so I laid Gigantic minefields and placed my warfleets at each warp point as I waited to rebuild.

If I lost a system I would simply blockade the next, sure i lost 8 star systems in 5 years and about 80 ships (which was a HUGE chunk of my navy) but in the end i whittled them down with attrition until their invasion fleets basically just ran out of steam and had to repair.

While they did that I rebuilt and launched a MASSIVE assult against the Cue Cappa systems, and in 20 years I not only retook my space but expanded to twice my original size (and the one enemy was totally washed away in the counter assault).


It all depends on how you play a long war out.

[Fyron]

douglas said:
For stock, "min/max your empire".

...according to the principles of this article. Having less than 30% aggressiveness and defensiveness racial bonuses is asking to lose due to poor stock combat bonus system...

[Fyron]

DeKaye, please reference this post:

Imperator Fyron said:

...according to the principles of this article. Having less than 30% aggressiveness and defensiveness racial bonuses is asking to lose due to poor stock combat bonus system...