Jumping in at the deep end
Heya,
New to the game and starting a MP game with a mix of cutthroats and new players in the next few days. I've been cramming, and although I haven't played this sort of thing multiplayer since I played (sucked at) VGA Planets and toyed with Stars!, I do have a lot of Moo1 time clocked, at any rate.
A few things:
It's been difficult for me to tell which 1.41 era bits of advice and warning are still relevant, and spaceempires urls don't work, which rules out a lot of "helpful advice" and other links.
I know enough about the nature of online gameplay to decide I want a specialized strategy and a minmaxed race. I appreciate the moral decrepitude of this position, but I want every edge I can get as a newb among the wolves. I've optimized a non-racial minmax with advanced storage (I know someone is shedding a single tear on a hillside for innocence) but I'm unsure if, for example, cultural traits are still broken. Are the production cultural bonuses (and the other ones that didn't work) still broken in 1.91? I see that Berzerker's seem to be popular with min-max crowd - perhaps this is because its -production bonus doesn't work? Or is it because all of the bonuses do work, like the combat one that used to not? All so confusing. I was also considering a scientist, since it doesn't have drawbacks and the cumulative tech bonus would be heading into Moo1 Psilon territory. (Well, not really. Moo1 psilons were absurd)
So, eh, help? I've read the minmax guide, which is in a post on this forum but not at the site where it is most often linked to. But I noticed in the same thread that opinion seemed to go against the Hardy Industrialist part of it, and the arguments convinced me, despite my inexperience at, eh, anything beyond turn 2.
Also, one thing about the "Harmony" that Stony seemed to emphasize so much - it seemed to be about not wasting minerals, by using excess mineral production but not eating into stockpiles. But, what is the disadvantage (apart from having less produced goods) to having a mineral surplus? Is the empire stockpile capped at a low level?
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