How the **** do yu keep up in tech

[Puke]

yeah, difficulty to high - always. otherwise, they dont use fleets and do lots of really dumb things that make the game boring. if you are having a hard time, turn their bonus off.

the AI bonus multiplies their construction rates, research, and resource generation by up to five times. unless you are playing in a large quadrant and are good at expanding, its hard to stay ahead in points when the ai has a large bonus.

which reminds me of one of the easiest tricks to expanding quickly: the first thing you should build ought to be a space yard base over each homeworld. consider emergency building them if your construction bonus is not enough to build them in one turn, and consider building between 2 and 5 of them, depending on your resource income and starting position. you wont get colonies quite as quick, but you will get LOTS more of them by the time your colony ships start rolling off the lines.

[ March 31, 2004, 00:06: Message edited by: Puke ]