Strategic Help for a trapped newbie

[raynor]

I would recommend against buiding ships with armor to go through the warp points. Instead, I would just mass produce colony ships. Eventually, one will get out with an intact colonization component. Be very nice to whoever is on the other side, and they will probably let you colonize a planet in that system. Build a repair facility or shipyard on that planet to repair any other colony ships that come through. Or, better yet, stop building colony ships on the inside and start building everything on the outside.

I played a game in which I had an unstable wormhole as the only wormhole leading out of my homeworld system to a blackhole system. This was just against AI players. It turned out to be my easiest game ever because the AI's could never get to my homeworld. It is pretty much a well-documented problem that the AI doesn't handle blackhole systems very well. OTOH, the human players...