Newbie PBW Suggestions Needed

[Commander G2]

A number of suggestions:
1) Research (or trade for) Mil Sci 1 and Point Defenses right away in case you meet an early agressor armed to the hilt with missles and has point defenses.
2) If I remember right from the one time I played a Psych race is they have a very powerful small weapon for fighters.
3) Do not play a neutral race.
4) Make as many treaties as you can to gain resources and research.
5) Colonize as much as you can.
6) Use satelites and weapon platforms to make you planets able to survive a small fleet attack (1 or 2 ships). Satellites are always an unknown factor because sometimes attacks come from the other side. Put one missle and one point defense on each of these.

[CW]

Make damned sure you rehearse your attacks in the simulator first every time. I've lost more ships in the first 40 turns of a humans vs AIs game than I have ever lost in any solo games. You won't believe how stupid the Artificial Idiot is in strategic combat.

[capnq]

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I uploaded my own empire, but used another uploaded shipset made by an independent player. How will this affect my game? I noticed there were AI.txt files there as well...and wanted to be sure I'm still in control.

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All the other players in the game need to download and install the same shipset you're using. If they don't have it, it won't affect you, but in their turns they will see a different flag, race portrait, and shipset randomly assigned to your empire every turn. It's not a fatal problem, but it can be quite confusing.

The AI files won't have any effect unless you turn a minister on, or the AI runs your turn, which only happens if you miss the turn deadline or upload a turn that doesn't work for some reason.

Come to think of it, the AI files might only be used to run your turn if the shipset is installed on the PBW server. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong about that.

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Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"