Opening tactics...

Stone Mill · #1 March 12th, 2003, 03:23 AM

Welcome Ceyan.

Actually, you are in luck... I was just putting something like this together. Should have it posted soon. Perhaps tomorrow...

Suicide Junkie · #2 March 12th, 2003, 03:57 AM

A good way to balance your development and your military is to have piles of Spaceyards.
You can then keep pumping out colony ships while you build your military.

With your homeworld, design and build 3 to 5 Bases with Spaceyards.
For other spaceyard planets, build a few orbital yards as well. Just keep an eye on your maintenance costs.

If maintenance gets too high, start mothballing the warships you create on the spot. These reserves will cost you nothing to maintain, and can be reactivated on one turn's notice for 25% of the build price, I believe.

mac5732 · #3 March 12th, 2003, 04:43 AM

In addition to SJ and Fyron's advice, research mines as soon as possible, they are good for initial defense while you expand, build some colony ships and then build a space base or 2, this way you can build colony ships and yet build some military ships as well, Some players like to build killer sats in beginning to go with the mines, also you want to research point defense within you lst 15 turns or so as they are good against missle attacks, so if you build mines, weapon platforms and maybe some killer sats in beginning, this should keep you in there for awhhile, but against human player you'll have to adjust to researching ships at least to BC's along with propulsion. good luck

just some ideas mac

QuarianRex · #4 March 12th, 2003, 05:13 AM

And for the love of god make sure that you have some defense on each planet. I can't count the number of times that I have lost colonies when an enemy ship manages to penetrate, or circumvent, my warp-point defense and glass a few worlds. Conversely, the presence of a couple weapon platfoms or some defense sats (less useful) has saved my arse from just such a fate time and time again.

baetis · #5 March 12th, 2003, 06:46 AM

Check out this thread:

Opening Strategies

It was my first post here, and the replies were extremely helpful.

[ March 12, 2003, 04:59: Message edited by: baetis ]