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[Iansidious]

Just to throw my two cents in I personaly like to take physical strenght,intelligence[i never really use it],cunning,and political savvy down to -50% then bump up construction aptitude to 150% the hightest it can go.Then I like to add my ship atk. and def. as high as I get it.Under advance traits I select temporal knowledge[for the temp.spaceyard]and hardy industrialists in the game this allows me to build with 11kt in construction! Some thing I do slowly during my game I start to convert my min. org. rad. facilities with monoliths then my homeworld can make about 34kt on each resource.This is one thang I have had nice results with.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Stone Mill:
Only, I'm not sure about the strategy behind
"Change fleet target priorities to kill minesweeping/stellar/supply ships first."
Does this actually work, and what is the value?

If you set your fleets to target non-combatant ships, you can knock out the support ships of large fleets. This has great value if you can not destroy the fleet directly. Knock out their sweepers, and they might just die on your next minefield.

You missed the "launch mines in empty sectors" trick. Launch mines in sectors that are along the ship paths between warp points. People often do not suspect that someone will have launched mines in empty space, only over planets and warp points.

[rextorres]

All these help increase your mobility in a game - they may be "gamey" but they are allowed:

You can order your ship to retrofit and THEN move on the same turn. Move it to a forward repair facility or repair ship and it will get retrofitted, moved, AND repaired - all in the same turn - if you are a retroseries builder this helps a lot.

String training facilities to your front lines - a ship gets training at the end of a movement turn. That way your ship doesn't have to sit in one spot to get trained - it can train as it moves.

You can order a ship to warp and THEN move into and unexplored system. It will then move it's full movement and you won't get stuck at a warp point.

[Slick]

bump.

[Atrocities]

Slick said:
bump. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

[Slick]

El Bumpo. Stoney where are you???