Strategic Help for a trapped newbie

[Taqwus]

Don't forget that you only need to send *one* armored ship through the FWP -- a repair ship. Let it accompany a horde of normal colony ships, and it'll repair the damage (albeit slowly; may take multiple turns depending on repair shipony ship ratio. So you could send more than one if desired).

Also, the SM tree gives you Monolith Facilities. *Very* expensive to build, but worth it in a long game because they're so much more space efficient. And when combined with value improvement plants and (1) resource converter, so much the better...


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-- The thing that goes bump in the night

[raynor]

If you decide to build monolith facilities, you will get many, many more resources if you first fill the planet with level I or level II resource production facilities before you go back and start replacing them with Monolith III facilities.