Newbie Game

brianeyci · #1 September 23rd, 2004, 01:03 PM

I'm "relatively new"... but I think I'm rather good, so I
don't know if you want me

All the stuff I know can be summarized in the following sentences. Avoid missiles like the plague, get point defense and military science II early, get mines II early, light carriers are awesome warships early on, get DUC V early, use PPB's mid-game, don't fall behind in research, expand like mad early on, make sure your race can build a colonizer on emergency build on your homeworld in one turn, and Last but most important make sure you max-min your race like Asmala does lol (see links below). Okay, so the above was a run-on sentence, so sue me lol.

I'll give you the links that I've read about so far...
http://www.spaceempires.net/home/mod...showpage&pid=1

http://www.spaceempires.net/home/mod...op=getit&lid=1

http://newbiefaq.spaceempires.net/

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/ubbup...ategyGuide.zip

And of course the mother
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...b=5&o=&fpart=1

Brian

Arakiel · #2 September 23rd, 2004, 01:27 PM

Dang...after reading that min/maxing article I have to redesign my favorite race again

man there are so many details to this game its great...easy to get lost in...but great

OK so we have 1 ... i'm thinking we need at least 5 humans for a viable game so anyone else?

brianeyci · #3 September 23rd, 2004, 02:09 PM

Well... I guess it depends on what kind of game you want. If you want a really competitive game... or you want to RP... or something in the middle... in a couple of my games that I took over, I'm nowhere near the top and I'm having fun... but max/minning is fun at least in the beginning. Also I think that there are ways to fit in racial traits... if Asmala can max/min his race and include crystallurgy, why not organics/temporal/religious? Makes the game more interesting than everybody having a bezerker race. Also, the merchant type race seems interesting, more variety and you can do without space ports!

narf poit chez BOOM · #4 September 23rd, 2004, 02:38 PM

Merchants are overpriced.

brianeyci · #5 September 23rd, 2004, 02:48 PM

hrm are you talking about the "natural merchants" racial ability, or the merchants society type? "natural merchants" isn't as cool as advance storage, hardy industralists and propulsion experts... but if you can do without the extra 1 move point, which is miniscule considering that ships stop when they warp into new systems, isn't merchants okay?

Fyron · #6 September 23rd, 2004, 02:50 PM

You can avoid ships stopping in new systems. Just order them to move to the center of the unexplored system after giving them the order to warp through the warp point...

brianeyci · #7 September 23rd, 2004, 02:51 PM

how do you do that when the system is marked "unexplored"?

narf poit chez BOOM · #8 September 23rd, 2004, 03:17 PM

Quote:

brianeyci said:
hrm are you talking about the "natural merchants" racial ability, or the merchants society type? "natural merchants" isn't as cool as advance storage, hardy industralists and propulsion experts... but if you can do without the extra 1 move point, which is miniscule considering that ships stop when they warp into new systems, isn't merchants okay?

Is one extra facility space in each system really worth 1000 points?

brianeyci · #9 September 23rd, 2004, 05:41 PM

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narf poit chez BOOM said:
Is one extra facility space in each system really worth 1000 points?

Sure it is, it saves you three turns to build the space port. That's three turns times 500 research, you're 1500 research ahead! lol now that I think of it, maybe not. And from what I have read, one extra move point can mean the difference between moving first and moving Last -- or not moving at all lol. Guess its advance storage, hardy industralists and propulsion experts all the way. And perhaps organics, although you'll take a hit in your overall stats... but the organic armor is too good to pass up lol.

Brian