If you could give one bit of advice to someone?

wilhil · #1 November 5th, 2005, 06:22 PM

I just want to know, if you give just one bit of advice to someone new in the game, what would it be?

(you can't write read the FAQ!)

I love the game, but I am not a expert and cant give the best, but for me, I guess it would be something like...

(excluding if you are at max ships/units) remember if you are on + resources at end of turn and no storage for them, you will never get them back, so if you have a empty queue anywhere, build something you dont really need even if it is a few mines or fighters!

douglas · #2 November 5th, 2005, 07:11 PM

For stock, "min/max your empire".

In general, "Expand as much and as fast as possible".

Suicide Junkie · #3 November 5th, 2005, 07:16 PM

"No question is too small, trivial or oft-repeated to ask on these forums. Post politely, and be amazed."

Atrocities · #4 November 5th, 2005, 07:23 PM

Expand - Exploit - Exterminate - and Explore.

Alneyan · #5 November 5th, 2005, 08:05 PM

Like Douglas, "Economy isn't the dismal science out there". Or the time-honoured "Stellar Manipulation" motto.

kerensky · #6 November 5th, 2005, 09:37 PM

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wilhil said:
I love the game, but I am not a expert and cant give the best, but for me, I guess it would be something like...

(excluding if you are at max ships/units) remember if you are on + resources at end of turn and no storage for them, you will never get them back, so if you have a empty queue anywhere, build something you dont really need even if it is a few mines or fighters!

So the question remains, what if you had this many leftover resources at the end of a turn and every ship/cnstruction yard in your empire is building ships of the baseship and larger size?

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wilhil · #7 November 5th, 2005, 09:51 PM

LOL LOL LOL

well I kind of meant in the beggining of the game when you sometimes have like +10000, and just buy a few units!

are you doing the same thing I usually do late on in a game, and every planet is full with monoliths and valve improvers?

narf poit chez BOOM · #8 November 5th, 2005, 10:52 PM

"Don't do 'Just one more turn'. End your turn, go to sleep, and actually be able to do something tommorrow."

Suicide Junkie · #9 November 5th, 2005, 11:46 PM

Ugh.
How about "please don't break the forum formatting by posting enormous, uncropped images"...

Slick · #10 November 6th, 2005, 12:09 AM

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So the question remains, what if you had this many leftover resources at the end of a turn and every ship/cnstruction yard in your empire is building ships of the baseship and larger size?

Then, in a nutshell, you have too few spaceyards. You should be scrapping a facility on every planet that doesn't have a spaceyard to build one. And you should't be building baseships, you should be building Spaceyard Bases to add even more spaceyards.