So much to learn!

[Renegade 13]

Personally, I would NOT, under most circumstances, ever abandon your home system. Waaaay to valuable, and what's the point anyways??

If you're having some trouble keeping enemy ships back, first make sure you can detect them cloaked. Then sit on the most obvious invasion route for the enemy with as many ships as you can muster. If you are guarding other warp points that haven't you haven't been attacked through in a while, move most (but not all!) of those ships to guard the vulnerable warp point. Of course, in Multiplayer games, this can be taken advantage of. Send a few small fleets through the one warp point to distract the enemy from the real invasion point, which was then weakened by your withdrawing forces from it...you get the picture.

Most of all though, the biggest advice I can give you is to try new things, innovative things, and learn. Find what works best for you, since other people's strategies may not be comfortable for you. Trust me, the process of learning and trying new things, and then having your new innovative strategy actually work are some of the most enjoyable parts of the game.

[Imperious_Leader]

I CAN'T BELIVE I'VE BEEN SO STUPID!

Ok it's turn 647 I have expanded to 9 systems , have colonized 49 planets,and I still have no resources!I couldn't afford to build 10 mines and buy a cup of coffee at the same time.Literaly if I wanted a cup of coffee I would have to put the build que for the mines on hold for a turn buy myself a coffee then resume the mines next turn.How the hell can you reach the point where you can afford to build ships?Turn 648 built another monilith....still no coffee in the near future but won't have to mothball anything or put anything on hold.The system where I'm holding the Ukra-Tal at bay is like and open wound bleeding out the pitiful resources I have.Can't afford to build ships and mines at the same time can't stop building mines ergo can't build ships to take the war to them.I consider myself a deffensive player but even for me just sitting here and letting them come to me is driving me nuts.Sure it's draining them too, they have lost aprox 90 dreadnaughts so far,the cost of which must be frightning.But they're building the d***ed things at the rate of about 5 every 2 turns.If it were not for the mines I'd be history.Turn 649 oh great one of my planets has rebelled and gone over to the Drushocka.It's in an out of the way system and they're compleatly cut off but still I can't just do nothing.....lets see I have a few ships mothballed nearby....how much wuuld it cost to activate one of them for a few turns....feeling more and more like an accountant...sigh......hmmmm.....I think it would be more cost effective to build a few troops ,divert the population carrier that I've been using to build up my colonies.....no mines for the next turn but the Ukra-Tal haven't been through the warp point in a few turns so the mine field is stable.Built the troops,and I've been wanting to try them out anyway.Ok soI retake the planet with no problem no loses on my side hopefully I'll be able to use then some time in the future.Time to check the books and make sure I can afford to build some more mines..........what the hell I have a surplus of almost 20000 everything!I didn't build any moniliths this turn what gives....the only thing diffrent is the planet I reaquired...what wonderus miracle have those sweet Drushocka wrought.One look at the planet and I know what an idiot I've been.When I played the demo I really didn't colonize outside my home systems....maybe a planet or two but nothing signifigant.Mostly I played around with ship designs.I'm embarrased to tell you all what I overlooked but maybe this will be helpful to someone else new so ....what did I not build in any of the systems that I had expanded into?????????????????????????????????????????????

if you said spaceports you're right.Soooooo supid!After building spaceports in all my systems I now have surpluses of almost 90000 in all resources every turn,I guess I can buy that coffee now ....hell why don't you all have a coffee....I'm buying.Ok now that I have totaly embarrased mysely I'm just going to go to my room now and hide.


Question though first, whe I built stuff in other systems without spaceports it did seem to make some small diffrence without a spaceport do you still get a small trickle of income or am I just seeing the normal eb and flow of the ecconomie of my home systems and thinking its new income?

[Will]

I remember doing that in SEIII

The day I realized my mistake, was the day Natural Merchants became my favorite racial trait (no spaceports needed).

[Captain Kwok]

Ouch!

[Alneyan]

Renegade 13 said:
Personally, I would NOT, under most circumstances, ever abandon your home system. Waaaay to valuable, and what's the point anyways??

Indeed. If you don't like your home system, just blow it up: cheaper, painless and faster than evacuating the whole place. Who cares about the four billion slav... citizens living in the system? I am indeed an Evil Overlord.