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douglas · #1 November 29th, 2004, 01:47 PM

Very bad strategy. You should always keep colonizing new systems until there are no unclaimed systems left, and you should do it quickly so as many of them are yours as possible. I think you may also be researching the other colony techs too soon. They are very expensive at 500000 research points each, and should not be researched until you can either do it quickly (I'd say 3-4 turns each max) or you have no important techs left to research that aren't also rather expensive (depends on the situation and the specific tech, but I'd say typically around 200000, though sensors and combat support 3 at 225000 are an exception).

Col. Mustard · #2 November 29th, 2004, 02:43 PM

Thats another thing. These neural networks or whatever, and those ship training and fleet training things, I never use them. I rarely waste points on sensors either.

douglas · #3 November 28th, 2004, 09:44 PM

Sounds like you must be making at least one MAJOR mistake. Hmm. Are you, perhaps, neglecting to build spaceports in new systems? Post a savegame where you are just starting to lose miserably, and I'll see if I can figure out why.

President_Elect_Shang · #4 December 1st, 2004, 12:24 AM

You�re kidding right? I beat this game straight from �the box�, hence why I came here looking for Mods and suggestions to make it harder.

You are kidding right?

Col. Mustard · #5 December 1st, 2004, 03:20 AM

No, they arent kidding. They arent saying its hard, they are saying its long, tedius, and boring. After your in 1st place for a while, with 2nd far behind, you get bored. You know you won, so why drag it out any longer?

kerensky · #6 December 1st, 2004, 05:55 PM

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You know you won, so why drag it out any longer?

Exactly...

Slick · #7 December 1st, 2004, 05:59 PM

I almost always set a victory condition for percent score for the leader over the #2 player. This the game will actually be won by someone without actually having to exterminate all traces of all other empires.

Slick.

President_Elect_Shang · #8 December 1st, 2004, 06:12 PM

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Slick said:
I almost always set a victory condition for percent score for the leader over the #2 player. This the game will actually be won by someone without actually having to exterminate all traces of all other empires.

Slick.

I don�t know there is something about total extermination that tosses my cookies.

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Col Mustard said:
This is getting rediculous. I can't freaking beat the game! I've had it for almost a year, and every single time I play I loose miserably. I even crank all the settings to easy, and give myself all the boosts I can. I simply can't win. Just a min ago I lost while the attacking player (AI) had 2.0M while I had not even 300K score. what on earth is going on here?

Hay if you are saying it gets boring than I can understand, but your original post sounded like you just couldn�t beat it. Now if I misunderstood than my fault.

Slynky · #9 December 1st, 2004, 06:21 PM

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Slick said:
I almost always set a victory condition for percent score for the leader over the #2 player. This the game will actually be won by someone without actually having to exterminate all traces of all other empires.

Slick.

That's the way I do it, too, Slick. I think 800% is the number usuall use.