what are the basics of the colony rush?

Adam55502

Join Date 08/2004

what are the basics of the colony rush?

Main question is what type of ship do you build. Do you go for fastest, cheapest or highest capasity.

I know the buying vs. building of colony ships is largely dependent on map size and layout, thus length of the rush. Seems for a shorter rush it is better to buy and for the long rush it is better to pace your self. On the big maps I usally see the AI have an initial lead over me that becomes a lag when there econimes crash and I can still produce colonly ships at a decent rate.

What I am looking for is your general colonly rush stratigy, since it seems most games are won or loss in the rush. I want to see what everyone else does to see how to improve my rush strat.

Please include your slider settings, how you set your tax rate, how you chose what plaents to initaly colinize(quality or quantity initialy), how you chose what to build on these plants initals if anything(ie leaving them empty tell there pop grows), how you handle planent focus. Also what tecks you get first, what ships you build, weither you build colonly ships on your new colonies or not. What are your general goals for the colonly rush excluding the obvious get more planents. Please also include map settings you use this strat for.

Please let me know how you deal with the critical colonly rush period.

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I just use the standard colony ship but play as a superbreeder with maxed morale stats and population growth stats so the number of inital colonists really doesnt affect me. I am pretty noob myself having only posted one metaverse game but theres my thoughts

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Thanks for telling me about the 'all' and flip strategies. I'm using it right now.

Just started a new game (Thalan, obscene and large/common, very slow research) and I had a bad starting location squeezed between two aggressive races. I did a decent colony rush, but my military and tech were lagging far behind the AI. A bunch of the AI started blackmailing me for money. I was so weak that I was forced to pay off some, but they kept asking for more and more.

I soon realized that I would never build a reasonable military in time before they attacked. I flipped all production tiles to all research and tried desperately to get tech, especially more diplomacy, planetary invasion and spin control center. Unfortunately, the Arcean finally got annoyed me and declared war. This was a problem because the Arcean had by far the best starting location and was leading every category.

I had a merry time using my now superior diplomacy to convince all the other races to attack the Arcean.

That worked out so well that I decided to convince every other AI to declare war on everyone else. So it's an all out war for everyone except me. I'm free to focus on just the Arceans, while he's trying to fend off enemies from all sides.

All the AI other than the Arceans have better relations with me as well.

If I hadn't gone to 'all research' and gotten a bunch of techs and diplomacy, I would have died a quick and painful death.

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