Help with game stratagy

I'm not that good on strategy either, but fortunately threre are lots of people here who have developed theories for different tactics. Take a look at the threads in the Strategies forum and you'll probably find some topics for your situation.



Strategies forum

colonizing new planets is expensive... build more economic structures on your early planets it will pay off when your planets starts to develop, if you don't spend your intial cash right away you can run in the red for awhile to help your population grow, but you'll have to adjust the slider soon or later to keep from bankruptcy, then you have to live off small profits while continually bumping up your slider as time goes on...

One of the interesting points that I've read on extreme planets, is that no matter what, the AI will spend a large amount of their time researching the technologies to take at least one type of the 5 exotic planets at the beginning of the colony rush.

The benefit here is that they leave planetary invasion until later on in the game.

I can't remember which topics they were, there has been a fair amount of discussion on this so they should be easy to find, but in a nut shell if you dispense with trying to colonise those exotic planets in favour of gunning for planetary invasion you can gobble up many of the other races standard planets before they even have the means to retake them. Really I suggest you forget about the exotic planets until later on in the game.

just something to keep in mind, but on the second issue you're having it does sound like you're over extending your self in the mad rush for planets, Try to gobble up the planets that are PQ10+ first, and if your economy can support another then move onto the PQ9 and under.

And if those darn aliens take a nice lil PQ10+ Exotic planet in the area you wish to control, you can take it by force.

thanks for your help!
i really dont need the thread anymore.
so if mods close threads or lock them on this form then they can do so.