Thelkin

The game I am playing now I tried that exact strategy, just bought colony ships till I almost went broke. Still had quite a few turns whilst nothing got built. However, it got me some prime real estate and a boost ahead of the others that they haven't caught up with. It does work IF you can get some prime planets and can keep them all off your backs until you turn your economy around. It will slow down production and research, so it is a trade off. If you could predict, e

Useful, but ugly. Defines my ships. Have only been playing a little over a week now I am concentrating on startegies and learning before going into ship design. My functional (but ugly) ships are designed on the race I am going to attack. Weapon strength vs their weakness, defence vs their main weapon. They have an engine, or two. Weapons and defenses. Sometimes sensors/etc. Then they thrown into battle. A "design with these bits" button would save a minute or two at most