Masteroldschool

Bah, I give up in this game it seems your either a primary military power or your dead. My 15th try has yet again ended in being over run by the Yor this time. Thanks for all the advice but I just don't think this is my kind of game, I can't seem to win without being so powerful militarily that I can conquer the whole galaxy...at that point what's the point of a influence, diplomatic or tech victory when you have it made for the conquest win. I'm sure you will disagree with me but I

Thanks I'll try that, it's just frustrating me that I can't seem to beat the game in a peaceful manner. If I try a influence game they destroy all of my starbases when they declare war and I usually don't have time to arm them and if I try a tech victory I have to stop focusing on that and research new military tech to compete with their invading ships.

I'm a new player, my roommate has this game and has been letting me try it after he explained the gameplay. I was a fan of MoO and I use to play games similar to it for fun years ago. I decided to give this game a try and I love it but it's really lacking in some areas. I've only played 2 complete games(small galaxies, low difficultly) so far and I've been trying to start a game where I would win through either influence or tech but it seems impossible to play a peaceful race in this game. T