Help me improve my play

[SpaceOWL]

Most games are indeed winnable. The key is speed. If you spend resources on things that are not very useful you can fall behind quickly. Research can be a big resource hole, only a few techs are worth researching, and if you look through my games, I often stop at tier 2 or even tier 1 and rely on conquests only. The big thing to master is early warring. It yields much better gains that colony ships+factories and you cripple the enemies too.

Really glad to see you around the forum again thrawn! I hope you will have some free time for an OSG or a solo game

[shallow_thought]

Most games are indeed winnable.

I've been really amazed to read some of your game reports. I can't grasp your pacing which seems like it's several orders of magnitude better than my level of play. Joining this forum has really opened my eyes to the inefficiencies of my play and I love learning from the many masters here!

. Looking up, orders of magnitude feels right. Personally, I doubt I'm ever going to improve much more - if anything I've gone backwards over the last couple of years - but it's great to understand enough to appreciate exactly how good the play can be.

[haphazard1]

Like others have already said, following (and even better participating in) the games here is a great way to learn and improve. I have learned a lot from the players here, most of whom are way better than I am. (Or was, I am rusty these days. )