Help me improve my play

[utwig]

I win at impossible but not consistently. In case I cannot grab many worlds and enemies roll in with neutron blasters.



This is the game, initial save attached. Obviously colony goes to green and scouts go to white and red, while Meklon builds factories

[utwig]

Built colony on Crypto. I like to send 2M each turn so that home world builds up industry. I know you can send 3 per turn while keeping home world between 47 and 53 to get max growth but it's also good to have some tech or colony ships going.

[utwig]

Scouts are going to blue stars. Putting one scout on Crypto to cover from enemy scouts and colony ships.

Thrax is Jungle, so I will open propulsion with 10RP and then put 1 turn of all research. Is that correct to take advantage of research bonus?

[utwig]

Blue worlds are both rich but for now beyond our tech.

In propulsion tree only 4 fuel cells are available and Barren in planetology. In tiny games I would build a huge colony as it costs around 1500BC which is less than 6-parsec cells which come once worlds may be already colonized. Plan is to put Crypto on 10RP research while Meklon industrializes and builds ship.

[Ianus]

This one looks like a real challenge. I think I would trickle planetology and propulsion to grab that R4 barren and expand scouting, then hope to have R6 available while defending with laser fighters. Thrax looks like a crucial target given your isolated start. I’m curious about your AI races and galaxy layout. This one looks fun!

I haven’t played a good game in quite a while. I’d like to take a crack at this one if I can find the time. Can you post the save? I think you forgot to attach in your original post...

[utwig]

Here is the initial save. I attached 7z but apparently it didn't go through, so I'm attaching zip.

[utwig]

YUGE COL built




39 y to go, with allocating 1 to factories, it will be built in about same time as if allocating everything to ship.



Tech



Star map. Psilon, Klackon and Sakkra are all strong, Mrrshan and Bulrathi can be a nuisance if they get a lot of worlds.

[utwig]

Ship built, I discovered 4R and barren is on the way. Industrial tree opened with industrial tech 9

[utwig]

Prebuilding colony ship while barren is at 17%, yuge col is on the way to Thrax

[utwig]

Thrax founded, I already opened up computer II, will open weapons and force fields, we badly need class II shield and some missile. Problem is also no early cleanup tech.

This is the kind of game I struggle with as there are only 3 worlds, strong races and no cleanup early.



I'm 1st to 3 planets