It is the hardest spot in 5v5, I hope I won't get in it very often as I am far from excellent player and I often make mistakes under heavy pressure (as i am not a robot).

Tactics: 1. stay alive, longer being alive, the more you helped your team.

  2. reach the inner planets near the Sun, from where you can maybe restart your mission with help of others,

  and maybe get next to an ally who can cover you and from feed try to rebuilt something. I read it somewhere on this forum.

  3. try to save a ship that can colonize and move in the middle of your allies who will give you a planet (easy to say, I have never seen  someone succeeding in it.. but it is somewhat possible to do, and after that just like in the 2. part, rebuild etc)

  4. If everything failed yes, give away all your resources as you will not be able to use them any longer.. and ask teammates not to pump resources in you as you have no way to make real use of them, and maybe try saving as big fleet as you can and lead it to one of your allies, if nothing else they will help in defending after you are defeated completely.

Just don't panic, maybe one of your allies will save one of your sides by attacking your opponent early, putting heavy pressure on him.

I am not an experienced 5v5 player, so I am curious what others will say about this.

Lots of good advice and thinking in these first two posts. I would emphasize to keep in mind: "because I held my ground, the other team never developed the proper eco to take on our team late game...." and "stay alive, longer being alive, the more you helped your team." That is, some folks think, "God, I'm in suicide position, I need to turtle and sb." Well, with such thinking turned into action, game is now 5v4 instead of 5v5.

For sure, you can expect to eventually lose your HW if you are truly in suicide position, so the real question of victory is: how much "time damage" did you do to the other team, thereby helping your own team greatly. So, my advice:

1. Step #1: FLEET, FLEET, FLEET, and ATTACK, ATTACK, ATTACK, but do not lose any of your fleet. Just retreat if enemy shows up. Stay in this stage one of Step #1 as long as possible. Ideally during this stage, you have 3 planets. You keep your fleet on the middle planet and jump as needed to defended your neighboring planets.

2. Step #2: Eventually the enemy gets its act together and it's obvious that you will lose your fleet. You need to keep up scouting so you can predict when they are getting together this kind of fleet. Once you see this ball in motion, run your fleet back to your HW (do not lose it!), research your starbase tech, and get your starbase on your homeworld. Write off your two side planets. Right about now is when you indicate to your eco player that you need feed. Build up the starbase and some surrounding defenses "just enough" that the enemy will not attack you; don't over build because then you are wasting your team's feed resources. You also need to get some culture up. Now you sit there with your HW and your fleet. A good enemy will now ignore you. Then you use your fleet to harrass enemy more. In this regard, before you lose your two side planets, it's good to get some "over fleet supply" by researching up the tech tree. Because once you lose those side planets and have 3 frigate facts + 2 culture centers on your HW, you are only going to have 1 tech centers. So you need to get up your fleet supply, even though you don't build the ships, to something like 600 in advance, so you can sit there and keep building ships. The enemy will want to ignore you but won't be able to do so when you're building up the fleet.

3. Step #3: The enemy is finally getting what it needs to take out your HW. You are well into midgame by now. Make sure you got some colonizers out and across the center of the map to your allies so that they can give you a little droid to make your new capital (and 3 frigates factories) on. Meanwhile, when the big bad enemy killer fleet finally shows up on your HW, RUN RUN RUN. Run your 600 fleet supply and terrorize the enemy's back planets. Scuttle everything on your HW, including your nice starbase, so that the enemy does not get any experience.

With this aggressive "suicide position" plan, you have helped your team a whole lot. And you are still having fun running around the map with your 600 fleet supply fleet (never engage enemy, always just run, unless you have overwhelming advantage, since it's hard for you to rebuild fleet, unless your allies give you that droid with 3 frigate factories). Your enemy will hate you. You are smiling. Your team is winning.

I'm surrounded!

Great! Now I can attack in any direction!

The suicide spot is the best spot possible. Just choose the weakest player next to you... something secret... and profit.

u need a lot of feed and 2-3 military labs. just ask to be fed by all the team and concentrate on t2 and t3 units with repair platforms. 

This is a lie. How do you know they were Chinese and why are you making it obvious that they were Chinese and you alone-one man with your fortress of solitude-held your ground against the red army? Why couldn't you just say I was being attacked by 2 opponents? Are you trying to imply that you alone can witstand the might of 2 Chinese players-or are you also implying that Chinese players are superior sins players and the fact that you stood tall against them makes you chuck Norris?

QFT

There is no single answer here, it relies on what kind of players the enemy are. Are they defensive or aggressive? How spread out are they? How well are u fortified in the SS? How is everyone's tech level?

If the enemy has a truly overwhelming force, it might be best to lose the SS and beat a tactical retreat with some losses rather than try and hold the SS and getting steamrolled. If they have surrounded u, chances are their at least somewhat spreadout, so try and lead a massive breakout to the allied front line to reestablish a supply line. Or if u hav a Kostura Cannon ready, use it together with phase gates, Marauder Capital Ships or another KC to make a supply line or escape route.

Probably the best strategy to begin with is to advance in tandem with your allies so that u never get too surrounded and cut off.

Hes right.

Only use capital ships with the most fire-power and required abilities: Colonize, AOE Repair, AOE Disable (Devastator:Vasari), ( Discord: Psionic-Scream) and carriers.

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your rich!

One more question: Why is there a suicide spot in a $40 game? $40 to suicide? Seriously?~

The LTE modem/Router was expensive but the connection for gaming is a 3gb bundle. Its just I would say only $40 moo . That's too many dollars if your working hard for them but if your parents are paying then well-may as well be nothing in the minds of todays younger generation.

Although I don't do much with my cash. I'm rather stingy. Too Irish for my own good