1v1. One player is TEC. For them, which should be prioritized: getting 2 or 3 trade ports up ASAP, or colonizing everything in sight? With a colonizer cap going one direction and colony frigate / scouts going in the other direction, given the rate I try to colonize, I find I rarely have enough funds for even a single trade port until after I acquire and develop my 6th planet or so (11 ish minutes in), right when I'm starting to bump into the enemy. Is this a mistake? The problem, of course, is at that time, I'll be needing to invest in an offensive fleet very quickly to put pressure on the enemy, meaning that the initial investment required for a few trade ports is probably best put off until a bit later... but that "bit later" I start to need funds ASAP to replace destroyed units... but waiting until after that is kind of negating TEC's biggest strength of early trade.