signoftheserpent

will do thanks.

Man, I'm really not getting the hang of this at all. I find it really hard to expand quick enough.

Ok, thanks for the help.

Yes I know but even so you don't get a lot as you start with a frigate factory anyway. Building a capital ship factory takes another bunch of slots and you would probably want one of those. Expanding the empire seems rreally hard as well since you just don't get that much money to build and research a decent fleet quickly. I playe the game on easy and I've turned the pirates off for now, but even so I see the AI is developing quicker than me, despite me taking a couple of nearby asteroids (the p

the strategy i used is based on my experience with other rts style games as that's how the tech trees are set up. You focus on bulding up to one uber unit as fast as possible, which means focusing on your chosen path and going for it hopefully quciker than the enemy. I am new at this game and so i wasn't sure what else to do. Plus you don't have that many logistics slots per planet for things like labs - 3 at most (2 usually if you include a ship buliding base).

Thanks for the replies, but what I mean is how do you use them? As I said in another thread, I like the game - I even like the idea of pirates - but I don't really know what to do. I don't know how many ships to build or how to proceed. My basic strat is to focus on the one tech aspect I'm going for (eg Diplomacy) and build toward that. But when I want to expand I notice that there's people at every planet so I have to have something - and sometimes these forces can be quite large. I wasn't

What do envoy cruisers actually do? Is there any point trying to play diplomatically with the ai when it just doesn't listen to you anyway. Every offer of peace is rejected, so is there much point? Does playing with the Diplomacy expansion include the Entrenchment stuff as well (ie everything thus far; I have both). Is it really worth playing with pirates? They seem to end up attacking me anyway even when i've bought them off to fight someone else (i assume i must have forgotten and got

I must say I'm struggling with this game. It's easy to use the controls and the interface is simple, but trying to figure out what and how much to build is really hard. I have no idea how many ships to build or how to really expand. I build a few scouts to start and try and tech up, but everywhere seems to be filled with enemy ships. I don't understand how that's possible right at the start! Every planet i travel to is occupied! I play the game on easy to try and get the hang of it and i find