UrWorstFear

McKey35, I feel for you. Until last summer, I didn't have a computer of my own. I had to share one with my brothers, and it is SLOWWWWWWWWWW. It has a 2.4Ghz cpu, 1 GB of RAM, and a 256 MB ati Radeon....9600, I think. I have tried to speed it up so I can play multiplayer games on the LAN I set up, but nothing works. I have uninstalled probably half the programs and manually deleted about 20GB of crap from the 75GB hard drive and nothing works. Ironically, it runs sins of a solar

I use almost that exact tactic all the time, minus the colony frigate and scout. I start out by building a scout, then sending it on it's way, and then building a colony frigate, which I leave at my base so it doesn't die. Next I build a Battleship, then pair it up with 5 light frigates and go on conquering. I conquer 2 or 3 plantes, find a choke point, and set them there until I get another fleet. If I have enough money, I will make small task forces of light frigates for plan

I don't play online since my internet really stinks, but I have found that getting the economy up early is very useful (obviously) but I didn't realize just how useful until yesterday when I was playing against a hard AI. Basically, they slaughtered my fleet after I assaulted their homeworld (not realizing that they had massed about 70 ships there), and I realized how weak I was and what a potential threat they were. Then I turned my entire economic might (I had been number 1 in economy

Thanks, I will try this. You have likely just saved me a lot of time and tears [e digicons]:D[/e]

Sorry, I'm new to soase online, but I really need to learn to play well so that if I ever get fast enough internet, I can live up to my name (UrWorstFear---my first choice, Data1701, was invalid). Problem is, everyone uses the latest update, 1.16. I cannot, for some reason, figure out how the heck to use impulse to get an update. I can start up impulse and go to the website, but can't use it to download the update. I have spent an hour today trying to get it but cannot, and now