DahrAmahr

Victory! on a small small map with one star and 7 planets (pirates on). Actually those mentioned pirates were my key to victory. Well timed pirate raid that made the opponent retreat to defend his homeworld gave me the time needed to assemble my forces and to follow him. One more thing I've discovered. Seems to me that building more than one shipyard on one planet is pointless. It doesn't mean 2 ships are being build simultanously and it doesn't make 1 ship being build twi

Thanks alot. So basically Asteroid fields are waste of money but still are valid source of metal and crystals (and nothing prevents me from establishing a trading post on it). Awesome, thanks for the advie. On a related topic I finaly managed to finish one game (1 on 1 with AI) and got wrecked due to massive joined forces between pirates and hostile AI. They've timed their attack and wasted my entire fleet. Thou I know what mistake I've made... having only 1 frigate factory is

I have created an account on this forum just to bump this threat up. It perrfectly does it's job which is to help new players to grasp the basic concepts of the game (without explaining advanced tactics or even guiding someone move by move how to win). I haven't finished a single game yet (not enough time and I preffer playing on large maps with 1 sun thou so the game shold take quite some time) but the summary in the end showed me that I did something terribly wrong, not to mention t