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A couple more questions. How do you get a planet to culture flip? There have been times where I've surrounded an asteroid on all sides and had my culture go all the way through the jump to their planet on every side and still had it not flip. Is there a trick I'm missing or is it nearly impossible to flip a planet? Also it seems right now my biggest hurdle is how to manage my empire well, particularly my ships. How do you all get

This is all great information to give me a great start. Something I read somewhere that I'd like to have confirmed...building multiple trade ports on the same planet IS a good idea? Each of them will add a significant amount of credits? In this case should you designate a few systems as "trade systems"? And just build the mines and the trade ports? Reading the wiki, I assume it is worthwhile to build orbital refineries...I thought in the game it said

That was all great info Darvin, thanks a lot. In my current game I've got 2 opponents in my star system and two others in other star systems (not sure if it's one each yet, or if they're fighting over one of them. I'm mowing down the one opponent in my star system pretty well, and fortunately the other guy has mostly left me alone. I let him take one asteroid and he stopped after that. I've managed to get trade alliances and such with the two not in my star system, b

Hey Guys, I'm new to this game, just have a few plays in and need some help on some basic strategy to help me get going. I've poked around on this forum and a couple of sites and can't find what I'm really looking for, if you could point me in the right direction or give me some tips I'd really appreciate it. I've read several of the threads here, but still haven't found out a lot of what I'm looking for. Sorry if this is someplace obvious, but I did