Strategy Guide 1.0 (SEIV)
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Strategy Guide (SEIV) 1.0
Getting Started
No one seems to dispute your first three steps: Colonize, colonize, colonize. Put a colony on every planet (and some say moon) you can in your home system. This provides you with additional resources as well as room to grow your population and build facilities for SEIV while hopefully preventing your neighbors from establising a foothold.
The next step for expansion is to go exploring. If you are worried about the possibility of neighbors close by, you may want to delay this until you have gotten some defenses in place, but if you want to grab real estate you have to get a colony on it before they do. This also applies to grabbing "advanced technology" lying around in ancient ruins. You have to build a colony on the "special" planet before anyone else, which automatically gets you the loot.
After that you start to get into differences of opinion which really boil down to a matter of "style" of play. Decide on your basic style for each game and stay focussed on researching the techs which will benefit that style. Trying to research everything in the beginning is a sure way to lose early.
External Links
- link to Getting Started Game Guide?
