Hey, look me up on steam (Lethargic Chii). I just got the game for Christmas from my father in Arizona, haven't seen the old guy in years; miss him. He's still playing these kinds of games at age 50! (He introduced me to them when I was like 10; we would play Dark Reign and Starcraft over our LAN) I'm glad he did though, this game is unique and I'm decent at RTS and Strategy games.
I played a few solo games, but, would get 3-5 hours in and then want to restart because I think I made it too easy or too hard. I set up a solo game using Kahuna's guide (Which I also read top to bottom) and it seems good so far. I got the game for another long time friend of mine and he got it for his wife, and then another of my friends got it too. So if you want, we could even get a 5 player game going one of these days. For now I could just do with a 2 player game with someone who's a bit more experienced then I am.
My problem is I keep wanting to take everything in sight and then the AI just crushes me with waves ;-;. Not very nice. Me and that long time friend, Mr. GaSp, (Yes, stylized like that and don't forget it lol) are currently playing on a snake map with Kahuna's guide settings. We decided to make it a challenge to take all the systems all the way to the end. We found the shards and now we are like 13 planets deep and keeping back huge waves (This is with Ultra Low Unit cap) and the threat was like 6k at one point in time. We went in and struck it hard using our Regen Golem we found but, it still is at like 3k. We are worried to say the least lol. We have the capital now, and the AI did NOT like that at all.
Sorry for the wall of text, I haven't been on any forums in years. Hope to see you around! o/