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Offline Harry

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Re: Late-game advice for a newb?
« Reply #15 on: December 11, 2012, 10:20:20 am »
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Offline keith.lamothe

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Re: Late-game advice for a newb?
« Reply #16 on: December 11, 2012, 10:33:22 am »
Congratulations!  It generally takes folks several games to get up to speed, but then hit their stride.  Dying a lot still happens, but that's at least half the fun :)

And yea, if you play fast you can probably burn through a vanilla 7/7 in 4-5 hours once you know what you're doing unless it's got something nasty going on.  8-10 hours is more common.  The FS campaign is slower than that, though, depending on how far you pursue it.
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Re: Late-game advice for a newb?
« Reply #17 on: December 11, 2012, 01:02:37 pm »
Four to five hours!  I will have to overcome my hyper-cautious instincts to play that fast.  :) 

I knew I was going slowly when I started getting achievements like "Long Campaign" and "In it for the Long Haul" and "From Here to Eternity", or some such.  :P  This for a 60-planet map on 4/5, heh. 

Going to fire up the Spire campaign tonight.  Can't wait!

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Re: Late-game advice for a newb?
« Reply #18 on: December 19, 2012, 11:03:05 am »
Just one advice: Before you harvest the first shard, have your fleet ready. That's all I'm saying ;)
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Re: Late-game advice for a newb?
« Reply #19 on: December 21, 2012, 10:27:30 am »
Good advice, lol.  I found out the hard way.   :-\

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Re: Late-game advice for a newb?
« Reply #20 on: December 21, 2012, 10:52:25 am »
Good advice, lol.  I found out the hard way.   :-\
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