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Early game problems (mainly military)

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Tolc:
So far I haven't seen that much of this game, because I always run into problems of the military sort. In my first game I made it to turn 100 before the Krolin decided to subjugate me with 11 saucers (they probably meant eradicate, 'cause that's what they did...) and I didn't have a stable enough economy to pay the in my opinion quite high costs for military buildings (had 1 or 2), so I gave up on that game. Next game was better, but not by much.

In my current game I have another (similar) problem: Started the game of by focusing on crown production this time in order to jumpstart the economy and build more barracks/guard posts. Turns out that I had two Thoraxian nests next to my starting location (ca. 2 territories away) that started bombarding me before I even hit turn 30(!). Due to their attack power of 512 and my one guardpost that I managed to build only having an AP of 77, I lost building after building, after building...

So my question to the shirts of various non-black colours: What am I doing wrong? How do you manage the early game? Does that happen to you as well? Am I just stupid/unlucky/a filthy Zenith?

Shrugging Khan:
Nah. Just take a beating and wait for them to head off. Sure, you're basically back to where you started out from...but it's not like the game ever gets harder. Just keep trying.

Zebeast46:
Generally I get attacked at turn 70 or so, my way to deal with the attacks is to save up a BUNCH of money (something like 300k) and then when you see the saucers about to warp in place your building accordingly. This strategy even works with the Peltians.

Edit: Well, I just realized that I play all my games on easy so this might not work on harder difficulties.

Tolc:

--- Quote from: Shrugging Khan on June 20, 2015, 11:45:58 am ---Nah. Just take a beating and wait for them to head off. Sure, you're basically back to where you started out from...but it's not like the game ever gets harder. Just keep trying.
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They leave on their own after a while? Ok, but still: I think it's a bit discouraging if you're new to the game...


--- Quote from: Zebeast46 on June 20, 2015, 12:36:57 pm ---Generally I get attacked at turn 70 or so, my way to deal with the attacks is to save up a BUNCH of money (something like 300k) and then when you see the saucers about to warp in place your building accordingly. This strategy even works with the Peltians.

Edit: Well, I just realized that I play all my games on easy so this might not work on harder difficulties.

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I play on Normal so there might be differences. But aren't you just doing nothing for 50+ turns then in order to get that amount of crowns? That sounds rather boring to me...

In other news: I started yet another game and it seems like I got a bit lucky with my start this time (no incident involving me and two throraxian nests that I had the means to remove so far...*knocks on wood*).

kasnavada:
Saucers "holo" time is reduced when at higher difficulty.

About Peltians, once you've unlocked the "crop = money" social advance, you've won the game more or less.

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