Re: Newbie guide for this game?
First off:
Welcome DarkStar
to the SEIV universe
This is for an oxg/rock race:
First build 2-3 colonization ships. Colonize
a couple of planets in your system. Pick the ones that have a green star first. On planets that have 6 or more fac spots, build in this order, Space yard, resuppy depot, mineral, research, then either organic and/or rad. then a mineral depot, then fill the rest with
reaserch/mineral (swap back and forth until full)
On anything below 6, you have to build witch ever resource has the highest persent rate. (i.e moons)
Build an escort and send it to the next system. (I would only look at one new system at a time until I have a couple of the planets done. Don't over expand early in the game.) Build some defenses, either on your planets or some ships. I prefer ships myself. With a few sat's on my WP's.
Remember in every system, you must have a space port to gain from that system. Don't worry about remote mining unless you just have a large number of fields around you.
Since you are only using the demo, You won't get to use a lot of the items with my method.
I am sure others have ways that they will post. Just pick diffent ones and try different ways of playing. (my first few rounds, I ran out of resources and could not maintain a fleet. I quickly learned that my race used alot of minerals early in the game and did not use any organics or rads until later.)
There is a guide that was put together by one of the players, It is posted the the mod section of the site. It has a number of ideas from a number of players on starting a game. It is call strat guide.
You may want to down load it and check it out.
See this post: Strategy Guide in the Archive
P.s
My suggestion is to buy the game, it is great and you can use all the custom stuff we came up with also plus most everyone on this site will glading 'attempt' to answer all your questions.
[This message has been edited by Dracus (edited 12 April 2001).]
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