What tactics do we prefer?

Ghost

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13 years ago

May 7, 2012, 12:15:33 PM

i do a mix of militaristic and economic with scientific. so i keep a presence in the galaxy along with economic strength and with the economic strength you can stay on top of militaristic and economic with science

Radon

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Radon

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13 years ago

May 7, 2012, 12:01:38 PM

Personally, I just get the base systems down, if I'm lucky and I'm in a small constellation, i'll try take the choke point. I pump out industry like there's no tomorrow, because i know at some point those friendly neighbourhood AI's will go on their period and start hating me for my systems passively expanding :/ So industry is key, then the small system which are far from the choke point tend to negate the amount of money being sucked out my empire. Then it's just lose a system or 2, and hopefully get enough research for the +2 Fleet, and military might. Protip, missiles seem to be bloody effective regardless. I had a dreadnought, battleship, and a cruiser, 4 times they were severely outnumbered in ships and firepower, they won all 4 and came out with only half HP.

Basically this AI needs fixing soon, it's annoying to strive for friendly alliances when you can't get them past neutral because of borders. You don't see us getting pissed if our allies system gains influence a tiny bit :/

Darkstone751

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Darkstone751

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13 years ago

May 7, 2012, 11:43:47 AM

Exploration, Economic and Defensive.

I enjoy running around scoping out new resources and anomalies, building a strong economic trade network and creating a huge defense fleet that I can use offensively to expand when needed.

VIPSharidann

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VIPSharidann

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13 years ago

May 7, 2012, 11:36:17 AM

My strategy really depends of what faction I am playing.

BlazerMortis

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BlazerMortis

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13 years ago

May 7, 2012, 11:35:20 AM

scientific military is the only way to play. haha. with some economy.

Gordon

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Gordon

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13 years ago

May 7, 2012, 11:34:36 AM

Scientific-Military is the new me. Currently, its the only thing that keeps the ai at bay

Sm31415

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Sm31415

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13 years ago

May 6, 2012, 7:37:58 PM

i tend to expand everything but military till someone gives me a reason otherwise

i was playing a game in which horatio decided to attack me despite my much greater empire size score cash reserves and production capability,

i then researched military tech and built a large quantity of ships i called "bamf"s

second biggest ship base, that overwhelmed him, and at no point did they sue for peace lol

Gordon

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Gordon

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13 years ago

May 5, 2012, 11:46:59 PM

Do you prefer the militaristic, scientific, economic or diplomatic way? Or perhaps a mix? My self, I prefer the economic way with a touch of diplomacy and military might. My goal for the first 50 turns is to have at-least 3 to 4 colonies that focus on dust production. Then, I go for any systems with resources that can add-up on my dust production. After that, I produce some fleets for protection. Also, trying as much as I can to be diplomatic with the AI, but it proves difficult.

slkslk

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slkslk

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13 years ago

May 6, 2012, 7:09:50 PM

Depends on AI. Economic/Science if it is a peaceful AI, diplomatic if it is a reasonable AI, military if the AI thinks it is Genghis Khan. Flexibility is the key!

Gordon

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Gordon

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13 years ago

May 6, 2012, 6:41:41 PM

lorelinad wrote:
Strong science is the key to military victory

This is so very true. The Military and science walk hand in hand.

halflotus

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halflotus

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13 years ago

May 6, 2012, 6:01:01 PM

I'm one of those jack-of-all, master of none players.

Few strategy games support that play style, but I'm whipping the AI in my current game.

xwing

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xwing

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13 years ago

May 6, 2012, 5:20:49 PM

At first I expand rapidly for natural chokepoints and then colonize&develop this hopefully huge area. I like to keep the technological edge and keep my population as happy and productive as possible. I use war&diplomacy usually only when I need something I cant acquire any other way, when I feel threatened and sometimes when I feel bored and have no new shiny things to build for my population, so I build shiny things for the enemy

Otherwise I just keep for myself and just trade with everyone willing to do so.

lorelinad

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lorelinad

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20 300g2g pts

13 years ago

May 6, 2012, 5:12:31 PM

Strong science is the key to military victory

WiZz

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WiZz

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8 100g2g pts

13 years ago

May 6, 2012, 4:53:22 PM

Kill'em all!!! Rushing if possible

amirfoox

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amirfoox

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23 200g2g pts

13 years ago

May 6, 2012, 4:50:57 PM

Staying small and peaceful is my favorite play style. Too bad this almost never works in 4X games, where the bigger and meaner guys get the cake. I'm fine with not winning that way, but I usually get mopped up quite a lot following that routine, Endless Space included.

As history and fables taught us (The Maginot Line, Thermopylae, The Iliad's Battle of Troy, etc.), a good defense is always a good offense.

Too bad I never seem to learn

Either that, or I'm just too lazy managing sprawling empires and constantly fending off attackers from every direction.

Only in Sins of a Solar Empire (and partly in Galciv 2) was I able to successfully pull this 'strategy' off, as the Ironclad/Stardock seem more inclined towards my defensive play style.

Ebrim

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Ebrim

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13 years ago

May 6, 2012, 4:36:57 PM

There is part of me that wants to do a cravers game where I brute force the whole thing, pack my ships with kinetics and swarm with overclocked weapons... In fact I think I might just do that...

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