i was justing trying to play a game on easy and the 3 ai i where veresing, where all ahead of me in tech and ships and numbers, and they would only attack me, but when i looked on the diplomacy screen it said that they where all at war with each other as well (this has happened about 3-4 times now where all ai decided to attack me and me only) whats some key tech i should aim to get off the bat and is there any way to make ur go research faster? as building the colider things dont seem to speed it up that much

A few techs on the right tech tree will help your research speed. You want Public-Private Partnerships to build in bigger systems, and the improvement that gives +40 Science in exchange for -3 Dust.



Even more important than that, though, is simply having a big empire. You need to grow quickly; more people means more science. How many systems do you control right now?

I highly recommend you try the 30-turn challenge:



/#/endless-space/forum/27-general/thread/8097-30-turn-challenge-help-me-learn



Usually when you *see* that you are behind in research it is *because* you are behind in population. The 30-turn challenge lets you measure your early game strategy against other players.

Always expand and populate first. Get yourself in a position where you can colonize most planets, then focus on other research. The more people and planets you have the harder it is to stop you ower:

If you make concentric circles (tiers?) out from the centre of the research tree, always research early and not later.

What I find to work is this sequence: food, industry, sci for each tier of system improvements. You can put food behind sci if the system has super-uber food generation from anomalies.



NOTE: I still have not tried the 30-turn challenge yet.

Kingherod wrote:
Always expand and populate first. Get yourself in a position where you can colonize most planets, then focus on other research. The more people and planets you have the harder it is to stop you ower:

Expand, choke, and fill: get out to planets that have strat-res or gets you better defense posture, then back fill quickly towards your core. Beware of pirates! Backfill quickly or build several fleets.



Like Davea said, do the 30-turn challenge. Or, just do several starts. After the first 2 or 3 games, I can now play at serious difficulty and be 1st in sci for Sophon, Craver, and Hissho. You just need to find your optimal for each race.

the ai has absurdly quick science and imo the devs really have to turn it down, i mean by turn 3 the sophon ai had already mastered the casmir effect and used a wormhole to invade my system

eltro102 wrote:
the ai has absurdly quick science and imo the devs really have to turn it down, i mean by turn 3 the sophon ai had already mastered the casmir effect and used a wormhole to invade my system

Sophons do have a +40% science racial modifier, so they aren't really a good indication.

There's no way they should be able to research Casmir Effect that quickly. Their initial techs start at four turns to research, for one...