A few questions.

[RaranTroff]

1. Is it better to start off with a capital ship that can colonize right away or one of the other ones?

2. I maxed out a planet and can't build any more civilian research stations. Are Trade stations really that important that I sac military research for it?

3. Is it advised to mine every rock I come across?

4. Oribital gun platforms. Do I need one for each jump vector into my home planet?

I love the combat as its cool to send my fleet out and watch them blow other ships to hell and back. Its the logistics I am having problems with.

Thanks in advance.

[Ryatboss]

1. Generally yes
2. Yes, they make a strong economy possible. No money, no ships.
3. Yes
4. Nope

[RaranTroff]

So I have to build trade platforms. I guess that means no guns to defend the planet as I need 2 of them and 2 mil platforms just to get the decent research. Guess I will try the scenario again.

[RaranTroff]

Got economic stuff down. I had a power house economy but the cheating ♥♥♥ AI sends not 1 but 2 fleets after one of my planets. I have just the one fleet, it gets destroyed and the game is basically over as I can't defend what I have left. Maxed out industry, was working on building up my mil research platforms and that happend. Whatever I guess I need to play a bigger map or something.

I even had like 3 maxed out planets and was working on number 5. What a waste of time that was.

Gause platforms don't stand a chance against bomber spam.....this game is not fun. Not fun in the least.

[Ryatboss]

It takes some time to learn yes. Recommend a lower AI. Sounds like you went Unfair AI. Remember to expand quickly and find a good choke point. Put up a starbase then max out economy. 3 planets is an extremely slow start.

[RaranTroff]

It takes some time to learn yes. Recommend a lower AI. Sounds like you went Unfair AI. Remember to expand quickly and find a good choke point. Put up a starbase then max out economy. 3 planets is an extremely slow start.

Did that and it was on easy I will never be good enough at this game to play on hard let alone unfair. I don't even want to know what unfair is like.

Is the small 1v1 map just a bad map to start on? A huge map with only 1 ai would be heaven, but I can't figure out how to turn off the other AI. I guess I could make them all on my team but that doesn't sound like any fun.

[Whippersnapper]

Just keep clicking on the very left buttons in the game setup screen to knock out the AIs so you can 1v1 on a large map.

I agree with what Ryat said, this game has a learning curve, especially Rebellion because it contains large amounts of content. There was much less to learn about in the original Sins game ("Vanilla"). It is a lot of fun if you enjoy strategy games, especially if you ever get to the point where you can play online multiplayer team games such as 5-on-5 without any AI.