Raap -> RE: ** SPOILERS ** EXTREME Game of the Month 1 (6/4/2014 11:31:27 PM)
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The silvermist trick at the start was very neat; the main colony/system was effectively lost from the get go. I had to restart a couple of times due to no helium on the minor colony and questionable civilian ship behavior leaving me without resources to build new ships. Ended up building a space port with no shields and generators(those require lots of helium) on the minor planet, which let me save enough helium to produce new civilian sector ships. Low population isn't ideal in the start, but I got lucky(?) by finding a Zenox colony fairly soon with a large population of them and some, quite frankly, ridiculous bonuses once I colonized them. Think they gave me like -40% ship maintenance, huge research bonus, +50% colony income, etc. They also had a ridiculous population growth of 30-40%, which had me regain the lost homeworld population in no time. No idea what happened there. Editor stuff? Anyway, after that it became a cakewalk. The Sol Dominion managed to keep up for a while, but when I quit after 4-5 hours we were at war and I was at 1.3 million firepower and they had fallen down to ~300k. No one else were higher than 100k, so I'm fairly certain I could have taken on the entire universe at that point. But yeah, cool game. Kinda ruined by integrating those Zenox types though. Not sure if that was intended? Oh, game was played with the new patch if that makes any difference.
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