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Bingeling -> RE: Entry-level, beginner tutorial game walkthrough (5/26/2016 10:12:11 AM)
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I played this game for a long time without bothering with manual construction ships. This also includes not paying too much attention to resources, as the AI actually does a decent job as long as it has some construction ships and available resource spots. I would usually not run them manual even today, though, unless the AI starts annoying me to insisting to go the a pirate/silvermist infested hole at the other side of the galaxy to get some resource we already got 3 sources of.
I think that one key difference though, is that I did this in the vanilla game and return of the shakturi expansion. There was less stuff going on, and thus easier to see what actually went on. None of those had pre-warp, characters, wonders, zones of influence. Vanilla did even have automatic (only) research and no research module as far as I remember. I also find ship design a chore, and have never spent too much focus in that area.
The key in the above is that automation is quite wonderful, but you ought to understand what is being automated.
As for forum advice, there is also the little factor that there are many ways to play this game. When it comes to construction ships, I see advices of "you need lots of them", but if I actually play with them on manual, I would most likely have 3 or 4 that spend most of their time being idle. Which tells me that my games does not look anything like their games, or they have no clue at all ;-)
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