| Re: Is there a good Stars! tutoral out there? |
Fri, 08 August 2003 01:57   |
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Basically there's a few things you need to keep in mind when micromanaging.
1. Keep your breeder worlds at 33% capacity. That's 360,000 for obrm non-joat, 400,000 for obrm joat. Keep enough cargo space in orbit to absorb the new population each year. Do not let them go beyond this limit, even for a little bit. Once you run out of places to put your people, and have nowhere to invade, fill your homeworld up to the brim and hold the rest at 50% capacity.
2. Bring minerals when you colonise! You'll need, say, 20% of your initial exports to be germanium and 80% people. If you're factoryless, just bring enough mins for a space dock or whatever.
2a. If you see that one of your worlds has low concentrations of a mineral, send it a bunch of that mineral so you can actually build things there. This is a more common problem than you'd think.
3. Set up your default build queue as:
...Factories up to 1020
...Mines up to 1020
...Max Terra up to 1020
...Defenses up to 100
Add other crap in as necessary.
3a. keep your research at 0% except in dire emergencies. You get more tech in the long run by building factories first and researching later.
4. Keep files from each game in a separate directory. Make a .txt file in Notepad to keep track of information like enemy race designs, homeworlds, any diplomatic agreements, etc.
Make plans several years in advance and write them down.
Beyond these basics, the main issue is discipline. Don't get lazy. Don't get involved in too many games to keep track of. It's better to play one or two games and do well than to play ten and get exterminated in all of them. 
[Updated on: Fri, 08 August 2003 02:08] Report message to a moderator
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