Don't be haphazard with your researching. Scout your opponents. If they are playing offensively, head straight for multigun corvettes and control the resource areas. If your opponent is playing defensively, take the time to go for the bigger ships (but still control the resources). Don't research anything that you aren't likely to use - until there's nothing else left to research. Study the manual's technology tree and observe the shortest path to easy technologies. Assault frigates and multigun corvettes are only a few steps up the tech tree and will serve you well in early-game battles. Construct more than one research ship to study multiple technologies simultaneously. When Not to Stay Organized If you don't use formations and guarding, your fleets may devolve into horrific tangled messes - and sometimes, this is precisely what you want. If you outnumber the enemy, and can get away with letting your fleet make its own decisions, do so. Focus instead on sneaky salvage attacks on your enemy's capital ships. Salvaging is much more effective in huge messy battles than in highly organized ones. When you are attempting to distract an enemy, don't use formations (or order your units to be evasive). The less organized your attack, the harder it will be for your opponent to understand what he's up against, and the more likely it is that he will overcommit. Adjusting Style Against an Offensive or Defensive Opponent Scout your opponent early and take note of what his strategy is. Has he built a host of resource collectors? Build almost as many, but use the extra resource units to crank out some corvettes (especially multigun). Bring everything to where your opponent is collecting, and drive him away. Make him either switch to offense or circle around behind you in an attempt to harvest resources near your own mothership. Is your opponent gunning for offense at the expense of resource collection? Build more resource collectors than he does, and trust their toughness to get you through his first few attacks. Soon, your greater income will allow you to build an offense that will outnumber his. One-on-One vs. Free-for-All Gameplay Fighting against a single opponent makes for a much different game than fighting in a free-for-all environment. The most important objective in the one-on-one game is to collect resources faster and more efficiently than your opponent. Control the largest resource area on the map, and prevent your opponent from gathering additional resources. In a free-for-all game, especially with four or more opponents, the game becomes a battle against neighbors. You'll likely be extremely close to another player, and it's wise to mount an attack against him as soon as possible. If you do, and destroy him, you'll gain access to his unused resources early in the game. Furthermore, use probes to see where two players are fighting. Send your own ships into the fray and assist in a player's destruction, particularly if you're directly next to that opponent. Also, use probes to scout other players' resource units. Locate unprotected collectors and steal them with salvage corvettes. In a six-player free-for-all game, you can expect the map to be littered with resource units. |
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