a Little bit of Background info.
Being a vivid 4X Player, i in particulary enjoyed the more "hardcore" games of the genre. For example, unlike most People, i really enjoyed Master of Orion 3 and Manual, empire-wide DEA managment.
Or Space Empires 4, being clumsy, but having great deapth and micro managment.
I recently discovered Aurora and spend a considerable amount of time to get to know it and stuff.
After running a free games to get the General early game going, i think im now at the Point where i can start a real game.
This thread is to confirm my impressions and what to do.
This is basicly TN start with 20 to 25k preassigned Research, 8 labs and roughly 200m Pop with a 2 slipway naval Yard.
100 Systems, 60 % NPR Chance and 2 fixed NPRs.
in Addition, its custom race/system, not boring SOL start. Usually pick a System with one world with col-cost 2 and one more in-System with cost < 8.
- begin construction of mines and factories at 45/45 to increase production and mining. Might need a tad more weighting towards mines to not get stuck.
- begin construction of Commercial Yard at 10 % or what.
- Research engines and higher effiency mining and/or better cargo handling and stuff.
- design cheap geo-survs for in-System. Need mil-engines due to the lack of a Commercial Yard.
- Survey planets, drop of surv Teams using surv ships that are flying around anyway.
- accelerate comm-Yard production
- build a bunch of infrastructure.
- build Commercial cargo haulers once possible (i am at 50k cargo and a load of cargo handling).
- begin to haul infrastructure, construction and mines to the nearest colcost 2 world w/ decent ressources.
- build colony ship (if possible design it in a way that comm Yard does not Need retasking from cargo hauler, though i was unable to do that using my 70k tons haulers, might only work with 25k hulls).
- set a Loop for cargo haulers and colony ship to populate the colcost 2 world.
Once that is done, i build 2 grav-survey ships and Scout my imminent jumpholes.
Now, this is basicly were all my current games did stop until i managed to get this process going as smoothly as possible.
So, where do i go from here ? Colonize imminent Systems, or build better Explorer to find out where any NPRs are (remember, 100 Systems only).
thank you for suggestions !