Posted by: ZimRathbone
« on: May 30, 2010, 06:13:45 AM »Quote from: "Judicator"
Thanks for the help guys. I'm starting over, due to my mistake. But yet again progress seems to be at a crawl, slow as ever. I'm trying a 'real' game where I don't alter anything at all whatsoever except the initial starting minerals so I can have some more 'leeway' to get miner fleets and explorers set up. I have yet to begin dabbling in military other than the fact that holy cow there is alot to research to get even the basics started.
Whats your initial population size? I find that 1 billion (american ie 1000 million) is about the least thats viable for a player race, although yes that will tend to have you running out of homeworld minerals in 5-10 years - have to move fast with those colony ships. This presupposes a TN start - I rarely use conventional starts.