I always tend to play Psilons too, and the trick is either luck or diplomacy in early games. If you can manage to "persuade" the other factions around you to leave you alone until mid-game where you can start to produce over overpowered ships VS those your opponents can do, then you already won the game.

Naaah, guess I'm just the first to read it after playing




My biggest problems are still in the early game. I like Psilons best, which are weak in early game, plus I always seem to start off slower than the others. I'll try doing it your way.

[fixed quotes -Mr Creosote]

Edited by Mr Creosote at 21:15 on September, 07th 2005

That's right. Corrected. The review has been online since April 2000, and you're the first one to notice (the first one who has read it?) by the way

Umm.... immediately? After about five rounds, I start distributing the production amongst industry (still the main chunk, of course), science and a tiny little bit for building colony ships. Even if the prediction is at several hundred years to finish building it then, at least the production is already started, and then I gradually increase production. There isn't much of another choice on the first planet, because if everything goes into industry for a long time, absolutely no technological advances will happen, leaving you behind badly on higher difficulty levels. Also, expansion is probably the most important thing at the beginning of the game...

In the MOO review, it says that you can have a max of four AI opponents. However, it's five.

Speaking of MOO, any good starting strategies? when should I stop investing everything in industry and move on to colonising planets?