Weapon has their own advantage and disadvantage. Or if you can build one, a dyson sphere can produce over 1000 energy per months, enough to cover your expenses and focus the entire planetary infrastructure for miningĦ.

In any case, you can sustain your economy alone with power plants during late game, build many power plants and use trader enclave to trade it with minerals for cash boost since energy is dirt cheap at this point. Late game, energy becomes less critical, since you will mostly spend your time building fleet, where minerals is at must. If you want to really confine them, just close your border, they won't have any free movement to expand their borderĥ. This will severely limit their movement so you can expand more. If possible, RUSH immediately to capture nearby star systems around it's border, colonize and/or build outpost to confine them inside your territory/edge of galaxy. If you have your first contact, the alien's territory will be revealed. Sometimes colonizing a poor planet is viable if it allows you to get a strategic advantage in positionĤ. This will increase the space you can use to build mining camp and power plants, bolstering your economy. Take the planet with as many times and resource nodes if possible.

Let them be the one who did it for us, this gives you more time to expandģ. If there's a new alien contact and prompt to research it's language, don't bother. Expand your border by placing outpost and colonizing planetĢ. If you've researched automatic exploration, it becomes even easier. Use your science ship to go to other star systems to get strategic view of the entire galaxy. Well I take megastructure-based ascension path, but for general strategy for newbie:ġ. My empire is fungus materialist, focusing in economic warfare, an the ascension path that I take. Well, I won the game by colonization victory, Aka colonize as many planets as possible.

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