@The+attican
you did very well in the beginning by "instantly" dropping lots of clans to the neighbouring Insectoid planet with a LDSF. That one move guaranteed you lots of money from the beginning. But you should not be careful to tax those natives. During the first 20 turns it's more important to get as much money as possible, not to worry about growth. So you can tax every turn as much as you can before amount of colonists prevents you from taxing more, to happiness 40 (about -10 / -5 happiness each turn). That excess money you can use to build ships and mines quickly.
I think you should have built at least 100 mines to the neighbouring planet P#162 with the MDSF ASAP, you would have gotten lots of tritanium by now. You need that for starbases, which you could build a few. Also - more mines everywhere! That's the goal when colonizing new planets, at least 50-100 mines first.
As the Privateer, you need a plethora of MCBRs with Transwarp engines. You need them so many, so you can flank your enemy, attack quickly and organize robbing wolf packs. So your aim should be to get at least two starbases that create Transwarp Meteors every turn. As soon as possible. That requires money, yes, but also minerals. Especially molybdenum. But also tritanium for starbases, duranium for Merlins etc... everyone needs some alchemy ships before ship limit, Merlins for minerals and fuel refineries for fuel. Also if you can't build Transwarp MCBRs quickly, then just build a few starbases to produce +2 priority points every turn so you can build some after the ship limit.
One trick for this is to build a "sandbox starbase" right next to your homeworld by bringing the needed minerals from homeworld. For example to P#303. There you can build some support ships - for example MDSF or LDSFs with poor engines! You could concentrate to build Transwarp MCBRs at your homeworld, and then use them to tow those LDSF to far away places - for example to planet clusters where planets are so close to each other that mark 5/6 engines are enough. This way Privateer is actually a "2x logistics speed race".
Building a starbase to P#360 was a smart move! Now you are closer to building lots of MCBRs every turn.
In the future in this game - you have a very important role, as I try to advance to those planets around John Galt star cluster. You can try to harass my freighters and rob my war ships, but be careful, I'm going to lay minefields with mark 8s soon. So you need some minesweeping power, heavy phasers.
For the other players, you could provide a taxi service to tow ships quickly to the front. And other players could provide some minesweeping / countermining help. |
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