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1822 days, 12 hours, 28 minutes ago

tickles

The best part of Failure is the knowledge it brings to not...

The best part of Failure is the knowledge it brings to not repeat the same mistake!

1822 days, 12 hours, 8 minutes ago

tickles

RE: The best part of Failure is the knowledge it brings to not...

I wish I could get into the forum and not just the Live feed:(

1822 days, 10 hours, 21 minutes ago

RE: The best part of Failure is the knowledge it brings to not...

I'll make it my personal mission that you utterly fail in the Garfield Sector so I don't have to worry about you joining my Sectors again.

I was quite content ignoring that stack of T-Rex's outside my Homeworld.

1822 days, 7 hours, 1 minutes ago

RE: The best part of Failure is the knowledge it brings to not...

My experience is different. Once a year I load all my clans at a star base (probably instead of supplies) and next turn, poof! - no more star base. I have been here 3 years and done it 3 times. And, no matter how many times I bang my head against the wall, the very next year . . .

1822 days, 5 hours, 50 minutes ago

lok tar

RE: The best part of Failure is the knowledge it brings to not...

Next time your feeling this urge would you join a new game with me?

actually, I totally get it, not to long ago I messed up my build orders. followed by screwing up several hyperjumps.

1822 days, 4 hours, 18 minutes ago

RE: The best part of Failure is the knowledge it brings to not...

The BEST part of failure is getting to learn from someone else's.

Unfortunately, it seems most of the time I have to learn from my own. :o\

1822 days, 3 hours, 19 minutes ago

RE: The best part of Failure is the knowledge it brings to not...

...and the worst part is
not AGAIN. Will I ever learn...:)

1822 days, 1 hours, 48 minutes ago

RE: The best part of Failure is the knowledge it brings to not...

“Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.” ― Otto von Bismarck

1821 days, 8 hours, 7 minutes ago

RE: The best part of Failure is the knowledge it brings to not...

Actually, one of the areas a good player has to become strong in is making mistakes. Each turn, there are a dozen or two possible orders or non-orders for each planet, star base, and ship. One has to learn to just forget a mistake and move on or one's play will degrade. It is one of the intangible abilities of the game.

"He who has not made many mistakes in war has not made war for very long."

-Napoleon

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Another intangible talent deals with luck. There is a whole lot of luck in this game and that is good. It all evens out each game.

1. Not getting depressingly careless after bad luck.
2. Adapting your play after bad luck encountered.
3. Not getting giddyingly careless after good luck.
4. Adapting your play to take advantage of good luck.

No single instance of luck will make or break a game and they tend to even out over the course of a game. The one exception may be droppers. A dropper in the 1st 20 turns or a big empire dropper later in the game can completely change the game and overwhelm good or bad play.

1821 days, 7 hours, 42 minutes ago

commander koski

RE: The best part of Failure is the knowledge it brings to not...

Ah, Mjs68508 ventures into one of my favorite subjects: luck.

"Audentes fortuna iuvat" or "Fortune favours the bold."
- old Latin proverb

Play aggressively, attack, and fortune favors you. This is exactly for the reason Mjs described here: every turn you have a lot of options to choose from. But when you attack, many of those options deal with advancing, gaining and winning something! So when you advance, there is more options to gain something, than when you defend and sit still.

And as Mjs says, it's one of the easiest things to get drunk with the excitement some lucky triumphs will give you. Becoming "giddyingly careless".

But: if you mess your attack, you still have a chance to defend. But if you mess your defence, you don't get a chance to attack. So, I think building a huge defence first in order to attack later is usually more risky than early attack! (Of course this depends a lot on the situation and game mechanics. And your overall point of view: an admiral may risk a ship, a midshipman on that ship may not.)

Attacking is also growing, and growing means more options. More options means more chances to learn. So, when you attack, you learn more! Or at least, you'll learn your lesson quicker... :D

1821 days, 6 hours, 57 minutes ago

ville kauppinen

RE: The best part of Failure is the knowledge it brings to not...

The minute you stop expanding you are losing.

1821 days, 6 hours, 29 minutes ago

RE: The best part of Failure is the knowledge it brings to not...

Nah VilleK., I purposefully retreat all the time so my enemies fleets chew thru their fuel, arrive at planets I stripped fuel off of... while I circled around surrounding them.

Crystals... we prefer you bring "our" ships to us.

1821 days, 6 hours, 26 minutes ago

ville kauppinen

RE: The best part of Failure is the knowledge it brings to not...

In my opinion even crystals work better on offensive. Of course you need to bring more resources rather than sitting but being offensive webbers limites your opponents options and room to maneuver even more.

1821 days, 1 hours, 2 minutes ago

RE: The best part of Failure is the knowledge it brings to not...

"The minute you stop expanding you are losing."

One caveat: In VGA planets there are 2 ways to expand, number of planets and number of ship slots. If you stay at 50 planets for 30 turns, but expand from 60 to 90 ships (after the ship limit), you have expanded.

1821 days, 0 hours, 22 minutes ago

ville kauppinen

RE: The best part of Failure is the knowledge it brings to not...

Yes, usually they go hand in hand.
Not always, but usually.