Re: help me « Reply #1 on: January 22, 2006, 06:33:49 pm »
Mine everything in the Sol system (where you start). Especially, buy thrusters so you move quickly... if you have enough speed, you don't need guns (and scrapping the guns can buy you a lot of speed!). Also buy several cargo bays so you can carry a lot of minerals.
Ask Hayes about the old Alliance races, and talk to each of them and bring them back into the alliance (the Chenjesu lived in Procyon, Shofixti in Delta Gorno, Yehat in the Serpentis and Scuti constellations; the other three had no fixed home). If you feel you can escape from or fight your way out of a rough situation, also try enlisting the alliance's old enemies.
Listen to Hayes' advice on mining too. It's generally good.
Re: help me « Reply #3 on: January 23, 2006, 12:36:24 pm »
also you might want to enquip guns in the back of your vassel as a beginning stratagy, so that you'll be able to chicken-fight nasty probes and other threats.
systematically go through star systems and drain stars from resources, skip some only if weather/bios are really dengerous. cause' afterwards revisiting skipped stars and systems waste time, fuel and give ya a serious headache.
Re: help me « Reply #4 on: January 24, 2006, 03:24:11 am »
Call me crazy, but I think he's trying to say that he got exterminated by the Kohr-Ah after they started their death-march across the quadrant.
If that's the case... Well, just try to move faster, I guess. You should know where a lot of points of interest are from your first playthrough, so you can get to them much faster, without having to wander about trying to find that one particular star system that has that one particular planet with that one particular artifact... Syreen vault, I'm looking at you right now.