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Marclg024
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No matter how hard I try, I never seem to be able to win the game, in stead the kohr-ah just exterminate everyone, does anyone have any tips?
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Muchoman798
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THIS WILL HAVE SPOILERS!!!
I'll try to leave out a lot of plot spoilers, and be general, but warning nonetheless.
I just started playing too, and have found some really useful stuff. Before you keep reading, make sure that you have finished one game, whether you lost or not. Once you finish your first game, the rest become much easier since you find more and more secrets near the end when the Kohr Ah kill everything. If you are loading a game like six months before the genocide and trying to finish it, that'll be insanely hard.
Now, if you have finished a full game, read on.
One of the very first things you need to do, as in by August of 2155, is get the Quasi-Space drive. This is one of the most important devices in the game, since it will allow you to do everything you had done before two years early (there will be so little time spent in Hyper-Space transit.) If you don't know how to get the drive, you should go talk to the Spathi at their home world (Epsilon Gruis I.) I won't tell you anything else about what happens, since the game guides you to the drive from there.
Have you done that before and still had issues? Read on.
To win the game, you need to stop the Ur Quan, Kzer Za and Kohr Ah. You do this by blowing up what made the Mmrnhrrm and Chenjusu lose in the first war, but what was that? I won't tell you, since you need to go find those two races. You also need to find another race to accomplish this that you may not have found before, especially if you didn't have the Quasi-Space drive. To find the Mmrnhrrm, Chenjusu, and the other race I mentioned, talk to Commander Hayes about alien races and explore all of the chat options. He will guide you to a specific star and a specific star cluster that have these races.
Another tip to find the last two races that are required to win (you don't need to find them all) is to explore all of the various "Weak Points" in Quasi-Space. That means go to all of the things that look like stars and say "UNKNOWN" when you hover over them. This will help you meet everybody.
I hope this was able to help without spoiling the plot.
Here is some non-spoiler advice: there are two types of star ships which are by far plain superior to anything else you will get. One can easily destroy a Dreadnought or a Marauder and the other can destroy every other type of ship. They are the Eluder and the Terminator. I won't tell you which races give them, but they are the MOST powerful ships in the game by far, in my opinion (I haven't used the Avatar yet.)
A final piece of advice: Buy all of the technology that the Melnorme sell. Your flagship will get so insanely powerful that you'll laugh at a Kohr Ah ship. Seriously.
I hope I didn't spoil anything, but gave helpful advice.
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Marclg024
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You didn't spoil anything, don't worry. Your advice is very helpfull although I don't think the eluder is that helpful since it's primary weapon is weak and it's special weapon has limited range and doesn't track al that nicely. But the terminator is a really good one. In my first game I largely handled the fights with my flagship, is that a good idea or is using smaller ships more efficiently? Anyway thanks for the advice!
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Death 999
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We did. You did. Yes we can. No.
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The eluder is not great for many things, but it IS great against AI-controlled Ur-quan and Kohr-Ah.
There are other great ships - getting the Terminator is at the end of a long chain of quests. There are other better options for specific things.
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Marclg024
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But don't the B.U.T.TS have a shorter range than the marauders sawblades?
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Foxbat1701
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In the beginning make sure you make friends with the Pkunk. Keep at least 3 of the ships they give you, they're worth it in the end.
Also, wait until the last minute to send the Illrath to kill the Thrads, first get at least 5 or 6 Thrad ships. They kill Green UrQuan easily and are not too bad taking out Kor Ah either.
As for Avatar ships, they're crap. The Broodhome and old X form fighters had 2 of the 3 Alliance long range weapons. Now its not much better than a Vux. Yeah, it'll go toe-to=toe with a KorAh or UrQuan, but only one. Its not better than a Broodhome and the x-form ship that was fast and fired the 2 long range homing missiles was my favorite Star Control ship, I could kill anything with that one.
If you've learned all the tasks you must accomplish to get to the end game, then you just need to figure out how to do them all faster.
Hint: don't be "too successful" in fighting the 6 guard ships (3 UrQuan and 3 KorAh) around the Sa-Matra. Make sure you have at least 5 or 6 empty spots when you get past that last KorAh ship, even if that means letting them kill the outrider ships you fight with.
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