08-26-2013, 03:04 PM
I'll tell you, this food-shortage thing has paralyzed my early turns. And the one star in range of my home system has an alien colony, so I will need to hit it with guns before butter.
My first priority is to populate that in-system hab-10 world. That will be the dress rehearsal for colonizations to come.
I am glad I split my first-turn research investments into FCT-4 / LAB-4 instead of FCT-5. I get to play with new Labs AND set up some big new production runs. I liked the idea of LAB-5 that the other player mentioned via email, but while he's presumably got a load of LAB-5s to set up that's double what I've got, he will be limited by FCT-1 tech for further turns (depending on when he started investing in them.) We'll see how it goes.
Finally, while I am glad I doubled my Consumer Good production (heading off THAT crisis), I am nervous about not having enough Structural Units to make big enough freighters. During the next 4 turns, while I fix my food shortage, I will be fleshing out the orbiter as large as possible, and set up some production runs for Farm-2, Life Support, and Space Drives. Sensors can wait -- my fleet is still grounded.
My first priority is to populate that in-system hab-10 world. That will be the dress rehearsal for colonizations to come.
I am glad I split my first-turn research investments into FCT-4 / LAB-4 instead of FCT-5. I get to play with new Labs AND set up some big new production runs. I liked the idea of LAB-5 that the other player mentioned via email, but while he's presumably got a load of LAB-5s to set up that's double what I've got, he will be limited by FCT-1 tech for further turns (depending on when he started investing in them.) We'll see how it goes.
Finally, while I am glad I doubled my Consumer Good production (heading off THAT crisis), I am nervous about not having enough Structural Units to make big enough freighters. During the next 4 turns, while I fix my food shortage, I will be fleshing out the orbiter as large as possible, and set up some production runs for Farm-2, Life Support, and Space Drives. Sensors can wait -- my fleet is still grounded.