omg this game is hard.. help please
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first of all id like to say ive read as much as i can on this forum and on the guides on this page, but most of the stuff just concerns either warfare or experienced players...
im a n00b who wants to play the game STRICTLY by using diplomacy and trade... well the problem is that neither what i do, if i go trade or warfare i always loose, even on cakewalk difficulty with everyone including me as good aligned i cant win...
if i go warfare i get sucky economy and people hate me, and my research is seriously sub-par, in fact no matter what i try i always lie behind in economy and research, the highest i have ever been in economy was something like 44, and each time i get a uptodate message of my empire it warns me that im seriously behind in research...
if i go diplomacy and trade, someone always comes and screwes this up... i played a game yesterday with cakewalk difficulty and all races including me good (so they cant hate me because i would have a different alignment than them)... it was progressing fairly well, i got up my two first freighters and send them to those E.T looking guys, a couple of turns later the wars start ploppin in with the messages of the likes "your army is sucky now you die, grr, me strong, you not muahahah" (not an exact quote LOL )
help me please, i really suck at this, im always last on technology, military and economy, i always have the least influence and in the end, even though i have all kinds of moraleboosting stuff my planets start leaving because of my sucky cultural influence...
oh and one more question, how do i colonise several planets in one solar system? i only seem to be able to colonise one planet per system...
im sorry if this became a long post, and i hope someone can help me...
im a n00b who wants to play the game STRICTLY by using diplomacy and trade... well the problem is that neither what i do, if i go trade or warfare i always loose, even on cakewalk difficulty with everyone including me as good aligned i cant win...
if i go warfare i get sucky economy and people hate me, and my research is seriously sub-par, in fact no matter what i try i always lie behind in economy and research, the highest i have ever been in economy was something like 44, and each time i get a uptodate message of my empire it warns me that im seriously behind in research...
if i go diplomacy and trade, someone always comes and screwes this up... i played a game yesterday with cakewalk difficulty and all races including me good (so they cant hate me because i would have a different alignment than them)... it was progressing fairly well, i got up my two first freighters and send them to those E.T looking guys, a couple of turns later the wars start ploppin in with the messages of the likes "your army is sucky now you die, grr, me strong, you not muahahah" (not an exact quote LOL )
help me please, i really suck at this, im always last on technology, military and economy, i always have the least influence and in the end, even though i have all kinds of moraleboosting stuff my planets start leaving because of my sucky cultural influence...
oh and one more question, how do i colonise several planets in one solar system? i only seem to be able to colonise one planet per system...
im sorry if this became a long post, and i hope someone can help me...
