Overview
I have many tricks for winning the game.
beginning(any affinity, any faction)
Start by researching techs like teraforming/ecology/computing. start building a colonist unit early. I reccomend building industrial develpoment. After that buy military units. It’s never a mad idea to now research robotics( especially if you are harmony or puriny). If you are suprenancy, research artificial intellegence. Now do your first affinity tech.
mid-game for harmony
Do same as you would for puriny but after researching nanotechnology, research nanorobotics not orbital networks and chemistry. then research 2 easy techs, trasnsginetics and swarm robotics. Now go for the mind flower and defend it with melee units.
mid-game for puriny
go for nanotechnology for the exodus gate. Research development until you know about nanotechnology. build research centers. I like to have at least 2 workers at all times. harvest strategic resources to trade for science per turn. NOTE that you or your ally has to launch a lasercom airplane first.
mid-game for suprenancy
hypercomputing is now what you have to research. go for lvl13 suprenancy and build lots of hard combat units so when you can build the enancipation gate, you can just send all your military units intintaniously. This way, once you got the enancipation gate up, you will not have to build anything else.
victory
domination victory
destroy or capture all capital cities
reccomended to build industrial development in all your cities. This way, buy military units and just force everyone to give up their capital cities.
time
have the highest score when time runs out
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contact victory
build sattelites to discover hidden code.
reccomended to build research development in all your cities until you have the required tech.
harmony victory
like I said above, do the consiousness contact then the consiousness merge using the mind flower.
reccomended to research alien ethics then get the mind stem.
puriny victory
settle a number of units with no combat abilities
reccomended to build the exodus gate in one city then industrial development in the others to buy earthling settlements. wait and do it. done.Like I said before, you or your ally must launch a lasercom airplane.
suprenancy victory
send military units through the enancipation gate, back to earth.
reccomended to do the enancipation gate in one city then industrial development in the other ones so you can buy military units then send them back to earth. this way, you will complete the victory in less than 10 turns once you get the enancipation gate up and running. NOTE that you or your ally must launch a lasercom airplane first.