GreenGoo wrote: ↑Fri Jun 16, 2023 10:04 am
Kraken wrote: ↑Thu Jun 15, 2023 9:57 pm
I need to play faster. Still being in learning mode, I pause after almost every event popup and spend at least a few minutes micromanaging some aspect. Unpause for 30 or 60 seconds, then pause and micromanage, etc. If I'm at war, it goes even slower. In a typical 2-3 hour session I don't advance much more than 5 game years.
I need to let more of the event tiles slide and spent less time tweaking when I do pause.
This is exactly how I play. I get annoyed that the game doesn't auto-pause for research successes. And I get (very minor) anxiety when I haven't paused in a long time because I think I'm missing doing something.
There are so many systems in this game that I haven't a clue about half of them. I just assume everything that isn't telling me it's broken is working fine.
Somehow, somewhere, I acquired a Relic. Probably from an archeological dig. Periodically, I get to activate my Relic, which gives me more cash than I can handle and bestows a promotion on a leader. That's just one example of a "huh, whaddaya know about that" game element. I finally learned to spend all of my money before activating it.
My most recent war went well, then poorly. I'm at 100% weariness but haven't been forced to peace yet. It looks like I'll end up winning one insignificant system and losing one significant one. This war took me two playing sessions, during which the game advanced all of about three years.
I've also played enough combat now to suspect that it's all about Stacks of Doom. There's probably a rock-paper-scissors aspect going on under the hood but I use default ship designs so that's opaque to me. The fleet with the larger combat value almost invariably wins. I try to max out my fleet sizes and keep them constantly upgraded, and it seems that the AI is doing the same thing. When they group 2-3 big fleets together on the same tile, it's going to steamroll.
Anyway, despite the disappointing war I'm going to keep on keeping on. I'm 155 years in now, which is (I think) halfway through.