Little help for a total newbie to 4x space games.
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First my experience: About 3 hours with MOO3, but I really hated the lack of feedback on why other races do things, so someone suggested picking up GalCiv.
So, it seems Im back in the same boat as when I started trying to play Moo3. I just dont know what exactly it is Im supposed to be doing at the beginning of the game. I often feel that Im just aimlessly pushing a ship or two around the screen.
So far, I've sent out the scout (I think it's the scout, it finds anomolies and space junk) out into the star field and point it to every little anomaly I come across, and every piece of spacejunk I see, but after a while I dont know what I've done but it goes on some sort of cruise control and just starts wandering and finding things itself. So this scout has found me a couple other ships, but when I click on them and tell them to move, I get a dialog telling me that they are too far out of range and that I should return them to my sector (or a similar message), but I have no idea how to get them to go back to my sector.
Then onto the colony ship. Generally I just send them to the closest system (usually another yellow planet looking object on the screen) and colonize one of the planets. But which one should I colonize, does it even matter? Should I be sending this colony ship far away to colonize or colonize real close to where it starts?
So as you can see Im a total newb to space 4x games, and the pdf manual is not really helping me all that much (though i tried to read it from the screen and I really dont retain much info when reading from the screen), so Im printing it out, but in the first 20 pages so far printed, it's not doing a whole lot to tell me early game of what Im supposed to be doing.
Are there any sites, pages etc that give good starting play information for a total newbie.
Thanks,
LakeSide
So, it seems Im back in the same boat as when I started trying to play Moo3. I just dont know what exactly it is Im supposed to be doing at the beginning of the game. I often feel that Im just aimlessly pushing a ship or two around the screen.
So far, I've sent out the scout (I think it's the scout, it finds anomolies and space junk) out into the star field and point it to every little anomaly I come across, and every piece of spacejunk I see, but after a while I dont know what I've done but it goes on some sort of cruise control and just starts wandering and finding things itself. So this scout has found me a couple other ships, but when I click on them and tell them to move, I get a dialog telling me that they are too far out of range and that I should return them to my sector (or a similar message), but I have no idea how to get them to go back to my sector.
Then onto the colony ship. Generally I just send them to the closest system (usually another yellow planet looking object on the screen) and colonize one of the planets. But which one should I colonize, does it even matter? Should I be sending this colony ship far away to colonize or colonize real close to where it starts?
So as you can see Im a total newb to space 4x games, and the pdf manual is not really helping me all that much (though i tried to read it from the screen and I really dont retain much info when reading from the screen), so Im printing it out, but in the first 20 pages so far printed, it's not doing a whole lot to tell me early game of what Im supposed to be doing.
Are there any sites, pages etc that give good starting play information for a total newbie.
Thanks,
LakeSide
