Stop colonizing before the AI stops colonizing.

I always have fewer planets than the AI at the end of the colony rush on Gig/Abundant all maps. But I stop colonizing earlier than the AI and get my planets to a truly functional state before the AI. This lets me gap ahead of the AI temporarily about the time the AI finishes the colony rush. While the AI is trying to make its planets function, mine are already firing away...I can then use this gap to jump the AIs before they are ready.

try and isolate your self from other races by setting up a parimeter (With cheap ships) around your empire then you can take any planet you want inside your empire without having to worry about other races taking them first.

Are you talking about starting an early war? That used to be a good option back in Galciv1. Korath in Galciv2 tend to have pretty good luck with that, too.

How so LostHero ??  

Do you mean a Great Wall of Thala (or whomever you are playing)?

This would be expensive and counter productive....

You would be spending so much money on building "wall ships" with little to no funds for the rush or war. Furthermore, i can't see how it would be possible after about 5-10 turns my empire's "space" is far to large for this, it would take hundreds of ships. So much so that i'll say that on a gig map this would be impossible.

Have you done this LostHero? If so what size map were you on and what state was your empire in afterwards, i can't see you having the 30-40 planets on average after a rush using this tactic.

No. I don't think i will ever use this.

Sorry but i can't see this working, even on a smaller map. Unless of course you are playing on cakewalk. You would be much better off arming those ships and destroying the colony ships than just blocking them.

Sorry but this tactic makes my laugh.....

Sorry i can't be helpful to you, and by all means play the game as you see fit, but i urge you to try something else.....

Of course i did! That's the point....Besides which, the common tactic would be to just build colony ships yourself and take all the planets around you. Remember a planet can colonized with just 1 person so population is no problem. Then it's just a matter of taking care of the "leakers" that the AI send out.

And i'm not too sure what game you are playing where the AI ignore class 9 and under planets. The only planets that the AI ignore are class 1.

I think it is high time you play a few more games before handing out advice that has no merit.

As for your sarcasm, there are players here who could fill a book with things you have not thought of. Shhhh i think someone is buzzing you in chat.......

Well, that's DEFINITELY not true. AI colonizes whatever it comes into contact with first, except PQ1.

maybe it's just my game then.

Hi!

Easily. Start game with cheats on, generate 500 ships and teleport them to position you want to form a wall. Piece of cake.

See LostHero, I play metaverse games just because they prove there's some experience behind my words here on forum. Currently we have only your word there's experience behind your post. Unfortunately the content of your post doesn't prove that.

BR, Iztok

now i am totally lost. i made that wall without cheats, and what do you mean by this telaporting buisness, is it similar to the stargates tecnology in the indroduction to the game?

Good one. (Makes not for future use)



Good one, I've done this, not really on purpose. It works well on some boards.



I try to colonize, towards the AI, to limit the AI's reach away from it's point of origin, and I backfill later. I just concentrate on the civ's closest to mine. On galaxies with tight clusters, I "planet hop," that is when I find a system with two habitable planets I take the larger one and ignore the smaller one until later, even the PQ4 near me. It makes good bait, all the AI's that scout it waste sending a colony ship to it, and I take it at the last possible turn. With the "planet hop" I get a mix of other civ colonies within my sphere of influence. Later I research the cultural domination tech and set up SB's to get them to flip over to my side. It's like getting free colonies. It can be economical to get ready made planet's at the AI's expense.

I play DA on normal. For my play style I wouldn't pick off the AI's colony ships. I like to be good and see how long the different AI's last against each other. You know max trade, everybody is my friend and my ally, giving me research and economic treaties, just a big happy galactic family, slowly falling under my influence. But as an evil civ, why not pick off all those juicy good civ colony ships! I mean everyone has to eat right? They're just targets! But first, extort them for 2000 bc and some tech's!