On the other side of things, I found a planet with the Vast Plains resource(which isn't really a resource), strapped a planet thruster and some artillery on it and sent it around the galaxy to kill stuff. The only real limiter is the massive amount of ore needed for the ringworld - 25k, when the average asteroid has about 6k-8k.
My energy generation is strong enough to pay for it all with ease. And I could in theory keep doing that again, since one planet I control(and have built up to the highest level) has a special resource that infinitely creates random artifacts around it every few minutes - this includes all those planet creation kits and the like. To reiterate, I created a star, created a ringworld around that star, and am creating several planets around the ringworld to feed resources into it, all of which are self-contained around that star. And the star itself is artificial, created in the middle of nowhere.
To feed these worlds, as well as the ringworld, I'm using hydroponic satellites, megafarms, hydrogenators(planet structure that gives water), and comets(activatable artifacts that permanently give a planet water). Of course, I am putting these in the system I built the ringworld. I am also terraforming these planets to get whichever Tier-1 resources I need and whatever random Tier-2 resources I get(the T2 resource generation is the only thing I can't control). To do this, I'm using a large number of Planet Generators, which create a random planet anywhere around any particular star. Even better, when they asked for peace, I demanded that planet and got it.Īfter that, all I did was sit back and watch the rest of the galaxy tear itself apart in pointless warfare while I went and researched Final Frontier to win the game.īuilding up a ringworld. The only exception was a random event(prevented spying on the other empire) caused a war between me and the Drengin Empire, which ended after I nearly conquered one of their better planets while they made several failed attempts to take one of my worse ones. I don't really know.īut rather quickly, I went from last in tech to way and far to the most technologically advanced empire, causing everyone else to decide to not screw with me.
Maybe it's the fact that I picked that trait at game start that gives +25% luck, which suddenly decided to give me about a dozen free Ranger-class ships(fun combination of a Battleship and Survey Ship) over the course of several turns, meaning that I want from zero military to 3rd total just from those ships. Maybe it's the other empires all deciding to send their freighters to me, giving me some decent cashflow to actually get things done. Luckily, since they were on the opposite side of the galaxy, neither of us could reach the other. That's when I noticed they were flaunting Battleship and Dreadnought technology whilst I hadn't even researched Corvettes yet. From the opposite side of the galaxy, the Torians had declared war after I refused to just hand over the entire Sol system at their demand.
Spent most of the game thinking I was pretty much screwed.