Minimum starting tech game advice

[robertbc73]

I love early tech games but I either go too heavy on science and not enough production or the reverse. Any simple advice to go by?

Playing UDM mod.

Thank you

[robertbc73]

Whoah! Not so many tips guys.

[Flocke]

member the minors!

[Martok]

If you're not already doing so, specialize your star systems. Large systems should generally focus on industrial output and building ships; smaller systems are generally best used to produce research and intel.

[robertbc73]

Even the systems for intel and research need industry to get those intel and research.

[cleverwise]

I have built many big empires with well over 100 systems and in some mods millions and millions of credits (one mod I stopped at over 4 million credit because it got boring and was all naturally done). The way I do it is simple. Colonize fast. It doesn't matter who I am playing (Feds, Cards, Kling, Domin, etc) I keep building colony ships and teraforming like it is going out of style.

Sure sometimes I over reach and lose a system here or there but I am building like crazy. Often by turn 100 I have 20 to 40 systems and before long I am unstoppable. I have to much industry, to much intel, etc. Plus my economy gets huge like 50,000+ per turn (in some mods), so I can just pay off a major and make them my alliance partner.

So bottom line... Colonize! Colonize! Colonize!