Microprose Veteran: I guess we just have a different approach. I'm not really into the military side of it. I build up my military towards the end (only building enough to defend each colony from attack before then), but only once my colonies are very well established. I'm all about the development of colonies and micromanagement of my economy. I like to end up with about a dozen colonies of size fifteen at least (excluding any fortified military units). These bring in several thousand gold each turn in trade. Ultimately, victory points can be gained from a lot of different sources, so I go for both quantity and quality of colonists, plus a lot of gold (I usually pass the 200K mark long before I declare independence).
I'm still curious about the effects of missions, as I don't normally build them. What do they do exactly?
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