Stay within your small vicinity until you are ready to expand again. Do not go picking a fight with a large and powerful Empire. You will at best be able to take on the lighter species and pirates. You also are very vulnerable, and have weak weapons. Early on, you will only be able to travel very short distances. If you do this, you are asking for trouble. Without it, you are really nothing.ĭo not over expand to the point where you cannot defend yourself. Bribe your enemies to stave them off from attacking your nation. Remember, you are playing the path of peace, not the path of war. Use this to create turrets for your colonies, and enhance your cargo slots, and terraforming abilities.

When you begin to roll in large amounts of money from Spice Trading and other sources of Income (Artifact Selling is a great source of early income), you will have lots of money to spend. If you expand too far out, your colonies are much harder to defend, and you are more likely to trigger other species into attacking you. This way at the very worse you trigger a slightly aggressive species, but they will more then likely not attack you. You can also establish defenses easier, as you can build more Turrets.īegin expanding on the planets IN YOUR SYSTEM. An established planet has resources, and you can grow your colony larger then if it was on a non-terraformed planet. I know everyone wants to slap colonies left and right, but you HAVE to Terraform the planet before you colonize it. Always, Always, Always, Always, Always Terra Form the planet before establishing your colony Also, you can purchase their Systems once you become rich enough after establishing a major trade route with the Species.ī. Be sure to keep good relations with them, as they will be your major source of income and protection (Fleet units). They will be your protectors early on, and your source of income. Remember to ally with peaceful species early on that are near you Without well established colonies, you will have very little income, and very little defenses.Ī. Do not, I repeat, do not start a colony before Terraforming it. These are very important in establishing your new colony. Some key components you want early on are the Atmospheric Generators / De-Generators. Look for the spices that are local to you, and trade with these species (where most profitable) and begin saving up. When starting out in the Space Stage, it is best to remember that you are very small, and you will need the help of other friendly species in the game. You can however, minimize the amount of combat, which is very helpful to you in the beginning of the game. The Herbivore / Peace Path / Economist PathĪlot of people will complain about this, but you cannot play the Space Stage without combat. Without building up your planets, and establishing your beginning Empire, you are truly setting yourself up for disaster, as many people have.Ī. Also, many people do not realize how important it is to Terra Form and build up their planets. What most people don't realize is that, you cannot go out gung ho and start rampaging people left and right in the Space Stage like you could in the other stages. It's very fun, open ended, and actually fairly easy once you get the hang of it. I've been reading about the complaints about the Space Stage of Spore.

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