So hypothetically if I were to start a new game from scratch, when should I first start a colony? When I have $3 mil and at least two capital ships with 50+ fleet?
some didn't start colony to make profit. they use it as gas station.
to me there some condition to convinced me that a good time to start colonized
- found a good food source & low hazard (usually terran)
- have some colony item (production boost)
- have lotta fund (fully develop cost no less than 2m)
- have full roll of decent officer (and mayb one capital depend on your style)
- have some ship BP (to use it as defender and build for personal use)
- found nanoforge (either are fine and fine ship mean fine patrol)
- mayb atleast hit lv 15
if few condition met that mean we can deals with crise ourself. one way or another
let's say league crisis propose is . . .
to prevent player from start colony too early or growth it too fast.
they didn't obliterate your colony. at most they made your financial in red.
and same thing goes to TT crise but few people have a prob with that.
No I am not good at both building a fleet and earning credits. By all means please teach me the ways of the master, because I've looked at dozens of god damn youtube videos (big brain energy, GrumpyThumper, Uran92, Papa Chedder, etc.), builds, loadouts, strategies, guides, etc. etc. all to keep from getting my teeth kicked in and it clearly isn't working. So tell me the right meta to play this game.
i assume you don't want to choose violence for cred.
you can just go to kanta's den. here they always have excess lux/dos goods and drug if nothing go wrong.
bought all lux goods and haul it to Nova maxios. you will get 30-40k cred from selling all of those
while you're there bought supply from Nova too and sell it to kanta's den (it should be deceit)
by these step first 100k could be easy.
Another way for simply cred is become fuel merchant.
Pirate always have high demand for fuel so you can just grab couple of Fuel ship stock it on Sindria or Nachiteka.
and sell it to any pirate it may not much but quite stable source of income.
As for building fleet you can just looking for lowtech type with proper loadout (autofit)
they don't need much command to maintance. they win ai wars for a reason
and by doing that let take a look at autofit name. it told you which role of that loadout going to play.
just avoid elite variant.
