I am a brand new player, never played Neptune’s Pride (or other games of that sort) before. Nevertheless I enjoy it a lot! I joined a beginners game and it is now at Cycle 6 - Tick 162. Unfortunately 3 players left the game already (there went my allies and trade-partners…) and a 4th one will probably go afk soon as well - however the other 4 (me included) seem to stick around.
My biggest problem right now is the AI. I am stuck between 2 AIs and one of them already took 2 of my stars.
It gets technology at a pace I can’t match in the long run and it destroyed 100 of my ships while it only lost 30.
On top of that it has a significant advantage in weapon-technology (1 level at the moment, probably 2 soon).
I would like to have a second opinion about my strategies / 1-on-1 coaching from a Triton-Veteran. Because the game is still going (and I am new to the forum) I won’t / can’t post any screenshots here. I would highly appreciate the opportunity to talk to a veteran through skype / teamspeak / mumble. I can’t send private messages here on the forum (because new to the forum) so if you want to help me out, please send me a PM with instructions on how to contact you.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Kind Regards
Sabotsas
While Rosslessness was so kind to set me up with a galaxy filled with AI (to figure out how it works), we were not able to discuss my in-game situation in greater detail yet. Rosslessness gave me some good tips but the last couple of days I checked the forums for these as well.
What I am most interested in right now is to get another opinion about my current strategy / current situation - preferably via some voice-over-ip program, because it saves quite some time versus typing a whole essay. I can share my window via skype so it is possible to check my galaxy. Otherwise I can also offer to upload a screenshot.
xtrafresh helped me out quite a bit - huge thanks for that! We did a 1-on-1 skype session
and went over my current game as well as some of his past games for providing examples of
certain situations. I learned a lot and hopefully this will translate into my current and future plays. If I have any more questions I will come back to this forum and its great community!
You can trade with AI by the way, you can do that to get some of their tech. If their status towards you is 0 or positive, and you send them the amount of money specified to “improve your relationship,” then if they have a tech that you don’t they’ll send it to you.
Hey @Rosslessness - how exactly did you create a “galaxy filled with AI” for Sabot?
I found another completely new player and I wanted to create a game like that for him to learn everything in, but I couldn’t figure out how…did you just have people join and quit? Or am I missing something?
