Forum Overview :: Gamerasutra :: Also I figured out the trick to a successful start-up

[quote name="Fortinbras"]Spam Colonization Cruisers. The way most games do it, you send in a single colonization ship and you're done, come back in ten-twenty turns. Not unlike the Weyland-Yutani strategy in Aliens. In Sword of the Stars if you send a single piddly ass destroyer to a planet to colonize you'll be paying upkeep and construction costs on it for 200 turns. You have to mass-build colonization cruisers, 10-20 should be enough, and send them to a planet and mass-colonize it. Each ship moves the climate slider more towards your races natural preferred climate and dumps about 10,000 people onto it. Once you pass about 500,000-1,000,000 people or so the growth will take off like a fucking rocket. [/quote]