If you have enough defenses, they'll usually get wiped out without doing too much damage. Waves will normally go to one of your planets that's adjacent to an AI warp gate.
Enable all the expansions, sure, but stick to simple unit types and don't turn on a bajillion AI plots and minor factions right off the bat.ĭestroying AI warp gates gives you some control over where the AI sends waves. Then my fleets go into a group that reserves a little metal for emergency turret placement.ĭon't turn on everything at once. I like to put big projects in a control group that only spends metal if I'm close to my cap. You can even put metal spending thresholds on control groups. but selecting that group will not select the dock. If you put a space dock in a control group, everything it builds will be in the same group.
Read some Let's Plays and After Action Reports.Ĭontrol groups are awesome. All of it the final portion is a mini-campaign that will cover a lot of important stuff.