Third Colony Rush

do you partake?

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Just one of those threads asking everyone what they do when they play...

If you consider the initial colony rush #1 and the colonly rush for extreme environments #2, I would call the the Third colony rush the one where you go out and grap the PQ1's.

I never used to go after all of them but i do now. I was just wondering who else makes it a point, later in the game to colonize them all. Or do you just grap some? And when?

I take the ones that are deep in my space right after i get the orbital terraformers or when I go neutral. The ones further away I go after when I can spare the population and when I don't have to worry about them flipping; being surrounder by AI influence. When my economy is booming i can buy a manufactuing plant or a stock echange each turn. The industrial secotrors are too expensive to rush buy (even if i have the cash) for not much more added MP. I let them upgrade later at their own pace. Ifthings work out well, i have a staging planet for a war on the surrounding race. Typically though Im already at war by the tiome i have the economy to do what i said.

The PQ you get from the is great. Minimum I got was 13 and the max was 19. Most were 16. Better than most of my other planets. Too bad there weren't hidden bonus tiles that are found after terraforming.

So, how many of you bother with those PQ1's?

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I tend to have about a colony rush and a half-I normally pick up extreme environments while I'm in my first rush.  I don't wait on the PQ1-4 planets; I colonize them as I see them, so long as I have at least soil enhancement researched.

I don't tend to have manufacturing centers very early on, for whatever that's worth-and in the instances that I do, I don't have industrial sectors.

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

PQ1 and 2 planets tend to have the highest ammount of terraforming tiles, usually 5 or 6 per terraforming tech. I personally start to grab them after I finish my first colony rush and then ferry people to the PQ1 planets. As population doesn't seem to increase on those at all.

After a while, without any terraforming tech, they'll all become net profit planets which is nice. It helps me to fund my other planets untill I get some terraforming tech and expand them. I usually end up with PQ 16 or 19 for PQ1 planets and PQ 17 or 20 for PQ 2. The worst I've ever seen was only 3 tiles per tech on a PQ1 planet and having it end up at PQ10.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

At the higher difficulty levels that i play, there is no second colony rush, The AI is usually busy rushing extreme planets in my territory before i can even build my first combat ship! And it is quite stupid because those AI races that get the obsession to rush my territory, usually find themselves failing in their quest and end up loosing most of their own worlds to other AI races and then end up piss weak and it unbalances the game.