It felt bad!
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Normally, I will not suck this badly.
But, probably do to extremely bad luck, I am stuck with 2-3 planets for the enitre game. No thanks to the fact my place is COMPLETELY isolated from everyone else and they snatched up all the good planets.
This is certainly not my finest moment!
Good luck.
Or, it is just a game after all - not real life.
You could always start a new one.
Personally, I'd advocate sticking it out. If you somehow manage to win this, it will be a memorable experience - comebacks always seem to make the greatest stories. Even if you die horribly at the hands of the AI, it still ought to be a memorable experience.
Reminds me of the many games I played under the one sector challenge rules. Concentrate on tech research, trade every turn, don't bother to build any military, gift to the more powerful to keep them from declaring war, and build influence star bases to flip their planets. Good luck!
It can be a good thing, not all races can easily reach you until they made starbases, all you need to do is build a huge army in your isolated area, and send it to the planets you think are best.
PS:Can you upload the map image here?I'm curious to know what it is.
@Are you Zach?@
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Also, my memorable experience was my first game, I fought the drengin,unaware of them building a military, I only had 1 planet, I decomissioned my colony ship, the drengin colonized all the planets, but their tech was slow, I built a army so huge, it was 50 parsecs wide, only 15 transports, one planet, I felt like I was going to lose, by the time I captured one planet, I fought my very first ship, and this was on the dread lords game, not the ultimate edition, I have bought both of them. Anyway, when I colonized my first planet, I fought my first ship, thinking it was easy, I lost 2 ships fighting it, but they only had 16 planets colonized, they only took one of their planets back, and it was their 2nd last one, I made their homeworld be colonized last, the game lasted,... 6 game years, and on the last planet of theirs, I had 6 ships, in one fleet, they had 10 ships in one fleet, I felt like I was going to lose, but the outcome was my first close call, my ship had 1/24 hitpoints at the end of the battle, and I defeated all of their ships, then I sent my last troop transport, I won, this my my memorable experience that I will never forget, I remember the game forward, backwards, I remember how much I didn't know of the game, I was a lucky noob with a close call, nearly a hero to my people on the game. Also, first planet was also Isolated, I done something harder than you, and tell us what settings you put on your game, what races, what intellegence you put on them?????
@Are you Zach?@
Thanks for the advice, everyone.
However, the game is lost because the Torians (who are doing surprisingly well this time since they always sucked in my previous games) got beyond mortality and their empire is too big and their ships are too powerful for me to stop them from getting technology victory, which is imminent.
At least I will make sure this will not happen to me again, because I do remember my mistakes and I learn from them.
If you get a really dreadful setup like that, you can use ctrl-N to restart automatically using the same parameters you originally set in all those startup screens. Ctrl-N and repeat 'till you get something you can live with.
What is the - stuff for between ctrl and a letter or number? Do you have to press ctrl - and N? Or what? I only know crtl + N a bit, do I have to press + also? Well I ain't playing this game again anyway so why do I care?
Troll 
I only like having a few planets if I have treaties with everybody have snatched up all the resources and have everybody trying to keep the big man in the universe down with war. If not then I'm trying to buy colonies for techs throughout the game.
PS I don't think the 2 planet players feel anything.
Oh believe me, it is painful.
Painful to see me struggle to actually be something, knowing that even the minor races have better ships than you.
Besides, this is a HUGE map. Having 2 planets may be OK if it is a tiny map. But the fact that everyone is at least 100 times more powerful than you, with random events working against you, you will feel pain.
Come back to me once you felt pain.
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