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In your early turns, is it better to quickly grab an available planet with a low level (I'm specifically thinking of Mars when you play a Terran), or search the galaxy for a few turns until you find something with a higher level?
It's usually not a good idea to grab the "Mars" planet in your home system - since it's right next to your homeworld, when the AI eventually colonizes it, it'll flip pretty quickly back to you.
As to whether it's better in general to snag low-PQ planets immediately or wait for something better, that really depends on the circumstances.
I grab that usual low PQ near the starting planet quickly so that my other colony ships (speed 1) can gain an extra 2 moves by landing on it then launching in the same turn.
Neat trick, Zarnick!
Since I put a lot of resources into early research, I do not make a new colony ship for several turns. That leaves me with only the one you start with and the converted miner. I generally send the flagship in one direction and the colony ships in two others. If the flagship finds a high PQ one that I cannot pass up, I shift production gears then. Similarly, if a gree resource is spotted, I shift to building a constructor.
I covet early green resources so much that I have sometimes sacrificed one of the early colony ships by converting it into a constructor at the resource location.
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