To elaborate on Turchany's point, refineries have four huge weaknesses that make them inferior in almost every way.Ī. In practice trade ports almost in every occasion give more money, and cheaper to build, and it is better to buy resources from the black market due to your extreme credit income if you have swarms of trade ports. Is the AI cheating blatantly or am I missing something? Considering I have two planets since 1/4 of the game and 3 planets by mid game, and that I fully developed their population infrastructure, I really don't get how can he have higher planet income. The funny thing, is that after I won, I realized that for at least 80% of the game he had higher planet income than me.
He didn't keep the second planet for more than a couple of minutes before I got it, so it didn't really contribute much to his economy. By the time the Advent got another planet (3/4 into the game), I had 4 planets and 2 asteroids against his 2 planets (1 just acquired) and two asteroids. Advent was kept busy fighting the other TEC (I helped by directing pirate attacks and giving resources to the TEC player). I got a pretty decent start, managing to defeat the Vasari and getting his planet.
In this last one, I played Wrathful(small map with 4 players, 6 planets, 4 asteroids), against TEC and Vasari normal and Advent hard opponents. I just got the game this week and played a handlful of games.
