by WakandaMan
There's been a lot of discussion lately about the amount of luck in the game, and one of the major factors is Hex draws. If you happen to be short on Money or Science though, there's always orbitals to fall back on.Where I am struggling is what to do if you don't get ANY materials planets? You can mitigate it a little with white planets and diplomacy, but it doesn't help much.
Last nights game I had plenty of money and decent science, but virtually no materials at all- no planets and only got one through a white planet, so I was producing 3 per turn. Yeah you can trade out money, but that is inefficient at best.
Any thoughts on what strategy to take with no materials? You can't build fleets, can't build monoliths, can't build orbitals....and research only gets you so far since most research is ship related.