by KingofTown
We played our 2nd game the other night and tried out the alien races. One of the players was the red alien race (Eridani I think) and spent his first few turns exploring as we all basically did. He explored 7 tiles and didn't find a single brown or white planet. By this time, there were no more places to explore.How do you overcome this? If you were lacking other things, you could build orbitals to help you out...or even build ships to go take over other players brown planets...but only getting 2 building resources a turn makes it hard to build any sort of threat. Being alien makes the 3 to 1 trading pretty harsh as well.
We've yet to discard tiles from exploring. It feels like a waste of an action...but perhaps he should have used it in this case?
The Green alien race player just kept getting brown planets. He used all those resources to build orbitals and monoliths on all of his hexes with only a single point of entry to those without wormhole tech (even with, the only other entry point would have been just as hard to get through).
Having a lot of fun with this game so far!