Well, let me tell ya....lol. But seriously, I go for quantity. I colonize everything i can get my hands on. My first colony ship goes to the closest habitable planet and manufacturing. My home world is all manufacturing also. I start to build colony ships from turn one and usually rush buy factories on my home world. Once I get my first colony ship off the assembly line, i send it out as far as it can go. When i find a suitable planet out there, colonize, factories and starport, and start on colony ships. Depending on where my home planet is in the galaxy i'll do this a couple of more times to get as far out in every direction. I'll use these far flung planets to futher expand out in every direction, basically the same as home world. back on my home planet, with her colony ships i start filling in the gaps. Every planet i pretty much decide(though maybe not permantly) as soon as i settle it. I like specializing. All planets get a factory as first build. Then on about 60-70 % of my planets, economic structures. Research on the other 30-40 %. If I find a good PQ16 or above along the way, Manufactoring planet. I usually wind up with about 100 planets, 10 of which will be manu, 65 econ and the remainder research. Like i said, balance isn't really in my vocabulary, i specialize on all planets. Oh, I almost forgot, on that first planet i colonized, i concentrate it on building my scanner ships, get about 4 or 5 of them up and running and your going to get over 70% of the anomolies, (lots of goodies). I play on tough, huge, abundant everything with a custom race. I've posted one game so far and just finishing up my next game.
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