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Just wanted to make a quick introduction. I'm Huwie, and I'm completely new to the Space Empires series. My girlfriend bought me SEV recently and after about 50 turns I'm loving it!
I do have a question. Is there anything that, as a completely new player, you think I ought to know? I'm aware of certain mods, especially with regard to AI, but I plan to play through a medium-sized galaxy at least once with the vanilla version first just to get a feel for things. But any other info you feel I should have would be most welcome. Thanks!
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Welcome to the forums Huwie!
Groovy Baby Yeah!
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welcome huwie, hope you´ll enjoy playing SEV 
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and hey the best way to leaarn is by reading the forums and playing game gainst human oponents.
be happy to do PBEM as have a few already going at mo, gud fun.
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ha ha. best way to get pwned is to play against human players 
Comp is pretty decent for learning the basics. doesn't put up much of a fight.
In multi you really have to get creative to counter other players fleets 
Be sure to get the lastest patch. It cleans up alot and helps with turn processing.
Tutorial also gives a good taste of what to expect. but with you being 50 turns in already, sounds like your doing alright.
Use the combat simulator to test your designs.
sensors (combat and ecm) help ALOT for fighting.
Mines are the bane of the computer, if you want them to stop coming through a certain warp point, set up a minefield.
Supply ships.
Supply Satellites
Sensor Drones
colonize colonize colonize!!
and have fun!
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Thanks for the warm welcome!
Yeah, I have the latest patch. Actually I started playing a week or so ago but had to stop due to that memory access bug. Looks like the latest patch has taken care of that.
"colonize colonize colonize!!" - hehe, yeah, I couldn't agree more. The first thing I did was concentrate all my research into colonisation techs, then filled all the resulting colonies with more research centres. My research is insane now, I'm levelling up about a dozen different techs every two turns!
The simulators are extremely cool, especially with the facility to introduce enemy designs into them. That'll give my intelligence teams something to work on.
Captain Kwok, thanks for that link. I'll take a look in a bit.
Only about 12 hours until I can play again... 
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Here's a nice little starting guide:
http://wiki.spaceempires.net/index.php/Crash_Course_Starting_Guide
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