Since they're the most valuable thing in the game

you stretch out to far and bam now you cant support yourself

Let me update the game and see if it's changed

You don't really *need* to expand that much though

build slots are dependant on pop numbers per planet

Yeah

Just genocide the alien scum off the planets you take

So shit out pops..

You should've just put points into the offensive mutation tree, and infected them all with prolapsed urethras

you cant shit out pops

Then terraform them later

pop growth has been significantly reduced, save for rapid breeders or buildable pops

Well the meta in 2.2 was just massive pop growth

you need to support said pops with needed amenities and resources

Get that and you'd win

You already needed to do that

It was stupidly easy to do

Not a problem if you only have human pops

takes decades to get a colony up and running proper

So?

It already did

Not if use cheats <:pot_of_kek:544849795433496586>

You have planets dedicated to creating specific resources

*Feeders*

Then another for converting it

*Manufacturing*

by the time you have like 10 planets worth a damn its already mid game

So you can min-max buffs for that resource

Not really

Just expand quickly at the start

Rush to chokepoints

Capture them

This only is an okay game, if there are intoxicants in the form of plants

Then when your little area is 'secure'

Grab the planets quickly

this place is a haven of mediocrity

Even if you have 6 shit colonies, it doesn't matter

It's a temporary issue