Influence, what am I doing wrong

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I have started over at least 25 times and each time in about 50 moves I have about 4 sectors of influence and the other races have about 20 to 30. What am I doing wrong? And how do you keep them from going to war with you. I never do anything and the hostility just goes up and up until they go to war with me. >:(
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
To get more influence, be sure to settle as many systems as you can. Then build influence/culture enhancing social projects. And cultural modules on starbases. Lots and lots of both. :)

As for stopping them going to war with you, get ahead of them in the military strength rating if possible, or at least try and stay close behind them. The greater their superiority in military matters, the greater the chance they'll choose to exert that superiority and take your planets away. :)

~SDC~
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Is it best to take a low amount of colonist so not to deplete the home world or should I always take half?
Star Control: Origins
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Thanks
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
Also lower your taxes so you get higher pop growth. Higher pop means higher imfluence.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
Max pop growth at 100% morale.

One tactic I heard about that I've had great success with is setting military to 90% or 100%, social and/or research taking the rest. Leave it like this for a few turns. Produce only colony ships, plus maybe, _maybe_ a scout or two. Manually launch from your homeworld, autolaunch from the new colonies. Keep spreading until you run out of room to spread in, then change from military production to research for however long you want, then to social to get the first two or three improvements available there.

Play on from that point.

Best of luck and mind that 'YMMV' (your mileage may vary)
Damian

~SDC~