How did you learn to play this?

[DANNBOSS]

what was your way lol

[stax]

There are some good guides floating about, i took a look at it but did not understand half the stuff.

Disabled all automation and started a game with a harsh homeworld. Every coin mattered, and i could see the effect of my actions. Crashs-and-burn result of course. Started a new game with same settings, and tried to do better based on what happened the first time. Failed a bit less hard. Started again and again, until i understood by experimentation what's a good idea and what's not.

Then i read that guide again. Made more sense the second time. Slowly got to a point where i could get from a harsh start to a somewhat acceptable economy.

Then i started playing on a normal homeworld, and the game became a breeze :P

[ZumZoom]

My way was learning and playing the first game (DWU), this one has mostly the same gameplay. I learned to play that one by reading this guide https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=266988099

[Tooslow]

Youtube, mainly DasTactic, but I learned to play the original game from the Newbie Guide here:

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=249772

[Tooslow]

Heh, great minds think alike. And even Stax's way is basically what the Newbie Guide advocated. Turning off all automation until you knew what it was doing.

[Corporal Cal]

Trial and error..... lots o error.

[Nightskies]

It's a dive to get into it. Plenty of questions, but mostly: why did that happen?

However, I read everything in the Wiki, the tutorials, and all the guides before researching jump drives. Now that the game itself has more detailed tooltips, I think it should be easier to understand without guides.

[soldier6661111]

Owning the game and playing it.

[russlog6]

2nd for Dastactic. I have trouble getting into strategy games. His YTs are very easy to listen to and quite thorough and helped me immeasureably.

[Bystandard]

I paid attention to the private economy. For me that was the interesting bit. The private economy is completely automated, or there abouts. The more freighters it has the more you can tax! Finding ways to boost the private economy pretty much guides my gametime.
Higher populations is probable the 1st one. Then bigger freighters and passengers and ship speed annd... you get it.

Yea and Im in for Das too! or in this case 3rd. heheh I still refeer to his vid all the time.!

[TheCr33pur]

Back in DWU, been hanging in that game for many hours. Just have to learn how things work in there. It is more complex and realistic than Stellaris or any other space 4x game i ever played.

[starbuck310]

Start small. Play all the different factions.

[borealis]

Put the automation on suggest and execute it will work like a tutorial on his own

[ashbery76]

With full control and reading the ingame pedia.

[Tooslow]

Originally posted by russlog6:

2nd for Dastactic. I have trouble getting into strategy games. His YTs are very easy to listen to and quite thorough and helped me immeasureably.

If you ever watch his Twitch channel he can be meticulous explaining what he's doing. They're like an online university.

[Siddha]

I haven't learned to play DW2 yet... but it will be the same way I learned DWU
Very slowly
No automation at slowest speed from a pre-warp start with AI set to only suggest
Then read all the tool tips and the Galactopedia... learning the UI is fundamental

Also for DWU I watched & listened to Larry Monte's Lets Plays on Youtube