How to expand borders?

[Cuppy]

My home system has literally no resources in it and I make +2 influence and can't build another outpost. How do I expand my borders?

[Tides]

restart....no other way to make your borders bigger besides the end game research which you wont have access to.

[Rez Elwin]

Your borders grow (very) slowly, they only way is to build an outpost, just wait for the resorces to come in for it. This game isn't really about rapid exspansion anyway. To get more resorces if your home system has none send out science ships to other stars and then after surveying the area send your construction ships to create minng platforms.

[mnemiq]

Colonies can be sent out too if you find any habitable planets.

[Cuppy]

My friends won't restart the game, so, I'm screwed I guess. I literally can't do anything

[Cuppy]

Originally posted by rezelwin:

Your borders grow (very) slowly, they only way is to build an outpost, just wait for the resorces to come in for it. This game isn't really about rapid exspansion anyway. To get more resorces if your home system has none send out science ships to other stars and then after surveying the area send your construction ships to create minng platforms.

I can't, none of the other stars are in my borders. I literally have no resources and no stars within my borders, and my borders won't grow. gg

[LazySamurai]

Well it goes slow. Expansion is very slow in this game at start. Which is a good thing since the AI is slow to do so too. Don't expect to grow into a massive empire in a few years. This game can be a massive time sink, just like EU. :o

Influence keeps piling up, don't spend it on anything else if you want to expand. Keep researching and if you see +1 or +2 influence in the middle research path ( with the green globe ) pick it and it will grow faster. But pick colonization as soon as possible too, since it is much faster to expand through colonies. So be sure to scout the planets with your survey ship all the time to locate juicy planets! You can queue survey orders by keeping left ctrl pressed and right clicking on the systems you want to survey.

But at the start you might need a forward outpost to secure some land because there are no suitable planets to live on. After making a forward outpost you can mine the resources in that new solar system.

Or you can make a colony ship and colonize a planet, then you won't need an outpost.
So only use outposts at start ( you can remove them later to get your influence back up ) or when you really don't want another empire taking up that solar system with nice resource goodies.


Or when you think you have a sucky start, just restart a new galaxy. A good start makes it so much easier, just like in the CIV gamesl.

[Rez Elwin]

How do you have no stars? Your basic empire starts with several even on a tiny galaxy. What does it look like when you zoom out, are you surrounded? If your playing with freinds ask for some minerals then fly out and build an outpost.

[gerzald]

No stars in warp range? You got a radomizer up the yin yang! Tell your friend, if he says no way, tell him he is no longer your friend.

[Dr. Cessa]

You need to wait to have the resources to build it. Move some pops in your planet to increase the resource production in your planet and stockpile Influence. Use that time to explore other solar systems and enjoy extrasolar events in the meanwhile.
So, be patient, in the beginning things are slow.

[AFatalPapercut]

Just start a new game, if things look better go with that save file and delete the one you have now. Build up your home planet facilities if you can/need to. Have a scientist survey everything around you to start, and a few beyond for the events and anomalies and such. If you got no stars around you and chose a FTL type that won't allow you access to ones further, you are effectively deadlocked I'd say.