Most Important thing in this game ENERGY

[Buzzerker]

if you don't have a strong energy economy you will lose. End of lesson.

[NINJEW]

i mean yes

[Midas]

Energy is 'gold' in in planetfall, so yes. However, the energy economy is not hard to manage, and is not the main bottleneck to worry about.

The REAL important resource is cosmite.

[StarFishon]

If you dont have good economic energy its will be very hard to attack because operations cost energy..

Cosmite can manage with research to have your main army upgrade.

I'm against extreme ai 4-6 and win 99% of games.

If you have enough energy you will be strong, if in addition you have enough cosmite you will crash the ai.

When you have strong economy you can buy instant units so loss not hurt you too much.

[Buzzerker]

I'm on the Dvar / Chimera mission of the campaign, I beat it once, then I played as Zhelezo's daughter chasing down the redeemers which appears to be the second half of this same campaign. I built up to 4 colonies but got defeated 4 times by three different enemies that all declared war on me at the same time.

I deleted all my saved games and decided to start that second half of the campaign again but now I find that I have to play the first half of the Chimera campaign again to get to the daughter which is a continuation of that campaign.

The minute you choose to research Purifiers, Mephilas the Redeemer declares war on you and eventually, if you don't have your units built up or you're building up your army too slowly, he takes you out.

When I beat him that first time I knew I was going to win and I did.

Repeating the feat is turning out to be difficult.

[Frogshackle]

When setting up a new colony I rarely pick any option other than the energy generating reactor. SOMETIMES I'll choose the food option if I got a tough break on the map and have nothing but desert and lava all around but a reactor is usually the obvious choice.

[Buzzerker]

In my opinion what Planetfall appears to be at it's core is a war game. That's how I look at it. I can't wait to finish the campaign but it's taking some time to accomplish. You have to watch your step, not get too overconfident or you get defeated real easily. Even when you think you're doing well.

[Zenicetus]

Cosmite is more important for me, because that determines which parts of the map I want to reach as quickly as possible and exploit. You can get cosmite increase buildings later on, but in the early game, I'm always exploring and fighting for those cosmite resources on the map.

Energy-rich regions don't drive my expansion strategy the same way. I can usually keep on top of energy requirements one way or another through trade, or balancing my standing army upkeep.

[404 Float not found]

I'm gonna throw my hat into the ring with a controversial answer, and that is food. With food you can ramp up not only colony production but the production of new colonies to get those shiny resources.

[Charlando[SunsOfStmChrts]]

you're not wrong

[ashbery76]

Thank you for this revelation.

[00yiggdrasill00]

i learnt this the hard way.

[Vlerk]

That's why a huge lamer like me made a MORE ENERGY mod.. enjoy

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1831777288

[Midas]

Originally posted by 404 Float not found:

I'm gonna throw my hat into the ring with a controversial answer, and that is food. With food you can ramp up not only colony production but the production of new colonies to get those shiny resources.

Early on I find food production is very important, but realistically you only need 1-2 dedicated food production colonies. After that, your energy/cosmite is literally your military strength.

[Buzzerker]

Food is important in the beginning, It's basically the foundational resource of your colony. No people to build stuff then you build it slow. Too slow and your enemies overwhelm you.

[Sinsling]

Y'all are crazy and the real resource king is research.

Really though, you can make any of the resources work. It just takes some brain juice.