its never gonna get extremely expensive....

1    MadMan
2    Developmental Duck
3    SKY
4    Adeptus Astartes
5    Darth Batman
6    Blind Mouse No 3
7    Nandro
8    Guy Gardner
9    Poley
10    Galapagos
11    Friday
12    Lone Cat
13    Abin Sur
14    Saturday
15    Blind Mouse No 2
16    pimpmode
17    TheBigOne
18    Hal Jordan
19    Rising Angel
20    Limitless

top 20 when planetnw is removed

So this is boring. No one saying anything X(

Shall we compare a little?

This was my opening build and estimated build vs actual

Opening Build:
5 HFs
245 CFs

Orders:
Tick 1: Cast SA (if possible) before tick 5 - Impossible
Tick 5: Launch 6 Explos - Done
Tick 6: Build 30 MFs, 9 RSs | Actual: 37 MFs, 10 RSs
Tick 7: Build 11 MFs, 1 RSs | Actual: 14 MFs, 1 RSs
Tick 8: 18 HFs | Actual: 18 HFs, 1 RSs
Tick 9: Build max CFs - around 20 | Actual: 3 RSs, 5 MFs, 11 CFs
Tick 10: Build max CFs - around 20 | Actual:
            If no iron - Max MFs | Actual: 16 MFs, 1 HF
Tick 11: Max MFs before bed | Actual: 1 HFs, 15 MFs

Observations: Had less iron to use for CFs then i thought i would and now while im not low on End technically, i wouldn't mind making a little more then i am. I'm good with food at least

I think that mass explo'ing in the begining is stupid.... get ur infra then get the planets, why waste money that you have to wait to recover with your one planet of cfs?

The last round of SD my ally and I did two different styles. I did the 6 explos to start and he did 2 i think and built them. By the time he FB the 2 planets i had almost the same amount of infra but i had 3 planets of  free space to build while he had to send out explos again.

The cost for him to explore multiple times versus the one opening time at 2500 each for me was noticeable also apparently.

@Hal: The one i wrote for today i've varied from it much more then the first 11 hours one

alot of infra seeming to be built by ppl over last few ticks (by alot i mean nw in the hundreds lol)
i went for a silly start tbh with 140 cf's 75 mf's 25'rc not really working out how id liked lol

the 50% income people will have an advantage over the 30% people (partaxes SS races and quantams) a few wardancers might be able to surivve, but i deem anything below 30% income doomed pretty quickly.

After that its really the fighting and the alliances that will decide it

Why explore all at once?

Because planets give pop and pop gives cash and not being able
To cast sa is expensive to explore so might aswell do it all on 1 planet. Plus you can explo iron endu and a blank planet to get all your bonus'

Not like that will matter when i come for you.... Muahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah... ha!

haha