I got lost & posted this in tourney...so I hauled it over here..
Anybody got a no explore start up strat? as in grabbing to get your first land...I always use a farmer/indy combo start up, but it takes up too many turns & explores the first 1k or so...& all those bots with 100 troops, there's gotta be a quicker way to get up & running?

Indies/farms 70/30 ratio 10/90 spies/jets build 100 rigs first to have oil to hit with then once at turn 100 start scanning list for oop players and hit, build cs for readiness sell jets for income to grow food to build. If your gains are less then 100 per hit you are better exploring upto 2k.