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Played some more Slipways a little bit ago and got a 5 star+ rating (5 stars with one being platinum). I think what I enjoy about the game is that, yes, it's more of a puzzle than anything else, but you can change the shape of the pieces. Most planets have multiple input/output combinations, and the tech tree gives you zillions of different ways to change the formula. Yes, techs are random, that's true. But there are so many techs that allow you to solve the same problem in different ways that you're almost always going to have access to at least one solution. As an example, the simple problem of "Planet A is too far from Planet B to link them together." Here are the tech solutions I've seen:
There's probably more that I either haven't seen or have forgotten about.
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SettingSun posted:The news that there are higher rankings than 5 stars in Slipways excites me. I have a whole lot to learn about how that game works. Yeah, it surprised me too. For the record, the first platinum star is at 16,000 points, and the second is at 20,000. Here's a screenshot of my empire in that game:  I went heavy on tech early on and it paid off. The seed is up above the stars on the left if anyone else wants to give it a go.
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Yeah, doing just one more task would have gotten you to 5 stars. Each task generates 500+ endgame points (they're usually 10-12 legacy points, and each legacy point is 50 endgame points) before counting the happiness multiplier. Sometimes the tasks just don't want to cooperate, though.
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Walh Hara posted:Slipways chat: since switching to challenging difficulty I don't prioritise labs that much anymore. Main priority is to get some planets to succesfull as soon as possible, because that's the best way to get money. I only start building labs when money is no longer an issue at the end of the year. Labs are a good way to do that because they provide an export outlet for goods that can be difficult to multi-export. That said, I haven't played on Challenging yet. I did get my first double-platinum score earlier. I gotta say, the tech to collapse planets into stars that produce two energy solves almost any problem. 
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OK, I know I've been posting a lot of Slipways screenshots, but I don't think I'm going to top this one any time soon, so please forgive another: Short version: I combined the green insect race's perk to reduce structure build time by 1 month with the techs to turn planets into stars, build monoliths for happiness, instant-build slipways for double price, and create teleporters. The result is that I spent well over a thousand credit just cross-teleporting goods and monoliths around my core systems, which took 0 months to do. This required a very strong science base, which I fueled by taking the tech thats let me turn free population on pop-producing worlds into tech as well as just having a few good lab locations. Also important here is that this seed has quirks that give +10% score from slipway cost penalties kicking in early and change the empire size score bonus into 300 score per tech you research. For the record, "full platinum" is the highest the stars go, although obviously the score itself isn't capped.
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