Hi, I am very excited to see this game alive and well after all these years! I was a big Earth 2025 fan back in the late 90's and early 2000's. I played Indy's, Techer, MBR, Casher, and Farmer before so I have the fundamentals down. I am signed up for Tournament, and want to go play INDY to get my feet wet. What I am unsure of is the protection strategy, and different benchmarks there after. There once were build orders, turn by turn to optimism this phase. And then generalized benchmarks there after such as bulk explore to xyz acres. Or at this land size it is now best to SS instead of explore.

I had them darn near memorized in the past, but looking at it now it feels so foreign. So I need a little guidance on protection strategy.

you could join on some alliance (rival, omega, evolution, moral decay, laf) on alliance-server or ffa (tko, icd, cc) and try strats with 16 countries and re-learn game.

new alliance set starts soon and next ffa set starts even sooner.