This is the last post in my series about strategy and tactics in Neptune’s Pride. Here I’m going to explain a few things about the trading system which might not be clear, and a few ways you can use it to manipulate the game. Finally I’ll talk about star garrisons. If you’re already pretty familiar with the game I suspect you will get more value out of this post than the others

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Welcome to part 3 of my guide to Neptune’s Pride! This time I’m going to be talking about your economy, industry and technology

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This is the next part of a series where I discuss how to play Neptune’s Pride. In this part I’m going to cover diplomatic relations with other players – you are very unlikely to win a game if you play in isolation so this is incredibly important.

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I’ve previously written about the browser based game Neptune’s pride, and having played a few games now I’m going to share some of the tricks and nuances of the game I’ve come across. I won’t be covering the basic stuff like capturing planets since this can be read from the game’s help page. The first part of this will cover an area of the game that causes a great deal of confusion for new players, the combat system. Once you’ve read this those confusing defeats where your 10 ships were beaten by 1 should make make more sense.

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If you’ve ever been to the beach, you’ll probably have noticed there are two types of kids – those who have fun building sandcastles and those who prefer kicking down other peoples. I’ve been playing a game called Minecraft recently, and it strikes me as a perfect online representation of this constant cycle of creation and destruction.

A nice castle that someone has spent a lot of time on

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Neptunes Pride is a new browser based game from Iron Helmet. The premise is a simple 4X game where up to 8 players compete to control a set number of stars, at which point they are declared the victor. The game takes place on a Flash-based map of the Galaxy from which you conduct your conquests. It is designed so that you just need to log in once or twice a day and issue a few orders.

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