Tall vs wide gameplay

[svenvangent]

Came across this on the internet thinking could be interesting ..

Tall advantages

• Gets tech + traditions faster than wide
  
  
• Easier to micromanage planets
  
  
• Easier to block invaders at chokepoints due to smaller territory
  
  
• Friendlier relations with other empires due to lack of border friction
  

Tall disadvantages

• You can get utterly screwed if someone takes a chunk out of your territory
  
  
• Greater reliance on AI controlled vassals + federations for wars
  
  
• Technological edge erodes somewhat in the mid-late game when everyone starts researching repeatables instead of new tech
  

Wide advantages

• Has more net population, naval capacity, and income which translates directly into a stronger military
  
  
• More territory = bigger buffer zone between core systems and potential invaders.
  
  
• Greater chance of seizing control of game changers like abandoned megastructures, L-gates, leviathans, etc.
  

Wide disadvantages

• Bigger empire = more border friction = more enemies = higher chance of fighting a multi-front war
  
  
• Mid-lategame management nightmare
  
  
• Slower tech + traditions means you won't be able to build your own megastructures as soon as tall empires
  
  
• Your military is going to be spread thin until you can build your own gateways
  
  
• Needs to deal with internal security + ethics shift issues if you conquer a bunch of xeno worlds.
  

 

[RaNdOmKiLs666]

Another advantage wide has is the ridiculous amount of mineral income you get once you control a sizable amount of territory. Energy credit management can become a big issue mid-game and onward though.

 

[svenvangent]

Another advantage wide has is the ridiculous amount of mineral income you get once you control a sizable amount of territory. Energy credit management can become a big issue mid-game and onward though.

I think minerals are very imported diffidently in the begin game .