What is the right tactic for expanding borders now?

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marshill88

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Sorry for putting up 2 threads in 20 minutes...just trying hard to learn how to play with all the changes.

I notice that my borders are pretty firmly fixed around single stars now (unlike before). In the last version of the game, I used to build outposts far away to then "absorb" stars in between my homeworld and the outpost.


So from my homeworld now, on my new game, there is a star immediately adjacent to me with good resources. In the past, I would incorporate this star by building an outpost several stars further out.

Is it a new strategy to build outposts from star to star now?