- The United Empire is a good beginner faction, so stick with them. They are a straightforward defensive faction which is good at making tons of money, their ships get lots more HP and their planets are hard to capture, so you'll have a few extra turns to react.
- Unlike many 4x games, if you expand too fast your people will hate you since uncle jim is eighty light-years away.
- The best systems are ones that can support high population. Try to get systems with lots of planets in them, even if only one or two planets is any good, later you'll be able to terraform the others up to snuff and make a real powerhouse system out of it.