Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters

• Don't bother going to planets with temperature above 400, weather above 4 or tectonics above 4. Don't even go to a planet with a combination of any two or more that's near that limit. The more crew you lose, the higher the cost to replace them.

• As far resource gathering, don't bother with anything that gives you less than 4 RUs.

• Upgrade your mothership's turning first. It makes navigation a billion times easier and even if you don't upgrade the speed you can at least escape from enemies chasing you because you don't turn like a tractor trailer.

• As soon as you reactivate the Earth space station, fly to Pluto.

• Talk to the Spathi as soon as possible, and follow their leads about the weird hole in space.

• Practice a bit with Pkunk Furies and Yehat Terminators, even when your mothership is an awesome engine of destruction.

• Your main ship shouldn't be seeing battle until approximately halfway through the game, when it's really upgraded.