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Strategies, or "Strats", are just as they sound. Specialized playing methods to maximize a countries growth potential.
There are several strategies recommended for various purposes in Earth Empires. They are chiefly developed to capitalize from the bonuses offered by the various governments you may choose from, as well as situational requirements such as netgaining or warfare.
Some strategies may assist you in focusing heavily on the production of military units, oil, bushels, or technology for sale on the public market to generate a profit, where one other will have you generating high amounts of income in order to purchase these goods from market.
With all strategies it is important to understand that there are always pros and cons, and to build a successful country you have to depend heavily on the Public Market system that is known to become quite volatile at times.
Below is listed a few of the more common, and popular strategies within the Earth Empires community;
These are only a basic examples. Many more strategies exist and are constantly being tweaked and redesigned to enhance game play.
Summary of strategies
| Summary of strategies | ||||||||
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| Growth potential | Primary buildings used | Primary tech needed | Importance of tech | Primary government | Secondary governments | War ability | General difficulty of play | |
| Industrialist | Medium | Industrial Complex | Industrial | Medium | Communism | (none) | Medium high | Suitable for beginner |
| Farmer | Medium | Farm | Agricultural | High | Fascism | Dictatorship, Republic, Democracy | High | Suitable for beginner |
| Casher | Medium high | Enterprise Zone, Residence | Business, Residential | Very high | Republic | Democracy, Dictatorship, Theocracy | High | Intermediate |
| Techer | High | Research Lab | (none) | Low | Theocracy, Tyranny | Democracy | High | Experienced |
| Reseller | variable | Military Base | Military | High | Theocracy | Democracy | Low | Expert |
| Oiler | variable | Oil Rig | (none) | Low | Fascism | (none) | Medium high | Experienced |
| Rainbow | Low | Every building | Medium | Variable | Any government | N/A | Low | (do not use) |
Notes on difficulty of play
It is generally agreed that industrialist and farmer are the most stable strategies due to the constant demand for their products on the public market. Farmer is thought to be somewhat easier than industrialist since food can always be sold on the private market instantly.
Cashers are next on the tier of difficulty because the casher is very vulnerable in the beginning and relies heavily on tech, requiring the player to carefully balance military and tech based on general community conditions, alliances, presence of potential enemies, etc.
Techers must spend turns exclusively for teching, while all the other strategies except reseller generate their income passively no matter how the turns are used. This adds another element of complexity.
Oiler is a very difficult strategy because oil is the least demanded commodity and prices are generally too low for oiler to be competitive with other strategies.
Resellers must understand market tendencies, and resellers must buy and sell two or three times a day every day, which makes the strategy even more difficult to play.
In the current earth environment (Early to mid 2011), the majority of players are indies, farmers, cashers, or techers.
