Tip: If you're playing as the Pirates, nutrients and energy are easy to come 
by, so make mineral production a priority at your base locations. If you bump 
up your energy production with Tidal Harnesses, your income will easily rival 
that of the wealthy Morganites. 

Tip: In alien-vs.-human combat, sling around nerve gas as if it were going out 
of style. Because there are no interspecies atrocities, the discovery of High 
Energy Chemistry (which enables Nerve Gas Pods) is as significant as learning 
to build Needle Jets with Doctrine: Air Power. 

Tip: Because the Cybernetic Consciousness steal technologies when they conquer 
a base, and because they don't have any significant drawbacks when playing a 
military game, they should be played as aggressively as the Spartans or 
Believers against their weaker neighbors.