* * * UTOPIA TIPS * * *

               Sent in by the Bitmap Kid

1) Make sure you look at the advisors' panels on the second of
each game month, sometimes they are not updated until then. The
Psychiatrist (F1) and the Admin man (F2) are most useful for
determining your priorities for the coming month.

2) Keep a good load of Flux pods throughout your colony so you can
build freely. In particular, build them around the edges of your
colony so you can build outwards quickly.

3) Put Income Tax straight up to 20% at the start of the game and
lower it a few percent at a time while you build up your money.
When you're rich, reduce your tax to 0% to make your people really
happy!

4) To get a large radar coverage, construct flux pods in all
directions, building each pod about 10 spaces out from the last.
Then build a radar next to each flux pod, your radar should now
cover most of the map!

5) Build tank construction yards around the perimeter of your
colony, so your tanks are ready for battle whichever direction
the enemy chooses to attack from.

6) Invest in scientific research early by building labs and
recruiting scientists. Make sure you maintain adequate research
grants. Obtaining inventions does take time so don't waste it.

7) When the space around the tank yard is full of tanks, move some
of the tanks to more vulnerable parts of the colony.

8) If possible, avoid building power stations because they
severely affect the quality of life rating by producing hazardous
waste. Instead, build loads and loads of solar panels. You have
to build lots of flux pods too, to store power during solar
eclipses.

Another advantage in doing this is that if a solar panel is
destroyed by an enemy, you only lose 2MW of power, rather than
50MW if your power station is hit.

9) If you're short of money, build lots of workshops and stores,
and regularly sell Tech Goods you produce. The same can be done
with chemical plants and fuel tanks.

10) Maintain roads at least two spaces wide throughout your colony
so tanks can move about without restriction.

11) At the start of the game build a hospital and increase the
birth rate to high so that your population increases quickly. Once
you are happy with the population size, reduce the birth rate to
medium or else you will be forever building new living quarters
etc.

12) When putting money into research grants, it's best to increase
the Military and Civilian grants by the same amounts.

13) Use markers to show the position of ore on the map screen, it
will then be easy to see where to build a mine on the 3D screen.

14) Once you are at war with an enemy, build one or more command
centres. If your only command centre is destroyed in battle, you
are severely hampered because hardly anything works!

15) If you have a power shortage while under attack, build missile
launchers instead of laser turrets, which use up a lot of power.

16) With a higher population, several hospitals have a greater
affect on the quality of life than just one.

17) When sending tanks and spaceships to attack an enemy city,
send larger groups rather than one or two at a time. Ideally,
amass tanks and ships at the edge of the screen and send them all
off together.

18) Once you have the land mine invention, drop mines right in
front of enemy vehicles as they approach.

19) Learn the directions the enemy attacks from and put extra
defences in those directions.

20) Where terrain permits seal off valleys with a row of laser
turrets or land mines so the enemy vehicles can't pass.