
They managed to get all the uncolonised asteroid and planet systems. The problem is that by this time the NPC's are already well into their expansion phase. With the Miners I built up enough to buy a Dock Builder (Helios) with a little left over to spare for stations. Aftrer watching a LP on YTube I tried a start using miners instead. I initially tried my normal X3:AP start which is to build traders and keep rolling income back into more traders which I spread across the populated systems.
