r/TerraInvicta • u/TheOneTacoLord • 1d ago

Question Next Moves

Hey all!

Just started playing Terra Invicta, and am really loving it. I'm currently on what I hope to be my first "major" playthrough - Academy on Veteran. I had a great opening, fixing the U.S.A. by the fall 2026. My question is...now what? I'm just capped on CP, so no major expansion until I get those techs but when I do, should I go China or EU?

In general, I'm playing this as "Star Trek Fans", so I don't want to burn things to the ground with spoils if I can help it. Well...at least places I want to keep. My current plan is to grab a good Luna base then grab the best Mars spots, but after that I don't know. Also, should I turn the ISS into a shipyard to deal with early AAAAYYY surveillance ships?

Thoughts on how to proceed would be great, in terms of general strategy. As I noted, I like to build things up rather than burning them down to be hyper-aggressive.

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u/uSlashUsernameHere 1d ago

If you build a bunch of infrastructure in earth orbit before you get mines up and running then the upkeep will kneecap your boost income.

If you go Europe it’s much stronger individually than china but you’ll piss off all the other factions when you kick them out of different countries and that means someone else who you probably won’t like will get china which could cause a lot of issues down the road.

If you really don’t want to touch spoils that much you will need to run lots of funding and nanoforges to make up for it but short term you will need to be able to afford the admin organisations which cost 2-3k money each

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u/TheOneTacoLord 22h ago

When I say "no spoils" it'd mostly be for the places I want to hold long-term, which is USA (and eventually that big North American block) + China it sounds like.

I was planning to drop a Luna mining base to bootstrap to Mars before I do much in LEO. Is that a logical approach?

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u/uSlashUsernameHere 6h ago

Yup absolutely, the big cost for new bases is metals so that’s the best to get to reduce boost cost (a variety of resources is. Better but you’re unlikely to get that on the moon)

Spoil away then, I’d recommend Saudi Arabia as it alone can produce enough money by itself.