pheaver83

I have 250+ hours, unlocked most achievements, and beaten the game on Easy with every ship variant. On Normal mode, I still win less than 5% of the time. I know I am particularly bad at the game.

I feel ya. This is something that gets on my nerves as well. I rarely plan ahead so I'm often cleaning up my messes after the fact. Usually what ends up happening is that I incrementally build a vertical power spine on the left, right, or both sides of the colony. However, I also really prefer having the transformers in a steam room so I don't have to deal with their heat, which means I often don't build a spine.

One thing though is that I almost always plan for my ATs to use the heavy watt wire. I never use regular (conductive) wire on them, so that I never have to deal with replacing it later.

I think this is being downvoted because people are reading your sentence as saying "get their power from renewable sources instead of getting their power from water", which probably isn't what you meant but it does sound like that when one reads it.

Right!

Yup! I was just exploring Wikipedia about this, as I am originally from Kansas (Wichita), and felt like I should probably be more knowledgeable about it. There are barely 3500 Kaw people left.

I remember growing up that we learned a lot about the Native tribes in our area. I didn't retain as much as I could have. I know far less about the Oregon area.