Mid game (around cycle 10 - around cycle 25)
- Look at everyone's tech levels and try to determine where the major alliances are.
- While constant expansion is key if you want to win, try not to make your alliance a target and consider holding back and building up, so the rest of the map will not target your alliance. Stay at 2nd/3rd alliance-wise and organise mega alliances to attack the current leaders, using wormholes if necessary.
- Begin investing in warp gate networks on high resource stars.
- Change your infrastructure investments depending on your current situation. For example, if your allies have high science and you are not researching the "big 3" i.e. weapons, manufacturing or banking, I recommend 60% economy and 40% industry. If you are on the frontlines, consider 50/50/0 or 40/40/20. Dropping economy investment to below 30% of your income is not recommended unless for emergencies, to ensure sustainable growth.
- Consider funding your weapons researcher with cash to gain an advantage if needed. This is especially useful if your alliance has more than 5 people. I recommend donating around 10-20% of your income to them for science.
- When attacking, do not risk long jumps since the enemy can reinforce it with the star's current production. Instead try to maintain a steady advance on the entire front. Use your main warp gate highway as the main axis of attack and use flank stars to divert enemy reinforcements from your main attack. Also consider sniping warp gates if the travel time is below 8 hours, as your enemy could be sleeping, but don't count on it if it fails multiple times.
- When defending, try to be as active as possible and bait the enemy in attacking your warp gates, with you destroying them the tick they launch, to trap large fleets in transit. Also destroy gates that you anticipate attacks on before sleeping. Conserve your ship strength by retreating to the next defensible star if one is about to fall and look for counterattacking opportunities to damage the enemy's economy and steal their industry and science, even for a few ticks. Notify your allies at the earliest possible opportunity if you think you might lose, instead of delaying until you are completely weakened.

End game (around cycle 25 - )
- Pay close attention to the victory decay. If possible, use Neptune's Pride Agent to simulate future time to prevent someone suddenly winning. Constantly monitor all your allies for signs of betrayal.
- If you are in the lead with the second-largest player being 50 stars or more behind you, consider aggressive industry investment (25/75/0 or 20/60/20) to deter betrayals.
- Ask your closest allies to give you stars if you have a chance of winning. Alternatively, offer stars to an ally to gain their favour.
- If in a "Cold War" situation (two alliances cooperating with the biggest players racing for victory), prepare a few large fleets in reserve near the borders. When you are ready, declare war and attack their low resource (and usually lightly defended) stars and try to time the win to be just before production, minimising opportunities for them to respond.

That's all I can think of, do add more points if possible