Ok here it goes...
I would recommend you first find an alliance and match their alliance strategy if you haven't found an alliance refer to the below link
http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=200325
Ok first of all is to Consider what type of set up you want to go.
The majority of players go for Value.
What value is consists of having Refineries and then later on Finance Centre to maximise value.
Some folk will do distorter building (dist whore) build military centres or rush covert ops I would recommend doing these when you have some experience but I'm not here to tell you how to play your own way.
Pick a race...
http://game.planetarion.com/manual.pl?page=races
You will have a start up bonus it consist of
80x The base research
70x The base construction
For example cathaar has 10000 research points and 6300 Construction Units.
There is a Paid Bonus if you Upgrade
http://game.planetarion.com/manual.pl?page=free
You can only pick... The extra resources or the extra Roids.
The Extra Research Points or Construction Units.
If you go for at pt 24 the resources and the research it works out as
Resource Bonus:
10000 + (24x4800) = 125200 of each resource
Research Point Bonus:
4000 + (24 * 24) = 4576 Research Points
I would recommend not using the paid bonus on pt 0 and allow it to mature for as long as possible if it is within your strategy.
Next step is to determine how many roids to init and choices in government and population.
Most folk tend to have 300 roids as a start up to get to 300 this round do the following...
Init 87 of each roid (on mining page)
In a new browser goto
http://pirate.planetarion.com/register.php and sign up a new account for forums.
then go to
http://pirate.planetarion.com/showth...03#post3229303 and post your nick name as you did on registration. It wont come on straight away but will come on after the hour. ie post at 6:30pm on for 7pm etc.
This will give you 5 of each roid.
enable the quests on the overview page
Set government and population
Make an alliance and then leave it before round starts ticking
This will give you 100 of each Roid / 300 in total.
Some folk go 100, 200, 300 or 400+ roids when starting and have certain strategies in mind.