* If you're playing as the Pirates, nutrients and energy are easy to come
  by, so make mineral production a priority at your base locations. If you
  bump up your energy production with Tidal Harnesses, your income will 
  easily rival that of the wealthy Morganites. 

* In alien-vs.-human combat, sling around nerve gas as if it were going out
  of style. Because there are no interspecies atrocities, the discovery of 
  High Energy Chemistry (which enables Nerve Gas Pods) is as significant as
  learning to build Needle Jets with Doctrine: Air Power. 

* Because the Cybernetic Consciousness steal technologies when they conquer
  a base, and because they don't have any significant drawbacks when playing
  a military game, they should be played as aggressively as the Spartans or 
  Believers against their weaker neighbors.