3) Watch your upkeep. In solo, it's a good idea to go to into high upkeep and win due to the number of units. Be very careful in FFA's with high upkeep. While going to 100 units and killing all the other players tends to work on the low end of the FFA ladder, it doesn't
work vs. good FFA players. If you stay in high upkeep you will run out of gold. FFA games can last an hour or longer, and you need to plan on having resources for the length of the game. Usually if a player stays in high upkeep and if they lose their army and expansion
they will not come back from the game. Spending time at 80 food + multiple expansions will give you more gold, which will give you more options during those times where you get attacked by multiple players at the same time (it happens to us all, so its just a matter of being ready for it). Go to 100 food when you need to, but the second you find yourself just standing around, kill off your own units and drop to 80. You can stay at 100 food in an FFA game with 3 or more expansions. This can be bad, because any player who scouts will see all these expansions and see you as a threat even though you don't have the gold of 3 expansions. Not only that but it takes 15 food to gather from 3 mines, and the only difference between low and high upkeep is 20 units. So if you have to spend 10 extra units to mine. This leaves
with 10 extra food which isn't all that much. 4) Always have a TP scroll handy; buy a few of them. This allows you to react easier. If you get attacked by player 3 player while you are attacking player 2 a TP scroll can help you fight both armies. TP scrolls will allow you to port around a large map and defend if you need to. 5) Put a few towers at your expansions / main. Building towers tends to be associated with new player who ONLY build towers. This doesn't mean towers are bad, just learn where they can help. In Solo it's better to have map control which means you should spend money on units instead of static base defenses. Towers will do two things for you in FFA games, first they will buy you a some time. Time helps in cases where you have to fight multiple players at once, or when you need to fight a 100 food army when you
only have an 80 food army. Second, towers kind of work as a "stay away from here, private property" sign. Most FFA players (at least not the top players), will go find another target after seeing your towers and they will leave your expansion alone. Most players don't want to deal with the hassle of
making siege, so they run off and find another player to attack. If players are killing each other instead of you, you will win more games. Don't rely on towers to win you the game. They just give a few more seconds when you need it. Scouting AND towers work best for buying you time.
