Welcome to Innovation!
Here are my steps to becoming a better Innovation player:
Step 1: Avoid making dumb mistakes. For example:
- If you have a move you can make that wins you the game immediately, make that move.
- If you only have one move that prevents your opponent from winning on his next turn, make that move.
- Don't activate a demand-only dogma if your opponents are immune to it.
- Don't do a draw or a meld action if you have a dogma effect that can do more, and your opponents can't share in it. For example, if you have Domestication, and you want to meld your lowest card, use Domestication to do it (unless opponents would share in it). Don't just meld your card, and give up a free draw.
Basically, just be careful, and don't do things that are obviously dumb.
Step 2... actually, I don't know what Step 2 is. I've played over 400 games, and I'm still on Step 1.