Let's think people!!!

bando wrote:personally i will be a defensive turtle. but that might change depending on how this uni goes,

Kiwis wrote:How is your current defense Warick?

I just got 22 RL, 10 SL and 1 HL up to now with weapon 6 / amour 6.

I prefer to be a raider ... not a miner thou ...


LF is not a bad choice Warick, 3 LF can take out 1 BS for sure ... heaps of LF can be a good defense ...

Kiwis wrote:The amour of ion cannon is pretty good, a good shield for gauss cannon and plasma to keep surviving in a tough time ) ...

Be careful at interplanetary missles, mate !!!

Basic strategy:

1) Build mines, build mines, build mines. While tech is great, the faster you can build up your mines, the faster you'll get your income up.

2) Build colonies! The more planets you have, the more mines you'll have. Unless you're trying for Gravitron or building a Deut farm, avoid planets 1-3 and 10-15 if you can. You want colonies that are 150 fields or larger. Planets smaller than this are not much help long term. My only exception to this is in the very early stages of the game. If I'm given a small planet as my first or second colony, I'll develop it up to about metal 15, crystal 14, and deut 11. I'll then ship any resources it produces to my main planet to make more colony ships. Once I reach my 8 colony max, I'll delete the smaller planets and use those 1 or 2 colony slots to make raiding planets in distant systems.

3) Fleetsave!!! This should be number 1 as it's the most important aspect of the game. If you're trying to save up resources, don't leave them on your planet. Put them in cargo ships and send them on a 10% speed transport mission to another colony. If you don't have a colony, you can send them to a fellow alliance member, but remember to cancel the mission before the fleet arrives. You can also send them on an attack mission to an inactive player's planet, but this can be risky because there is the possibility that they will come back online.

4) Get a moon. Once you have your max number of planets and have your mines at a good level, it's time to try a moonshot. The cheapest moonshot is 1667 light fighters. When destroyed they give a 20% chance. It took me 8 tries. A moon is important because you cannot be phalanxed and can start building up a fleet without fear of a fleet crash.

5) Research. Once you have a moon, you can start researching higher techs like plasma turrets and battlecruisers. Earlier in the game, those resources are better spent elsewhere.

Getting a moon can prove to be a pain in the behind. My mate in uni 27 has hadd 16 moon shots and still has no moon.

He has been at it for a very long time and I don't have a moon in that uni either. However I have plasma's. Thank goodness I have plasma!!! If it weren't for them I wouldn't have been able to destory anything when I got raided but some barstard who phalanxed my fleet. The plasmas were the only things that ensured he lost fleet units.

I think Research is important early on, sure maybe not getting to plamsa's for a while but battlecruisers I got to them pretty easy. It was probably a week later that I got plasma, so yeah don't worry about it for a while.

BS are great at any rate.

a/w/s is something that needs attention, I've had mine at 7/7/7 for a damn long time....

I'm not sure if I'm a fleeter but don't spend all my res on fleets, nothing near that amount.

As for colony ships well maybe it's time I pumped out another one, my besty colony planet is 119 fields, very pathetic compaired to the 266 I have in uni 27

Kiwis wrote:Just a tool to find out how many planets you got and where they are !!!