Hi,

I'll be exiting the newbie protection soon on reloaded of 25k points, and was wondering how long I should wait to get a moon to avoid fleet destruction.

The cost of 70 battleships for the 25% chance is 3,500,000 metal and 700,000 crystal, which seems expensive right now since I haven't developed all colony slots yet, and the defences needed to kill that.

Other questions:

1. How are the moonshots usually arranged? Is there an in-game means of communication? Do I transfer the resources to the attacker and harvest the DF?
2. Is there the same 24 hr countdown when abandoning moons as with planets before you can try again?
3. How big should the moon be to be reasonably safe from destruction? Just saw a recent fleetcrash where the moon being used got destroyed here on forums.
4. Is the moon's size random, and how difficult is it to obtain one that is "big enough".
5. Do you usually build defences on moons?