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Some Random Tips and Tricks

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 7:18 pm
by decadence
-Try to navigate around using only your moons. It will prevent * (activity indicators) from showing up on your planets.

-Building something on a moon then canceling it when you need some deut or when it almost finishes is good way of hiding fuel consumption when staging up ninjas.

-Espionage ships have cargo space. :whistle:

-Sometimes the best place to raid is around your planet that hasn't been probed the longest. Most raiders scan every planet they pass through and take most of the profit. If you have not been probed there recently, then it is possible that nobody has sweeped there recently.


Mind suddenly became blank... Will think of something else to add later.
Any other tips you can think of?

Re: Some Random Tips and Tricks

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 7:30 pm
by Shandris
Phalanx as often as you probe, you would be surprised what you find...

if there is no profit around you, cross galaxy raiding (eg from 3 to 4) is often very efficient, since you can attack the whole of galaxy 4 from any point in galaxy 3 and the travelling distance will stay the same

Re: Some Random Tips and Tricks

Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 12:32 am
by bobw63
MIcro-fleet saving -

You've learned to fleet save when your not playing - great. Now it's time to learn to fleet save while your playing. Never leave your fleet on a moon while your looking for targets or busy with other fleets. Fleet save all ships your not using at the moment to the planet whose moon they're on. If a rip is involved, adjusting speed can give you a few minutes to an hour of round trip time hidden from a predator's eyes. Such a short distance trip costs almost nothing in deut. I often keep my ships in 5-10 minute fleet saves until I find something to hit. This small time frame also keeps them available for opportunity strikes and time to recover and send elsewhere in the event someone attempts to destroy your moon.

If they see your fleet, they will come ...

Re: Some Random Tips and Tricks

Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 12:48 am
by IKICKAYOUWASSNOW
FS res in random expensive buildings and techs that will not finish before you get back. Even if you are crashed, that is safe.

Re: Some Random Tips and Tricks

Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 9:37 am
by Avatar
="neoshagrath-Building something on a moon then canceling it when you need some deut or when it almost finishes is good way of hiding fuel consumption when staging up ninjas.
I so wish we could get an Exploit label on this already. Come on Admins, this can't be how you designed the game, else it would be available for all players with all browsers and not just the sub-standard back room BJ Linux type ghetto browsers.

Re: Some Random Tips and Tricks

Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 3:10 pm
by KarrothMelu
I don't see how this is for only certain browser types. Anyone can build and then cancel a building.

Re: Some Random Tips and Tricks

Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 3:20 pm
by Avatar
Sorry about that guys, I was thinking of the ship / def queues!

Re: Some Random Tips and Tricks

Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 6:45 pm
by snave0110
Try to hunt on the weekend, you will be surprise what you find. There must be someone comeback very late from party or still hangover and leave the fleet unguard.

Re: Some Random Tips and Tricks

Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 7:36 pm
by IKICKAYOUWASSNOW
Probe raids take 15s or so. With 50k + probes you can make res very fast provided there is no def.

Re: Some Random Tips and Tricks

Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 3:37 pm
by KnightofNi
IKICKAYOUWASSNOW wrote:Probe raids take 15s or so. With 50k + probes you can make res very fast provided there is no def.
Lolwut

Whenever I send probes anywhere it doesn't say there is any cargo space :S