I wonder how many of the top ranked guys ubuy zorg rubies. Do you need em to stay in the top, or do they just help?

I'm sure they help some people quite a lot. Personally I don't have any nor have never purchased them. It's not because I don't want to. It's simply that in order to support questions by every user I need to be playing at the lowest common denominator.

i bought them 2 times after i already made it in the top 10 mainly to support the game. i like this game and zorg rubies will help it last longer not to mention that there are some neat things that you can do with the rubies

Which reminds me... maybe there should be a paypal support method as well.

yeah you can do it through paypal. if you dont want to use the rubies you can just buy them and not use them. I mainly blow rubies on instant builds

Good point.

Taking the chance here, to mention that if you have 10 or less rubies, this little banner will show in overview screen:

I do not like the banner because it gets in the way all the time and reminds me how poor I am.

I personaly use zorg rubies But for me it is more cost efficest to use them to 25% all mine production. for 30.00 american you can have all your resources +25% for 6 months or more. When i first started they were very usefull when starting all the 21 planets. I used them for multi que and when you have great resources shiped in you can make some real progress to get into the game. Just a free tip on the rubies. And Sad.. I used to use em for instant build but that gets expensive...

i only used the instant build on the jump gates with a bunch pf phalanx buildings all queued up at once