Ogame - thread3.

[Sparrowhawk]

Originally posted by duke o' york
Yeah, this is a more basic version of fleet-saving, but with the danger that you can't really do it overnight, because whatever you were building will be completed by the time you returned to the game.

Not sure where your tech is at duke, but I have 2 techs that will take 6 and 9 hours respectively to research (and as far as I am concerned I am still early in the game). I think I recall reading that Spaced completed something recently that took 24 hours +. Seems that finding a tech that will take longer then the time I am away won't be a problem right away. Especially since I can't seem to leave this game for more then 6 consequtive hours anyway .

/me

[duke o' york]

Longest tech would be Impulse 5, at 10h 40 mins. That's with a level 8 research lab.

[Sparrowhawk]

Okay, my research lab is only 6, but Impulse 4 and Armour 7 will both take me 6+. I suspect that as I continue upgrading the times will increase substancially (though you are right, I need to keep upgrading my research lab too in order to keep it reasonable).

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by Hueij

In the Galaxy screen you sometimes see a T next to the planet's number. If you hover over it with your cursor it will show you how many resources it contains. If it is a lot, just send enough Recyclers on a harvesting mission. Beware, they are slow, so chances are someone is going to beat you to it.

Major thanks. I was wondering what the T meant.

[duke o' york]

Spaced, that planet has been splatted!
I lost a small fighter, but that's my stupid fault for taking 2 along unnecessarily. I didn't get a load out of it, but hopefully he'll think twice before attacking 'poly in future!
And it was fun!

[germanos]

Originally posted by Sparrowhawk
I would like to hear Skanky and Germanos (and others) opinions on debris fields. You both were attacked and your defenses destroyed yet you are both online regularly and presumably didn't have too much stockpiled.

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The debris Fields ONLY emerge from fleets: either the attacking fleet and/or an orbiting Home-fleet. I have yet to see a debris field emerging from planet based defenses only. (this all makes sense)

I was attacked when I had 75k Deut sitting on the planet, so I guess that was why I was hit. I shipped of 90% of it though, shortly before the attack, and it was back 2 minutes after the battleships had left


So yes, it would make sense to attack a bunch of cargo's, recyclers and probes to clean up the leftovers, but to gain from planet based defenses, it's pointless.

[Skanky Burns]

I had an excessive stockpile before. The person who hit me spied me twice, presumably because the first one couldn't see through my espionage cloak. I think I was just the biggest "easy" target around. I didn't even scratch one of his battleships.

[duke o' york]

Originally posted by duke o' york
Spaced, that planet has been splatted!

germanos, that's the point of being in an alliance!
Admittedly, our strongest fleet (Skanky) has been splatted, but against all but the strongest, then we can still strike back.

[Skanky Burns]

I'm building up again. I even have a cruiser now.

[duke o' york]

I've discovered two wonderful, undefended, cows. All is not as bleak as it once seemed.

[Odin]

I am milking the 2 systems in 3.477 Germanos pointed out and onther inactive (#8) in that same system, and I found a nearby cow at 3:296:12.

Edit: wrong location data

[duke o' york]

Need any more deut? Oh, sorry, I've just remembered that all my cargoes are out raiding. Sorry.

[Odin]

Originally posted by duke o' york
Need any more deut? Oh, sorry, I've just remembered that all my cargoes are out raiding. Sorry.

Have plently right now (~20,000).

[duke o' york]

Spaced, the bloke you asked me to attack now has 2 missile launchers and 14 small lasers. I didn't destroy them all.

But only 7734, 9422, 805.

[Spaced Cowboy]

Originally posted by duke o' york
Spaced, fleet arrives in 3h 50 mins. Speedsim gives me 100% victory.

Sweet, thanks, my stupid move earlier against another player lost me a bunch o' cruisers. Now I can hit him myself.