OGame: The Next Generation

[Vlad Antlerkov]

Originally posted by Hueij

Don't worry, the stuff will stay ther.

Okay, cool.

[Skanky Burns]

Yes, deploying is a good way to transfer items to another colony of yours. Only the colonisation bug eats resources.

[Atragon]

All right, up another colony (in Galaxy 5 this time)... and hopefully this time Droth won't attack me (1K metal, 300 crystal, and something less than 10 deut as of this writing... and no fleet in orbit)

[Sparrowhawk]

Welcome Hercules.

Here is your home system, Skanky is almost right next door to you (good to have one of our most powerful alliance members as your neighbour, even though he is probably too powerful to do anything to someone bothering you ).

Looks like you already have an inactive in your system. By the way, I am posting your Galaxy as it will cost you 10 deuterium every time you want to do so, which at your stage is a lot ...so try and stay away from clicking the "Galaxy" option ).

[Skanky Burns]

Resources on Melga 1 [2:70:12] at 11-10 06:18:43
Metal: 37998 Crystal: 6138
Deuterium: 807 Energy: 424

No defences or fleet. Seems like a very nice cow indeed.

[Sparrowhawk]

Originally posted by Hueij
In the meantime I 'm going to be attacked in 17 minutes by 1 light fighter from 4:449:9. He's from another alliance. I would have attacked him back (he's quite juicy) but I need my ships to get my stuff off my planet before the big one hits

His alliance is the JO or Jedi Order. I read through all the threads before I joined and wasn't there something a while back with one of them attacking? Perhaps it was him and he has a long memory?? (Though not a good sense of strategy it seems)

Looks like they are higher ranked than us with more members, but not a huge threat perhaps?

/me

[DRoseDARs]

Well, it seems Angel of Death ( ) wisened up sent sent 2 small freighters... undefended this time.

Destroyed

The attacker has won the battle!
He captures
78 Metal, 39 Crystal and 0 Deuterium


The attacker has lost a total of 0 Units.
The defender has lost a total of 0 Units.
At these space coordinates now float 0 Metal and 0 Crystal.

This time, I had 2 small freighters of my own hauling everything I had away to Homeworld for safe keeping; also, I shut down all production on B, so he got diddly-squat for his efforts. What a maroon.

[Skanky Burns]

One missile launcher...

Get yourself a shipyard there and get it a token defence. Why bother fleetsaving the resources produced when you can just shoot him down with no effort?

[DRoseDARs]

Because I enjoy watching the "Angel of Death" reaping a whole assload of nothing again and again.

Actually, I'm going to be developing gauss canons before too long. I'll wait till I have Recyclers before building any defences for my colonies. Currently just the one, but I hope to add a second before I go to bed.

[germanos]

frustrated I could calculate my travel-times, I fixed the formula's given on the Ogame forum. (at least the ones I found didn't work )

These formula's predict the right traveltimes:

interplanetary travel =10+(350*sqrt((1000000 + dPlanet * 5000) / (baseSpeed * engineFactor)))
interstellar travel =10+(350*sqrt((2700000 + dSystem * 95000) / baseSpeed * engineFactor))
intergalactic travel =10+(350*sqrt((20000000 * dGalaxy) / baseSpeed * engineFactor))

all results in seconds.

glossary:
dPlanet etc: distance between objects
BaseSpeed: varies per shiptype (see shipyard)
enginefactor:
for ships with combustion engines :1+( level *0.1) ((SC if Impulse<5), LC, recycler,LF, probes)
for ships with impulse engines: 1+(level*0.2) ((SC if Impulse >=5), HF, Cruiser, colonizer, bomber)
for ships with Hyper engines: 1+(level*0.3) (Battleship, Destroyer, DeathStar (bomber if Hyperengine>=8))

While searching for correct formula's with google, I stumbled upon a few threads like ours on other boards

Typing Ogame with Apolyton in google didn't make me very happy though

[Sparrowhawk]

I find some of the logic kinda funny to this game.

Most of my time is spent transporting my stockpiled resources back and forth between my home world and one of my colonies (or more likely from my Colonies to my home world).

What I find funny is that my homeworld is reasonably well defended, my cargo's I send out without an escort.

It seems strange to me that my resources are safer flying through space on cargo ships then they are sitting docile on my defended planet

One of the quirks of the game I guess.
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On another topic:
My research lab is currently at level 8 and I am tempted to upgrade it to 9 (though I really want 10 to allow for IRN at some later date) just to speed up my research (so that I don't have to do as much of the above mentioned resource management while waiting for my research to complete).

Does anyone have 9 or higher research lab and did it have much effect on your research times? As someone ?Spaced? stated a while back, the law of diminishing returns is in place for research labs, shipyards and robotic factories as the time factor doesn't decrease much on one level of upgrade to any of the 3.

/me

[Skanky Burns]

For day-long research it saves you 30 minutes to half an hour. Its also needed for IRN too though, so if you have nothing better to do with the resources why not?

[C0ckney]

bugger, i'm being raided atm by 80 battleships, and only 80 battleships, however i can fleet save of course, but i can kiss my defence goodbye.

i want to know if missles get destroyed when your planet gets raided? also how many anti-balistic missles does it take to bring 1 anti-planet missle?

[Sparrowhawk]

Not sure if InterPlanetaryMissiles survive an attack, but it seems clear the Anti-ballistic Missiles will survive.

Also, from this in the "Technology" section, it seems that one ABM destroys one IPM.

/me

[C0ckney]

hmmm actually just speed simed it, turns out it's a very bloody draw, i get a 15% moon chance, but lose over 2million res, he loses a shade under 3.5 million res. my recycler crews are in for a long night!

i'm not sure whether to use my missles now (i have 10, he has 10 anti-balistic) or wait for a little bit.

by the time all this is over, he's not going to be that hard a target, so feel free to hit 4:432:9