OGame: The Jedi Decision

[binTravkin]

I know it's the best way Cyclotron, but I will be offline for next 72hours starting from 17:00 GMT+2 and I don't want to halt everything as per vacation mode.
I'd rather risk having huge resources (for early game as mine) by stockpiling them while offline.

For that I am maxing out my espionage (L5) and defenses and hoping that the guy who succesfully probes me will be weak enough to not attack (I still have some noob protection as my score per next refresh will be a bit more than 500k).
And if he still decides to attack, Im better off making some loss to him, whereas small lasers are at least double as cost effective as light fighters (not mentioning the 70% rebuild chance).

Thus if one wants to attack me, he will need at least double the score (and a signficant amount of fleet) to have a good chance.
Thus I've effectively reduced my potential raiders to interval [2*myscore; 3*myscore] (from [myscore/3; 3*myscore]), which is a significant reduction in numbers.

And now answer my question.

[Cyclotron]

Answer your... oh, we crossposted or something.

You can stack things - order up a cruiser, then another cruiser, then a heavy laser, and so on (I think defense goes in the same stack as ships...). However, it is worth noting that once you order something, you can't take it off the list - you've got to wait until you have the resources for it and it finishes construction. Thus, you generally only want to order a whole list of stuff up when you know you want it and can readily pay for it.

[binTravkin]

*snip*you've got to wait until you have the resources for it and it finishes construction.

Means I can order stuff which I don't yet have resources for??

[duke o' york]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns

In both the overview and fleet screens, you can hover the mouse over each fleet and see how many and what type of ships are in that fleet.

Yeah, but that only works if there are less than 5 types of ship. Otherwise, you don't get to see anything past cruiser, and I was unable to tell whether I'd sent them out, until they returned, intact, with the rest of the ships.
I'm getting lazy though - I only seem to attack overnight, rather than during the day too.

to the guy with the phalanx, but 7 seconds isn't very impressive. He should at least have it down to 5 or less.

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by binTravkin
Means I can order stuff which I don't yet have resources for??

Nope, you have to have the resources for it now to add it in the queue. The good thing about this is if someone is attacking you and you can't fleetsave, you can order a whole bunch of stuff at the shipyard and use up your resources that way.

[duke o' york]

How far from home are phalanxes effective?

[Skanky Burns]

Scan area of the sensor phalanx:
(phalanx level)² - 1

Which I suppose means that a level 1 phalanx can only scan the system it is in.

[binTravkin]

I think the formula was L^2 - 1, but still it seems very weak..

[binTravkin]

I sent some resources to our newest member (fleetsaving to him, noone else was far enough), if he comes and asks why and what to do, explain, please.

See ya in 3 days!

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Odin
I been attacked by some A-hole named OdinO, and he sent this message:





Heres his fleet at the start of the battle....

Weapons: 50% Shields: 60% Hull Plating: 50% Type S.Cargo L.Cargo L.Fighter H.Fighter Cruiser Recy.
Number 5 1 10 5 7 1
Weaponry: 7.5 7.5 75 225 600 1.5
Shields 16 40 16 40 80 16
Hull 600 1800 600 1500 4050 2400

He lost no ships.


KILL HIM!!!

He isn't noob to me. I'm in the process of upgrading my fleet to kylle him. If everything is well, I should have enough ships to wreak havoc in two days (I'll have the tech for battleships tomorrow morning, as well as a flett of at least 15 cruisers )

There's no way such bastard will be tolerated. I'm building cruisers as we speak

[Spaced Cowboy]

Well I'm build a Phalanx in my uni 3 game. I'll let you know in 24 hours how it works.

[Spiffor]

The problem is that the OdinO bastard belongs to the ITALIA alliance. If I attack him, I'm likely to start an all out war between our two alliances. Do you guys think it is an actual risk, or do you guys think the ITALIA alliance will let the bastard fend for himself?

Edit: oh well, they're at war with 5 other alliances, including fairly strong ones. Worth knowing

[Snotty]

Resources on Kazaam [3:269:6] at 11-17 19:33:43
Metal: 45952 Crystal: 28926
Deuterium: 46597 Energy: 1472
Fleets
Small Cargo Ship 10 Large Cargo Ship 5
Light Fighter 15 Heavy Fighter 10
Cruiser 7 Recycler 1
Espionage Probe 7 Solar Satellite 6
Defence
Missile Launcher 122 Small Laser 30
Heavy Laser 12 Gauss Cannon 2
Ion Cannon 9 Small Shield Dome 1
Large Shield Dome 1 Anti-ballistic Missile 6
Buildings
Metal Mine 14 Crystal Mine 13
Deuterium Synthesizer 9 Solar Plant 14
Fusion Plant 3 Robotic Factory 6
Shipyard 7 Metal Storage 1
Crystal Storage 1 Research Lab 7
Rocket Silo 3
Chance of counterespionage:18%

cant do much with the defenses there

[Spiffor]

Indeed. Same here
However, he does have a crappy infrastructure. We should be able to easily outproduce him.

Odin: if you want to develop a colony that is free of bastards hassling you (the colony might even end up being the center of your empire), I know of a remote solar system where I'm alone. I'd feel less lonely with another Apolytoner around

(I can send you enough resources for a colony ship - just tell me at what time -server time- you're online, so that I'm sure these resources won't get raided)

[germanos]

Originally posted by Spiffor


The problem is that the OdinO bastard belongs to the ITALIA alliance. If I attack him, I'm likely to start an all out war between our two alliances. Do you guys think it is an actual risk, or do you guys think the ITALIA alliance will let the bastard fend for himself?

Edit: oh well, they're at war with 5 other alliances, including fairly strong ones. Worth knowing

I don't think they'll let the guy fend for himself if an alliance is bashing up on him.

Also note that the alliance is 4 times as strong as us.

Odin will have to get used to fleetsaving.


Actually, I can't beleive it's not standard operation with all of us. There have been plenty of examples posted here of people getting raped. Some multiple times.