Apolyon vs the Universe! - Part 8

[Snotty]

5000 Metal, 5000 Crystal and 5000 Deuterium
At these space coordinates now float 66600 Metal and 44400 Crystal
51456 Metal, 48932 Crystal and 5566 Deuterium
25859 Metal, 24570 Crystal and 2789 Deuterium

Merry christmas now Im off to raid his other planets

[Kataphraktoi]

Hello I'm Skanky Burns' brother. His BROTHER. And I'm, like, twice as smart and three times as pretty.

Someone fire up the ol'e Smurf-o-wacker We have an infestion coming on i fear although i suppose it wouldnt be too hard to fill those stats

[joncha]

[Sparrowhawk]

Originally posted by Hueij
Found this message in the alliance screen:

Application of the sleeper
Hello I'm Skanky Burns' brother. His BROTHER. And I'm, like, twice as smart and three times as pretty.

Skanky, do you really have a brother? And if so, should we let him in?

I think we should wait for Skanky to return from vacation mode before we reply to this rather dubious claim (so he can confirm or deny it personally).

/me

[Spaced Cowboy]

I can ask him if he knows Skanky's real name.

[Hueij]

Originally posted by Spaced Cowboy
I can ask him if he knows Skanky's real name.

Nah, let's wait for Skanky

[Skanky Burns]

Yes, I really do have a brother. Yes, he really is ten times as smelly as me.

I got an SMS from him, so it be genuine. That also brings our alliance up to 28.

[Hueij]

Okay, did you let him in or should I do it?

[Hueij]

Well, since this is what I am playing this game for these last weeks, I'm going to post this here as well as on Eventis...

My attack on Omada E...

The following fleets are facing each other at 12-25 01:48:42 , as it came to a battle::

Attacker Hueij (4:458:8)
Weapons: 100% Shields: 90% Hull Plating: 90%
Type L.Cargo Cruiser B.Ship
Number 8 20 60
Weaponry: 10 800 2000
Shields 47.5 95 380
Hull 2280 5130 11400

Defender Omada E (4:458:10)
Weapons: 100% Shields: 100% Hull Plating: 100%
Type Sol. Sat Miss. H.Laser Gauss
Number 61 48 19 1
Weaponry: 2 160 500 2200
Shields 2 40 200 400
Hull 400 400 1600 7000

The attacking fleet fires a total of 192 times with the power of 263330 upon the defender. The defender's shields absorb 5018 damage points
The defending fleet fires a total of 129 times with the power of 19502 upon the attacker. The attacker's shields absorb 10270 damage points

*snip

Attacker Hueij (4:458:8)
Type L.Cargo Cruiser B.Ship
Number 8 20 60
Weaponry: 10 800 2000
Shields 47.5 95 380
Hull 2280 5130 11400

Defender Omada E (4:458:10)
Destroyed

The attacker has won the battle!
He captures
113221 Metal, 34244 Crystal and 5221 Deuterium


The attacker has lost a total of 0 Units.
The defender has lost a total of 405000 Units.
At these space coordinates now float 0 Metal and 36600 Crystal.

The following fleets are facing each other at 12-25 01:49:29 , as it came to a battle::

Attacker Hueij (4:458:8)
Weapons: 100% Shields: 90% Hull Plating: 90%
Type L.Cargo Cruiser B.Ship
Number 6 6 40
Weaponry: 10 800 2000
Shields 47.5 95 380
Hull 2280 5130 11400

Defender Omada E (4:458:10)
Weapons: 100% Shields: 100% Hull Plating: 100%
Type Miss. H.Laser Gauss
Number 36 14 1
Weaponry: 160 500 2200
Shields 40 200 400
Hull 400 1600 7000

The attacking fleet fires a total of 69 times with the power of 98460 upon the defender. The defender's shields absorb 3410 damage points
The defending fleet fires a total of 51 times with the power of 14960 upon the attacker. The attacker's shields absorb 8184 damage points

*snip

Attacker Hueij (4:458:8)
Type L.Cargo Cruiser B.Ship
Number 6 6 40
Weaponry: 10 800 2000
Shields 47.5 95 380
Hull 2280 5130 11400

Defender Omada E (4:458:10)
Destroyed

The attacker has won the battle!
He captures
56640 Metal, 17133 Crystal and 2616 Deuterium


The attacker has lost a total of 0 Units.
The defender has lost a total of 219000 Units.
At these space coordinates now float 0 Metal and 0 Crystal.

The following fleets are facing each other at 12-25 01:55:33 , as it came to a battle::

Attacker Hueij (4:458:8)
Weapons: 100% Shields: 90% Hull Plating: 90%
Type B.Ship
Number 30
Weaponry: 2000
Shields 380
Hull 11400

Defender Omada E (4:458:10)
Weapons: 100% Shields: 100% Hull Plating: 100%
Type Miss. H.Laser
Number 26 9
Weaponry: 160 500
Shields 40 200
Hull 400 1600

The attacking fleet fires a total of 30 times with the power of 60000 upon the defender. The defender's shields absorb 1840 damage points
The defending fleet fires a total of 35 times with the power of 8660 upon the attacker. The attacker's shields absorb 6740 damage points

*snip

The attacking fleet fires a total of 30 times with the power of 60000 upon the defender. The defender's shields absorb 80 damage points
The defending fleet fires a total of 2 times with the power of 320 upon the attacker. The attacker's shields absorb 320 damage points

Attacker Hueij (4:458:8)
Type B.Ship
Number 30
Weaponry: 2000
Shields 380
Hull 11400

Defender Omada E (4:458:10)
Destroyed

The attacker has won the battle!
He captures
24995 Metal, 8655 Crystal and 1353 Deuterium


The attacker has lost a total of 0 Units.
The defender has lost a total of 124000 Units.
At these space coordinates now float 0 Metal and 0 Crystal.

I had to use 5 IPM's to take out his one ABM and defences. Too bad my recyclers needed three hours to get at the scene so I let that go.

Ah, revenge...

And since he doesn't look that invincible he is going to hear a lot more of me...

[Skanky Burns]

Playing again for a little while. I almost forgot to get my production started again. Heh.

[Skanky Burns]

I got attacked by Gray Warrior yesterday, only some spare shipping I had raiding while I was out got destroyed but it is time for revenge. 7 planets of his hit so far...

[Hercules]

yeah I entered the rankings today, just before years end.

I am in at 1465.

[Sparrowhawk]

Are you a dove or a hawk?

Spaced asked a question a while ago, something like "is your only goal to catch me in the points standings?" and while he meant it in jest, I replied something like "nope, my goal is for the alliance to get stronger, and if a little friendly competition helps us do that then ". At the time I though about my goals and decided I wanted to be top 100 in each of score/fleet/research. I also want the alliance to be #1 in each of these.

Having played this game for 2 months plus, I have risen to the top 10% in score now, ranked 685 out of 7299 players.

I have done so by staying away from attacking active players as whenever I have attacked an active more often then not it has been a failed attack. Attacking inactives seems to be a safer, more productive and lower risk option and I don't know when or why I would switch to attacking actives as long as my current strat gets me closer to the goals above.

My fleet has me in the top 500 which is laughable as I do not have an offensive fleet and my research is now in the top 100 but I don't expect to stay there as I have stopped research temporarily as every new meaningful research now costs me 1 million plus in resources.

How about you? Do you get bored by playing it safe and building? Are you building towards the day you can attack actives or are you already attacking actives, knowing that is the goal of the game, and the ultimate purpose?

/me

[Hercules]

It 's a good question.

I have have been attacking inactives and building infrastructure.

I want also to protect our lower ranked members as Skanky and others protected me. The message being attack any of us and a savage revenge will happen.

However I guess there will come a time when attacking actives is more profitable.

I thought we could set up some sort of hit list: partly based on attacking declining actives or ranked inactives.

Our average per member (18K points) is still low by my reckoning for me to be mounting assaults on individual planets with alliance averages well above this.

[Hercules]

Also remember, when a BoF member attacked me, Skanky and BinT attacked them and that taught them a lesson.

So the lesson we learn from that episode is let's be careful who we attack (and note who are their allies?).

So if we plan to get revenge on some player, just check.