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| + | Raiding allows your ship to steal unspent mineral or artifact resources from an enemy ship. You cannot raid a ship unless it is first disabled. Successfully raiding higher ranked ships will yield better results. | ||
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| + | Raiding is a crew to crew battle. Ship modules will have no effect when determining if a raid is successful. All crewmembers will be involved in a raid. This includes your (and your enemies) tactical officers, helmsmen, engineers, and even scientists! | ||
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What is Raiding ?
Raiding allows your ship to steal unspent mineral or artifact resources from an enemy ship. You cannot raid a ship unless it is first disabled. Successfully raiding higher ranked ships will yield better results.
Raiding is a crew to crew battle. Ship modules will have no effect when determining if a raid is successful. All crewmembers will be involved in a raid. This includes your (and your enemies) tactical officers, helmsmen, engineers, and even scientists!
Why Raids ?
We all know selling minerals makes money and finding artifacts helps us in numerous ways. Some like to perform a process of stealing points using crew members (a.k.a. raiding) to gain money or artifacts.
How to Raid BT targets
To raid a target on the battle tab, your target must first be disabled. Once a target is disabled, raiding costs 5 energy. The raid cool down timer is 15 minutes on success, 5 minutes on failure. A large crew increases your raiding chances and lowers the chance of one of your crew dying. Players start the game with 100 crew members, consisting of 5 Tactical Officers, 5 Helmsmen, 80 Engineers, and 10 Scientists. Opponents with a large crew can cause you to fail in your raid attempt.
BT Raiding Results and Rewards
http://galaxylegion.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=33
From Dan (the game developer)'s post on the forum, the following outcomes are possible:
Critical Success: You will steal a larger amount of resources
Success: You will steal a normal amount of resources
Failure: You will receive no resources
Critical Failure: One of your crewmembers will die during the raid
A 'successful' raid results in you stealing Artifact Points (AP) or Mineral Points (MP) from your opponent at random. If the ship has no artifact points, you will instead steal mineral points, and vice versa.
There are currently 3 Medals that are awarded for successful raids. The 'Intruder Alert' medal is awarded for 100 successful raids. The 'Cleaning Crew' medal is awarded for 1000 successful raids. Finally, the 'My Cargo Runneth Over' medal is awarded for 5000 successful raids.
You will be awarded a yellow badge for completing a raid, even if your opponent has nothing to steal (raid succeeds, but does not add to your successful raids stat). However, you can only get one yellow badge from a player within any 24 hour period. Yellow badges can be used to purchase Battle Market Artifacts.
Advanced Raiding Tips
Here are 3 possible strategies:
1. ice-fishing
- waiting for someone else to disable players on your bt, and then snagging a raid
- pros: energy-efficient, can raid multiple times with TMs, less likely to be retaliated against if the original disabler uses up all of the victim's energy, no xp so no rank up
- cons: waiting ... waiting ... waiting
2. kill what you eat
- disabling 'weaker' players on your bt and collecting both a red and a yellow
- pros: 2 badges in one-go, plus more yellows with TMs, improve your own battle rep
- cons: much more likely to get a decent retal, uses up much more energy, especially if you pick the wrong target and they end up being tougher than they originally appeared, ranks you up much faster
3. old school
- anyone in your bt is a valid target, up to zero-ing (especially in wartime)
- pros: get to the medal VERY quickly
- cons: requires a decent ship build, both for attack efficiency, and the inevitable retals from legion alerts, your targets will begin to empty out their cargo holds more frequently, leaving you with a badge but no progress towards the medal
Base Raids
There is a primer on Base Raids on the Bases wiki page.