I was just about to suggest the trellith chain but apparently you're all over it already.

Like you said, trellith would have been a large part of that aph increase - it wasn't all just luck. lol

little bit of an update here:

Rank 548 Konqul Excavator again. Spent the last 10 days doing the Genetarr medals-- I gotta say that is the most useless race there is-- but I got my awesome Nephthys ship design so I'm a happy girl. Glad to be done with that race, and never to do it again! I currently have 850 medal points, and I've still yet to get my 1 year award (20 more days). As of right now I'm beginning work on lone conqueror, as I lost loyalty for some planet trading in the past week. I miss doing LMs and hitting bases, but I figure it's best to get this over with now since I don't want to lose loyalty in the future.

Now that I'm done with the Genetarr medals I'm gearing up for the holiday NPCing. I'm doing the Lazuli chain through the chapters that get me a fifth and sixth NPC slot. I'm also hoping to finish up the Decrypting the Vault mission so that I can get rid of those blasted Rogue Data Analyzers that keep diluting my NPC pool. Meanwhile, I'm slowly pecking away at getting enough reds for tri-blasters. Not doing a massive push like I did for auto-blasters, though, b/c I think the Lazuli and Vault missions are a higher priority.

Arti is still increasing nicely, I'm at just over 33k aph now.
Ship strength is just a hair over 43.

What happened to this list of missions...

" * The Dark Smuggler chain
* Talth chain
* The Voliir chain (for upgrading defense mods)
* Mylarai for the hull mods

Things that have been suggested to me, but I'm iffy on:

*Lazuli for an additional 2 NPC slots
*Exotic chain for the tactical re-modulation ability "

I think KoChan must have been whispering in your ear about the evils Rogue Data dilution. It's a lot of energy to throw at a mission just to slightly increase the spawn rate of assassins (the other common npcs are as useless as the RDAs anyway). KoChan's aversion I can sort of understand cause he's haunted by the childhood trauma he suffered at the hands of a nasty RDA gang but why are you so keen to get rid of them?

Good questions all. First to your comments about kochan- I rarely talk strategy with him, mostly we just talk about drinking and blowing #&$# up

The Dark Smugglers Chain- it's a TON of energy, for not a huuuge reward. I'm doing just fine with my mineral production, so creds are not really a problem. It's something I want to do, but that I've decided isn't a priority.

Talth- I rank pretty fast, and I prefer NPCing to most other things. I feel like Talth is a better option for people who rank slower and don't necessarily NPC a whole lot and get terraformers. I will eventually do talth, bit the more I think about it, the more it just doesn't feel like the right fit for me. I love being konqul.

The Voliir Chain- it's probably the one mission I'm really waffling over- I want it for the defense boosts and for Sehrin (because I might as well rank Sehrin when I do the daily missions) but I don't think it's the smartest priority over Lazuli.

Mylarai- I decided the 5% hull boost is not really the most amazing thing ever when you account for the massive amount of energy I'd need to expend doing that chain and when you take into consideration I just now hit 20k hull. When I am at 30k, or even 40k, it feels like it will be a much smarter move.

Lazuli- the reason I'm doing Lazuli now is b/c while I was doing the Genetarr medals (so much NPCing) I was constantly getting elite/boss locked. I ended up killing a lot of elites myself which isn't a huge deal energy-wise, but other legionmates miss out on the drops. I'm tired of begging for taps and help on elites/bosses just so I can continue playing. I'm hoping having 6 slots will give me a lot more flexibility.

And you might be right about the Decrypting the Vault chain... I honestly don't know. it's a lot of energy, but those NPCs are really quite annoying. I scrapped my RSL anti-cryptex 2 weeks ago, and now i have: RSL Anti-Cryptex (Uses Left: 833). when you consider that they dilute the pool AND you receive 50 xp with each kill I feel like they are quite the nuisance. But, I honestly have no idea if I can get both Lazuli AND Decrypting the Vault done by October, so this all might be a moot point.

Edit: I was also under the impression that RDAs diluted ALL NPCs not just the common ones. Am I wrong? Does anyone know for sure?

No comments about my Voliir waffling?

also, ICBLF found this for me: http://galaxylegion.com/wiki/index.php/Equations#NPC_Spawn_Weight_Approximation

it appears that the RDAs affect the entire pool, but as with all things on the wiki, we should take that with a grain of salt.

oops - can't believe I missed the most important one. lol

Stop Waffling.

The defence mod upgrades rock, and like you said, may as well be ranking Sehrin now with all the daily missions. I'd definitely go it straight after you have the 2 extra npc slots. ( you could make sure you have enough spy uplinks put away for it now though )

i agree that the extra 2 slots from the Lazuli chain are worth the effort. paired with the tactical re.mod ability ... i NPC'd for nearly 8 hours straight overnight. dropped my days per rank quite a bit ... but am now a true SSB and a Kronyn to boot. and i hear you about feeling guilty dropping elites solo .. but it helps if you can co.ordinate an NPC rampage with other like.ranked legion mates at the same time so you can help each other out. i am holding off on the final 2 npc slots due to the xp required and i also want to avoid scrolling in that tab for as long as i can

my next missions will be the Vollir chain to get Sehrin, then polishing off Agressive Evolution so i can hunt for the Silthion ships ... then i will be doing daily missions to rank up Sehrin (including the Alarri chain to pick up Trovar) and Talth concurrently, while i Kronyn uplift research richness and hack out Sha'din ships to get the hacker vs hacker medal (returning to Excavator as soon as that is done).

i share your opinion on the Mylarai missions - my hull is also just under 20k and the bang for the buck just is not there yet. i am on the other side of the fence on Decrypting the Vault. yeah, those RDA's are annoying ... but they only take 5 hits to kill at cap ... and can be useful for the legion mission task when it comes up. for me, the amount of xp to finish that chain is just not worth the meagre reward.

I'm holding off on the final two for quite some time too, for the reasons you mentioned. And coordinating NPC rampages is always a fun time, but the other person in my legion who NPCs with the regularity that I do and is in my rank range (Deigobene) is an aussie, and we are so often playing at completely different times which is super unfortunate. But a lot of people in my legion are catching up to me in rank and since I'll be slowing down this month to do missions, I figure that maybe they will catch up even more!


I've already finished up the silth stuff, which is a big relief. I plan on doing the Hacker vs. Hacker medal when November hits- going to switch to a Human Hacker (ick!) to kill two birds with one stone and all that.



I'm reconsidering doing Decrypting the Vault now b/c of you and Dicky here, and considering pushing for Voliir before I do that one. I'll mull it over while I'm working my way through Lazuli.

Cheers for all the comments, guys!

Yep, just my 2 cents, but I am loving Sehrin. Feels soooo good to do those new dailies, get cool mods that take up almost no space and rank the little fella at the same time

BAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Yesterday was my GL birthday!! I celebrated by doing about 4 ranks of NPCs

Goals that have been accomplished since the last update: I finished lone conqueror! 4 fails along the way, two of which were at 90%. One was at 64%, another at 78%. Got a few good arti planets along the way as well as a lot of great artis that I ripped off of planets.

I finished doing the Lazuli chain through the chapters that give you NPC slots. I now have 6 NPC slots and I'm ready for the holiday NPCs. Lately I've been doing a mix of PvPing and NPCing. I'm close to rank 600 so I figure I should milk the CTP raining elites as much as I can. Alternatively, I'm also pecking away at the Voliir chain. I believe I'm 4 chapters in. I'm currently doing a little bit more planet trading, hoping to be finished with it by Thursday at the latest. Then it's back to being loyal... finally. I miss the CT lab!

because I'm feeling lazy:




ship strength of 47.9

Minerals 18352 units / hour
Artifacts 35327 points / hour
Research 15737 research / hour

AP/rank = 61.5

895 medal points.
So far I'm pretty happy with my progress and having a blast playing. What more can you ask for?

More Galaxy points! :p

Hello! It's been quite awhile, figured I'd update this sucker since I am having a slow Sunday morning.

Lately I've been NPCing like mad, with a fair mix of PvPing in there. I'm aiming to make a 37x rift soon: I have 19 terraformers in cargo, and need 2 more before I can start working on a nice desert planet I have waiting to become a crystal then a rift. I've gone from just having the anubix to having four allies, within the space of 3 weeks. Anubix rank 47, Bane rank 9, Bainar rank 10, and Sehrin rank 22. I only really rank Sehrin when I'm in a rush and can't play GL a lot that day. It bores me. I'm feeding Bainar faithfully as close to every 20 hours as I can remember to do. All the timers are hard for me to keep track of, think I might start setting alarms... but that seems a little crazy

Goals as of right now include NPCing for dark badges, PvPing and getting my tri blasters (close to my first one, need about 60 more reds), and I'm going to be starting the Titancore mission chain for the scan mods. I'm feeling lazy right now but eventually I'm going to look up all the different missions I need to do for scan mods. Right now with the UST buff I can get up to about 11k scan, but I want MOAR! I also want to get my planet quality index up over 500. Once I"m finished with my rift, I have a terra and a barren that are awesome and fully cloaked waiting to be fully uplifted. they are both at 8x right now, so once I start slapping the terraformers on them again my arti is going to increase nicely again.

I'm at 960 medal points right now.

Stats and stuff:



unbuffed:

Size Class: Star Destroyer
Space: 2271 / 2271
Attack: 17492
Defense: 14880
Scan: 821
Cloak: 1231
Cargo: 51474 / 61890
Upkeep: 9.8B
Konqul: Attack +20%
Excavator: Artifact +10%

forums are being weird and won't show the number of my hull, so here:

that's buffed shield, so divide by two.

Crew:
5856 Engineers
8141 Tactical Officers
4295 Helmsmen
7515 Scientists

Productions:
Minerals 20298 units / hour
Artifacts 42895 points / hour
Research 19551 research / hour

SS/R = 50.24
Arti/R= 66.61
PQI= 476.13

Comments and suggestions are always appreciated!

Just give us your general production numbers, ain't nobody got time for maths.

Umm... reading comprehension much?

LOL
OWNED
Seriously though, nice productions! You have over double my AP production at about 1.5x my rank.... I do have 39 (EDIT: 29) open slots though, so that might have something to do with it.

What I meant is that I didnt want to do the equation to know your production numbers 66.whatever per rank makes me do math

You know what? I give up.

Instead I'll just say that you have a great ship!