Okay. For a start, the moment you upgrade your cannons from disruptors to devastators your upkeep is going to rocket. Heavy Devastators cost 21mil, giving them an upkeep of roughly 1mil. As for the hulls? You don't really need them. I only carry 1407 hull at 104, and I use Nanospheres+Vortuls. What I would recommend researching though is your cloaking, and then you can hit the shields (get up to regional shields for your planets), nanospheres, MicroWarps, and finally: Singularity Launchers. Good luck with the upkeeps! If you need help, just ask. I can help ya out bud, or you could ask someone in your legion.

lol i have researched mostly hulls. i am at the first tier on the last tier (hope that made sense) and im rank 118 i have over 4k hulls when i install all 5 of them

Yes that did make sense. You are at the first stage of the last tier of hull.

thank you

your hull is fine. research shield for better planet protection

Shields! You NEED planet defences.

Doesnt really matter to slow rank by not investing in energy, RESEARCH ENERGY(Yes I read the comment). Just get the cores up because you will want them later you may not have to add them but you really need to research them. That or put 2 Rank points in Engineers each level like me. I slow level with a energy build.

I know he likes to rank slow. But Good God, you haven't even done cold fusion?? you can barely move your ship with 100 energy.

if you mean me, yes i have researched energy.

my research stats:
Weapons: Matter Disruption tier 2
Energy: singularity control tier 0 (haven't strted this one yet)
Shields: Lattice Fields tier 0
Cloak: Wideband Jamming tier 0
Hulls: Syncopated Plating Tier 1
Defenses: Phase Shifting tier 1
Scan: Multiwave Sensors tier 1
Planet Construction: Deep Extraction tier 0 (i know i know, its low)
Legion base: A.I. Logistics tier 1

You need more scanners and planet construction. You have decent hull though, i got the perfect fermionic armor and have nearly 7k hull.

Why isn't energy in the poll???!!!!! even though you'll have nulls at like rank 100, and even though you're a slow ranker, you won't be able to kill more than 5 people as you're energy will burn out, If you don't have the space, take some weapons out or put rank points into engineers.

he doesn't need scanners, planetary buildings can wait til rank 100.

No he needs scanners and planet buildings. In this order, Energy,Planet Buildings,Scan

dude, I'm doing fine with sub dimensional scanners mk3, plus he doesn't have the space to equip all 5 scanners at once.

You are wrong Kai, why are you even givin' advice, you screwed your account up so badly up to the point we recommended you to reset. Joshballs and my advice are golden.
He needs planet buildings and scanners, very badly too, i got level 4 structures at rank 30 and multiwaves at rank 40.

Ill say Very Nice for Common wealth, also funny ingame name is golden. But yes you did have your account horribly set,
Reason you need to do it in this order
Energy first due to because you REALLY REALLY need it. No arguing there
Planet Buildings first because when you scan run you can use the planet buildings you just researched.
Scanning so you can go on a epic scanning spree and find some good planets and use your new planet structures on them.
Then Shields so you can keep the planets you scanned.

Right. So the general theme is scanners and buildings. Great. I can't even fit 5 scanners on now. Great. Buildings I guess I could do... looks like +5 buildings are going to be expensive though. What is the cost in RP and (CR)?
Energy... I guess I could research that... I reckon I could fit 1 reactor on. A small one mind. As for shields? How long would it take me to reach mass shields? Because until then I might as well just use minefields.
My Original Weapons Plan:
40 - Graviton Shearers
50 - Disruptor Cannons
60 - Quantum Devastators
75 - Singularity Launchers
90 - Anti Proton Cannons
110 - Null Rays
130 - Thetracon Cannons
150 - Quasi-Chaotic Blaster

My Current Weapons Plan
40 - Graviton Shearers
45 - Disruptor Cannons
50 - Quantum Devastators
60 - Singularity Launchers
75 - Anti Proton Cannons
95 - Null Rays
115 - Thetracon Cannons
135 - Quasi Chaotic Blaster

Yeah. I generally kill 3-7 people a day currently. That's kind of the point. I can take out rank 70's using no artifacts though. That means I can kill someone, while being outside of their badge range. Which is fun.

Doing great strm, keep it up and soon you'll be catchibg up on VAMPIRO and Firespray. Sheild is always a good thing, so focus on that

Officially I am 392 kills away from the leaderboard. 1174 from the top ten. The moment I hit quasi blasters I'm gunna go all out on energy.

Now. As far as the mk. 2 dominion cannons are concerned... I wish I hadn't scrapped dominions for tech parts for my old base - else I would have 2/3 by now.