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 Decks or Engineers? 
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Am lvl 32, Most of my ship is built for PvP, but also i want to do the Xecti mission chain to become that race.
So my question is- do i continue to put ship points into decks? or hire engineers? currently my energy without modules is 126 and my deck space is 135/142.
I dont know what to do, advice?


Mon Apr 16, 2012 2:40 pm
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Decks decks decks until you hit about 2k decks.

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I disagree. We always suggest to our lower level legionmates to put some points in to engineers... because engineers never go out of style. But more importantly because raiding is a direct comparison between the crews of the two ships. So if you have no crew, then you won't succeed at raids. And if you don't get yellow badges from raiding, then you don't get one of the better modules in the game, protean armories. Getting protean armories becomes much more difficult the later in the game you try it, so we always recommend low level players get them while they can. Because even if it's a pain in the butt, they really are worth it.

Now, back to your question. I see no reason that doing the xecti mission chain would change the deck/engineer ratios we recommend. And they are a bit fluid to be honest as it all depends on if you're succeeding at raids. But we generally recommend a ratio of 4 rank points in decks and 1 rank point in engineers until you get all three proteans. Some players who are having difficulties with raiding may be counselled to put more points into engineers at a lower rank for that ratio to then be balanced out at higher ranks. It all just depends on what you want.


Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:32 pm
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personal belief is, at your level decks are your friend, the more you can fit, the more you can do. I would worry about placing engineers after you can place full hull / weapons / 1 or 2 defenses, all at the best that you can buy - and afford.

after you can do that is when i would start worring about spending rank points on crew [ but engineers, and tac officers only ]

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Jawwa wrote:
I disagree. We always suggest to our lower level legionmates to put some points in to engineers... because engineers never go out of style. But more importantly because raiding is a direct comparison between the crews of the two ships. So if you have no crew, then you won't succeed at raids. And if you don't get yellow badges from raiding, then you don't get one of the better modules in the game, protean armories. Getting protean armories becomes much more difficult the later in the game you try it, so we always recommend low level players get them while they can. Because even if it's a pain in the butt, they really are worth it.

Now, back to your question. I see no reason that doing the xecti mission chain would change the deck/engineer ratios we recommend. And they are a bit fluid to be honest as it all depends on if you're succeeding at raids. But we generally recommend a ratio of 4 rank points in decks and 1 rank point in engineers until you get all three proteans. Some players who are having difficulties with raiding may be counselled to put more points into engineers at a lower rank for that ratio to then be balanced out at higher ranks. It all just depends on what you want.



He has already put 23 points into engineers, I think that's plenty.

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I would agree Tinomony if he were level 23, but he's not. And until he has a full complement of proteans, I stick to my 4:1 ratio. Proteans are so worth it in the end. And who couldn't use a little extra energy?


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You can't really put a solid ratio on rank points to all rank brackets. Pre-100, 4 decks to 1 engineer is fine. 100-200, 3 decks to 1 tactical officer to 1 engineers. After reaching 2k decks, all points should go into engineers or tac's.

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I would say, that the first 50 ranks (if not more) are completely useless - a extension of the tutorial almost. Therefore, I do (and this may surprise you) recommend 100% engineers. If you get your energy w/o relays to 200, you can rank fairly quickly without cores. Then, go all decks. Bring cores on from there if you really must get more energy...

Quit decks at 2k decks, or 4k artifact production, whichever is earlier.

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