I just got my 2 years medal today... Currently rank 402...

Size Class: Heavy Star Destroyer
Space: 2593 / 2593
Attack: 9059
Defense: 11125
Scan: 221
Cloak: 530
Cargo: 9329 / 13250
Upkeep: 5.7B
Konqul: Attack +20%
Excavator: Artifact +10%

13250 Cargo
1500 Engineers
2025 Tactical Officers
891 Helmsmen
2307 Scientists

Hull: 11010
Shields: 3247
Energy: 1345
Max E: 3325
E recharge Rate: 86/hour

Ship Design Atlas
Size Class Heavy Star Destroyer
Weapons Heavy Thetacron Cannon x8, Dominion Cannon - Mark III x4, Radiant Surge Cannon - Mark III, Modulated Xecti Disruptor x4, Zebeeren's Cannon, Hypercharged Bane Emitter x4, Korteth Twin-Blaster x4, Leviathan Rift-Emitter x4, Composite Ray - Type D x2, Ion Pulse Ballistae x4, Lazuli Mind Controller x3, Exotic Pulser x3, Combat Analyzer, Prototype Mech XV, Drone Cluster
Energy Intra-D Collider - Mark IV, Wormhole Relay x4, Silthion T-Plasma Hub x3, F.A.T.H.E.R. x2, Dark Mutagen Battery, Omicron Injector, Chron-Transistor, Krionite Transducer, Exotic Dynamo
Sensors Continuum Parser, Litheor Tetractic Crystal, Stryll Transponder x2, AI Supercomputer, Flux Ringdisc, Tachyon Router
Hull Perfect Fermionic Armor x4, Kalvium Fortified Plating x2, Mylarai Plasma Lance x4, Korteth Plating, Impact Absorber, Tractor Beam
Shields Field Balancer, Harmonic Resonator, Q-Phase Battery Array
Cloaking Kronyn Anomaly Engine x4, Gamma Channeler
Defenses Trans-Entropy Drive - Mark III x4, Exergonic Inverter - Mark III x4, Velox Thruster x2, Sha'din Forcevoider x4, Silthion T-Phase Utricle x4, BM50 Convoy Shuttle x3, Dark Phase Engine x4, Scruuge X-Deflector x4, Octafari Deflector x4, Prejoran Power-Diffuser x4, Auto-Evasion Node, Trinity-Core Drive x2, Subspace Compressor, Thrust Stabilizer, Chron-Pulse Drive

Minerals 8880 units / hour Caps at: 85500
Artifacts 10187 points / hour Caps at: 109000
Production: 7647 research / hour Caps at: 72300

Battles 123064 (Grand Legend)
Player Kills 900
Deaths from Players 333
Non-Player Kills 8746
Planets Found 450
Planets Occupied 87
Planets Captured 47
Missions Completed 879
Scans Performed 1883
Successful Hacks 1302
Successful Raids 794

What do you think? criticisms accepted... lol just don't go over the top

You are doing pretty decent. I would highly recommend that you up your arti production.

Really? 2 years you have been playing and you still don't have 120?

I would say for your rank you are doing pretty well, for the amount of time played...well just goes to show slow ranking doesn't pay off.

in all honesty, these 2 years, only 8 months of that time have i actually known very much about how to play properly. The rest of the time i was basically just collecting resources (i had apauling productions then). I have not got 120 E per hour since it has not been somethign which has ever been pointed out to me that i should get asap or needed by a certain rank e.t.c. Yes thanks my arti does need to go up. What should i aim for to have by rank 450? and littlefluffy i have spent as much E as i can in this game and i never intended to 'slow rank, i have tended to rank about once a day on average for the last 6 months although i had a week where i ranked about 30 times to get krionite transducer. Thanks for the feedback all. Any other points anyone would like to make? All criticisms/ help is appreciated.

good job your ship i awesome congrats

Thanks mate, where would you say i should improve?

mby enrg charge and hull outer stuff are perfect ,you need the last velox as well

ok thanks

The final relay is unaffordable at 400, as well as it being unlikely to have all the mission tier rewards.

I never considered myself a slow ranker (at least, I never slow ranked deliberately), but I recently got the 2 year medal as well, at rank 373. I think that's mostly because I'm a lazy player. Ranking every other day, really isn't slow ranking by many slow ranker's standards either. I could rank every day, myself. I'm not that far off of an autorank too.

Nice to know i'm not the only one!

I had 120 recharge by early 300s and would have had it earlier if I had bought my FATHERs earlier. I wouldn't exactly call it "unaffordable" when it's only another 38mil each per day when he already has 5.7bil upkeep.

Well, with relays it's mostly the repair costs you have to think about.

5.7B a day in upkeep and a couple extra bill every week or two is breaking the bank? If he's really that close to his upkeep he should spend his money a little more wisely since his mineral/hr is well above what mine was at that point and I had a higher upkeep.

i can afford them just haven't done the research into the Energy tree. I never saw a need to do anymore since i was going for 2k engineers where i could nearly auto rank

Yeah, eventually your recharge rate doesn't really matter for much. It's really just there to speed up the whole process and for those times when you don't want to auto rank or feel like doing some low ratio missions/donations/base battles.

I had HyperChannels at rank 340, and at current 379 I am 75 missions completed, with a number of low missions I could do to speed up the process, probably letting me achieve 120 at or soon after 400.

looks like i need to work on E chain then. When i finish the current thing i am on atm, how far should i research up to? till hyperchannel relays are done? or further?

A lot like Quasi-chaotic blasters there are a large number of people who argue the upkeep for the last tier of energy mods just aren't worth it. I would get the relays just so you can do more in a day (not necessarily rank wise, but you can accomplish more in a given amount of time) and stop there.

ok thanks follyuu, any other advice on things to research for my ship? priorities? currenytly finishing topolis rings, got about 450k left of that. done fist tier top level shields... what else should i do? Btw aiming for 10k min and res asap then purely arti till i need more mining again lol.