I personally agree with the Wingman Protection concept.
Bravo!

Days Humor . . . .
unknown ship - "Dude, you gonna mine that moon you are orbiting or may I?"
Swiftus - "Err, that's not a moon, that's Nocifer, we are exchanging Artis while waiting for the next NPC Alert."

Lol! Funny. Since I just hit rank 300 today right on Oct 1st! I decided to screenshot my ship as rank 300.. See my nice low upkeep? Low tech items rock!

thoose stats are pretty big, i have only just started so they seem even greater than i was expecting to have.

do you have to spend real money in this game to get stats like that, or can you get that good with no money put in?

No you have to put money in the game to get that many decks and tactical officers.

im guessing alot of ship bots, and androids where used plus prisoners to get rank points and other atrifacts like brakets and batterys too.

can you be strong and have a very good ship in this game without spending real money ?

Ya you can if you get your arti production up really high and get those artifacts then you can become a strong player without spending any money. Most of the players over rank 300 do spend money on the game thou so you may never catch them but once you get to their rank I'm sure you will be right in with the mass of the others your rank.

Yeah. I have spent some money early on and it slows down lately thanks to very high artifact production and constant NPC farming that really helps to supply lot of free ship improvement to my ship without requiring me to waste any rank-up Rank points into deck size. It seems that 5k artifact points per hour + vaults+rescued prisoners from NPCs give me about 10-15 free decksize upgrade per rank (if I don't do any energy refills) that allows me to invest 5 rank points into tactical officers for many ranks. I was able to invest some rescued prisoners from NPCs/production into tactical officers lately because of slower tech advancement so I didn't need much decksize upgrades lately so my tactical officer hiring just got accelerated. I hope to hit 2k officers by rank 350 free.

Btw, you cannot buy tactical officers.

As for some cash buys lately in last 2-3 months, I only focused on planetary-related artifacts but almost nothing toward ship and my ship still gets big really fast without need of cash infusion.

Bottom line.. Constant NPC farming in the Dysonian AND high artifact production = pwnage!!! You can do that without any need of cash if you are devoted to it for months.. There is hope for everyone..

I like my approach artifact production > research > mining.. Too many players made common mistake is that they put artifact production on sparse artifact planets while there is rich in research for example. Bad idea.. You need to put proper resource structure in highest modifier type of resource on that particular planet. Do use lot of artifact-based production structures on planets that you'll get so many from artifact production. I think I got all planets maxed out with artifacts all for free and I get lot of surpluses now.

Also, to get that big ship requires proper specialization.. I specialize in artifact production and combat (You can see my race and profession obviously and I never ever changed to other races other than Konqul. I'm Konqul ALL way) plus proper crewmen placement plus proper tech research. Lot of players went for heavy research that ended up eating lot of cash down the road plus they focus too much on energy with lot of engineers that allows them to rank up faster than I do but that handicaps the combat side.. I focus heavy on combat in sacrifice of speed of rank ups.. That's why you don't see me in top 8 leader for ranks cuz I rather to be strong for my rank. I'm probably the strongest one in my rank category.. You also don't see me in top 8 for research simply cuz I don't focus on it heavily and it really cut down my ship upkeep ALOT that I don't require much of mining that enables me to go heavy on artifact production. I only have 2,800 mining per hour right now.. I had fought lot of ships with much superior in research and they weren't no match of my ship simply cuz they are smaller and much fewer in crewmen due to their low artifact production.. Having lot of crewmen really helps to inflate my ship stats ALOT without increasing upkeep at all and it also allows me to invade planets much easier and raid players a lot easier too. I am able to raid almost anybody with very high success rate even without raider profession class..

One fine example of the advantage of very high artifact production is that I have nice 500 more hp in shield using SAME shield technology as Rank 366 Dysonian who is 66 ranks higher than me and I never ever spent any cents on brackets and xcharges in my lifetime. I figure that I will have about 1,000 more hp (I will have little over 12.3k hp once maxed out) hull than him as well once I max out hull tech that he is already on. All thanks to very high artifact production that I have almost 2x more than he does. We both farm NPCs to get about same amount of vaults (he probably got it little more often than I do) but my artifact production helps to make up the difference and give me even more..

makes sense to me, i just cant find artifact planets, but im sure i will find them and will do as you said, fingers crosssed by the time i meet the requirments to join you lot there will be spaces

as for being a specialist i need to work out alot more what the game actually can do before i can make a judgement of how to doi it, but i will most likey be following in your train of thought

Yeah, it's harder to find good artifact planets now.. Before the melter nerf, melters were so common that I kept getting so many of them from artifact production that enables me to convert so many useless icy planets into oceanic ones that are under my control now. I have 38 or 39 oceanic planets right now. Dan nerfed the melter output from artifact production so it won't happen. I'm sorry that you just missed that chance that we, old timers, went through..

What rank are you now by the way? I guess that you already read this thread to know enough about the Dysonians that made you interested in joining due to common interests and goals that we all have..

Personally I wouldn't get discouraged by investing money into the game. I have invested very little into it myself(couple bucks more for Dan than anything), although I have taken advantage of the free offers to earn points and I think I'm doing quite well with my ship. I just figure at some point if I want to invest some money into my ship the option is always there, but i will keep leveling and improving it regardless.

*looks t nocifers ship an see's all the green* my my thats alot of buffs going on there noci

Aye, I had gotten several free offers to earn to get GPs. It seems that it's easier to do that in USA than other countries as per other foreigners said that.. GL is only FB game that I'm willing to donate money to help it out cuz it's the best one ever plus Dan earns that so I feel that my money is well invested. CA is only other FB that I only wasted modest amount of money to invest in. I definitely REFUSE to waste one single cent into mafia wars!! Lol.

I ask for players who despise the dysonians to join me in death from above. I've been harrassed long enough by chrismarkey24. I've made it my mission to only attack them until he is dropped from their ranks.

rotflmfao...good luck with that dude

hehehehe. your joking right???

You could continue to relentlessly bang your head against the Dyson sphere, or you could just suck it up and say you've had enough. No one here is a monster, we are reasonable people. Retaliation breads more retaliation, so the only person who is perpetuating this battle....is you.

If this is so why have I not been alerted to your clan yet?? I want to fight. I won't alert anyone. Pick me! Pick me! I love some PVP and I guess it could be fair if it was like 20 noobs against me. lol

But as Bob says we are nice guys. If you want him to stop I'm sure he would if you talked to him and worked it out. I don't know what was done to start it however but I'm sure it could be worked out.

Now I got to run trying to kill 10K NPC's by the end of tommarow night.

Hands Nocifer a klenex......Seems you missed a brown spot on your nose after you removed it from ....Well we all know where.

@Bob....No one? I count 1 ^

Thre comes a point when you just have to cut your losses and move on, man. There is no single planet in this game worth having an anyrism over if it gets captured by somebody too string to reclaim it from. Just purge it, move on, and find a replacement.

i am a pitiful rank 26 , loads more ranks till im at the 150 target, plenty to learn but i like games like this with a bit of depth and a learnig curve to it, plus with me working shifts means i can get on at some weird hours and for a long time if needed.

yeah read though as much stuff as i could find on the forum, i like the idea of the npc drops to make you stronger, and a group that works together sounds good to me.