well he is a rank 10 frigate I'd say there is also a good chance he's spent GP

that's not the only way though...
lowest frigate is 100 decks... you start with 20, and 9 rank-ups from 1 to 10 give another 45 rank points... that leaves 35 more he would need.... if he was chilling out in a legion collecting high artifact from a base, he could push beyond artifact point cap, and if he collects while over 4k, can potentially get prisoners... it would be something else to quiz him about... his history with the game (did he ever reset), was he in another legion before this one... how did he get the decks to become a frigate?

there's also a very low level npc that drops lazuli vaults

but this also goes along with the possible explanation that he's been around awhile if he was collecting from a base long enough to get there it would also be the time period required to get that many hacks/raids.

I think he's a reroll because he seemingly knows what he's doing with so many hacks/raids and his race/prof choice is also Konq Excavator this is a person with a plan. How many noobs would choose Konq Excavator right out the gates?

yah.. so next time ya see him, chat up a storm... latch onto him and suck his brains out like a brainslug

I have seen players stay at level 4-5 and do nothing but hack, and never get disabled cause no one else knows how to play the game yet. But, 3 armories with 70 raids is obviously a cheat

Especially when he hasn't disabled anyone, and u need to disable to get the yellow badges, and also he only has 95 battles, by the time u get 3 proteans u would have alot more than 95 battles.

i counted up the things he has fitted, adds upto 178 decks, which is heavy frigate, but he is classed as standard (upto 150) so it doesnt matter how many bots or prisoners he has access to there is something rotten there

Really? I make it 145...

U mean total of 24 decks for the proteans, they are size 8 each. So it's a total for everything he has on for 139 decks.

Whoops, yes. The others are 10 size, so I get confused.

I get yellow badges by leaving the BT idle on my browser, when I look up to hack someone, sometimes they're disabled, so i can't resist raiding them for a yellow badge. He's probably leaving the BT idle, and waiting for someone to get disabled.

MULTI ALERT!!!!

HE COULD BE A MULTI! There's no way a n00b would be able to stay level 10 for long. It's possible, but unbelievable. He's probably a hardcore gamer with a multi account that has learned the ins and outs of the game. Am I right? The proof is in the pudding!

Or someone who restarted, and wanted to have a really impressive ship. Around Rank 30 I slowed down immensely in an attempt to do the same (without the whole restart thing).

As for all the people crying out on the badges - At the lowest ranks, most people probably won't have any MP/AP (especially if they're the people doing those offers to get to Rank 10 for whatever points in another game), so you can get a yellow badge in 5 minutes without a recorded raid (I had done this for...20 or so badges?).

Also, I can't say he just doesn't want to be on the leaderboards, but at a rank like that the RP from hacking probably seems like a decent amount.

Overall I'd say legit, although with his knowledge it's possible that there are at least 3 answers, only one of which is rule breaking:

• He has a friend, who helped tutor him through the low ranks.
• He reset his account from a higher rank, with a plan on what to do.
• He is indeed a multiaccount.

Either way, I've got to admire that kind of patience.

Or he's cheating, plain and simple

I couldn't really see a way for you to just make badges (or the badge modules) appear out of thin air, not even with some kind of glitch, although I suppose it's possible.

i think this issue has been discussed enough in the forum.... all possibilities have already been explored... it's up to the one(s) that discovered it to either give the guy a chance to explain the mysteries and/or have dan check into M-word abuse...

let's leave it alone, since we're just saying the same stuff over and over

>:D i reset and i got about 10 rescued prisoners, 7 ship bots, and im rank 62.... 5k artifact shipments and at the moment 500 artifact production...


the NPC i think is Ravali Lazuli Scout...2 dck 10 shield 10 hull max damage i think is 10 or something...low total hp