I've recently powered throught the Kronyn chain and my research is now terrible. It can be improve over time, but that's the problem.
In that time I could be picked on quite bad. I rarely get disables so not many red badges for me.

Here's my current stats:

Battles 5172 (Champion)
Player Kills 254
Deaths from Players 51
Non-Player Kills 128
Planets Found 165
Planets Occupied 29
Planets Captured 3
Missions Completed 249
Scans Performed 319
Successful Hacks 116
Successful Raids 45

I ranked up about 80 times in the space of 1 week and a bit. I'm now rank 126. PvP is really hard now as I only have singularities.

I've also spent about a total of £70 on GP. I don't think it would be a good idea to throw it out the window.

If I'm not going to reset, any ideas?

Heavy Singularities are enough to get the red badges, you then get the Dominions and it's an upward spiral!

How can I get 3 more Dom MK3's if I can't get red badges? Also, I have just under 400 space.

not sure what namalak's base structure is, if its research just hang for a bout a week and you should relativly be caught up. If it is arti based then hang at your level for a bit longer and let the arti's flow, that would help as well.

ALSO I used singularities well into rank 200 and they worked just fine for me. throw on some scanners if you can manage the room and you should be able to find some softer targets. Another thing to do is to use the spy probes, ALOT of people in that range bracket are - for reasons beyond me - employeing a glass jaw build, i.e. high attack / hull / low defense. Often times more than naught, they are just as easy to take out as players who dont focus on pvp, they just take a couple of more hits is all.

if you spent money on the game then resetting is not that great of an idea, the DOM cannons can be gottn after rank 100 it is just an arduous process as lots of people run KV's. use the stryll trap probes when you get them, that will help as well.

You can repair midfight. Have GL open in two tabs...

I have 400 decks. I really don't have the space for hull, weapons AND defenses... Resetting is the last thing I want to do. The space, I did this last time too. I had about 200 decks at rank 81. That was bad.

As of now I had also considered resetting, but I'm worse off than you. rank 153 w/ 632 decks. 34 kills, 192 deaths. I have around 12 horrible planets. What I decided to do is to get rid of my horrible planets. If you can sell enough artifacts/planets, and get around 2.5k ctp, you can buy a really good mining planet (15x MR toxic).. The majority of my bad planets are mining... In addition, if your legion switches to arti (or you switch to a new legion that gives arti) you'll be able to get more decks and everything else quicker...

See, I've also just completed the Kronyn chain too. I haven't really used my ability though. It's be a waste of hard work...

400 decks......oww, i got about that at 75.

Yeah, see what I mean. I have 0 space for anything. I can go with either, attack, defense, or hull. Not all 3. Even if it is balanced.

Go all weapons, and what hull you can. Get the badges. Life will become easier. And if you've gone heavily into crew, the great protean armories will be easy enough.

That could work for me.

Why don't you use your ability? You say you have poor research, but you have the most powerful RP booster in the game.

Stop trying to get reds when you aren't setup for PvP. Just do some useful missions until your RP catches up. Also, if your arti production is half way decent, you're better off slowing down to get more deck space from rescued prisoners and bots. Once those catch up, you'll have more flexibility.

What did you spend your GP on? If you still have most of the GP, you don't lose those on a reset. If you used your GP to buy energy refills to rank fast... At least you can make some great Gas/Plasma planets. Also, if you need mineral planets, make a 15x VM gas (or 17x plasma) and sell it or trade it. You should be able to get 2-4 15x mineral planets for the one gas.

And why did you post your ship stat summary? Who cares about those numbers. Your decks, hull, energy, etc along with your resource production are what matter. If you reset because your Player kill to death from player ratio might get worse... *boggle*

Another small, but helpful thing to do depending on your Legion, is to get your Crimson Hull and Weapons from Vortuls. Ask a few Npc battling members of your Legion if they'd cover your damage, and you can just tag. It'll be a small help, but some help nonetheless.

Thanks for the ideas guys. I can assure you though, my reputation would not get worse.
I made about 230 of those kills in my first 30 ranks. Then I powered. Not good! :O

I don't see much benefit to a reset - the more time that passes, the more cargo arties, shipbots, and rescued prisoners you'll get, and the more you can even out any rank point misallocations.

The big commodity in the game is time, and the earliest levels give you the least return on your time - getting past them makes the time you spend later more valuable.

If you've spent money on the game, virtually all of it would be wasted with a reset, so there's that to consider.

Also, if you've taken crappy planets, there's a few ways around this. If they're of a good size, you can buff them with NPC drops or CT Lab items. You can also try pulling the defenses and hoping someone else takes them. A few weeks back, someone took the worst planet on my entire list and fluxed it, as if I was going to be in some dire hurry to get it back. Even paying GP's to get rid of the dregs can still be better than resetting and losing all the GP you've spent so far.

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=24220 - Too late.