rank 194
Size Class: Goliath
Space: 1180 / 1189
Attack: 2776
Defense: 1880
Scan: 506
Cloak: 500
Cargo: 354 / 920
Upkeep: 599.9M
Konqul: Attack +20%
Miner: Mining +10%

Weapons Heavy Null Ray x6, Vortul Blast Phaser, Dominion Cannon x3, Combat Analyzer, Prototype Mech XV
Energy Intra-D Collider - Mark IV x3, Drannik Power Core x3, Isomorphic Repeater x4, Omicron Injector, Chron-Transistor
Sensors Sha'din AI Core x4, Stryll Transponder x2, Voliir Modulator x3, Stryll Hunt Sensor x2, Decryption Quad-Frame x4, AI Supercomputer
Hull Deep Core Neutronium Armor x3, Vortul Plating, Protean Armory
Shields T.O. Force Barrier x2, T.O. Harmonic GigaPulser x4, Harmonic Resonator, Q-Phase Battery Array
Cloaking CipherBot x3, Kronyn Anomaly Engine, Zolazin Jammer x2, Gamma Channeler
Defenses Energy Nullifier - Mark III x3, Dark Complex Thruster x2, Dark Ring Thruster x2, Thrust Stabilizer, Subspace Compressor

Battles 17440 (Grand Master) balanced
Player Kills 210
Deaths from Players 203
Non-Player Kills 510
Planets Found 107
Planets Occupied 48
Planets Captured 12
Missions Completed 522
Scans Performed 502
Successful Hacks 741
Successful Raids 182

energy: max 1010, 44 per hour
hull: 4640
shields: 1366

minerals: 1736 units / hour
artifact: 1127 points / hour
research: 2075 points / hour

Currently working towards upgrading dom cannons and getting last 2 protean armory and adding hull ( trying to max out!)
Any suggestions?

I would suggest dropping most of your scan mods (not the voliir ones), most of your cloak mods, and all of your shield mods. With the space that would give you, install both remaining hull mods, and both guns if there is enough room. After that focus on getting all 8 defense mods, then start adding in shields, scan, and cloak. That is how I planned my ship. Also get your mining up so you can switch to fixer or excavator or something like that.

ok, i was hoping to keep the scanning and cloaking mods as it took me a while to aquire all of them! but i think you are right about the mining! also the shield mods are generally quite useful i find... unless you have a specific reason why they should be removed?

Because hull is far more efficient for each space taken on your ship. Also, he isn't saying scrap every scan mod you have come across, just uninstall them, sell the researched ones, and focus on combat. Unless you are hacking or going on a scan blitz, you will be way better off using only combat mods.

ok, will get started when i can afford to build mor hull! unless someone wants to donate about 500 mill creds? /400 kur1 lol

I'd say get your AP up, that's all I can think of suggesting right now, just passed 2k myself at 150

ok, thanks, i think i need to get rid of some of my planets and get some better ones, got 8/10 which their best resource is abundant!

Yeah, that is definitely going to hinder you a bit, if you can abandon them it'd be for the best. Try not to colonize anything smaller than Very Large, or Large if it has good production, and really anything under Very Rich isn't worth the cost, exception being gas if it's a VM, even then no less than rich.

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Comparisons ^ My stats are here:
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But I'd take mine with a pinch of salt. Your attack/defence seem okay, though nothing special. I would like to point out, however, that while you have Null Rays, I have more attack with Antiprotons and I'm not Konqul either. Tech levels are highly overrated. You also need your last 2 hulls...

My more important stats:
Space: 1541 / 1543
Hull: 10303
Attack: 3010
Defense: 4408
Upkeep: 462.8M

I'd recommend switching to Konqul Excavator.

I saw flaws in your ship, bit you quashed them in you last sentence. Good job!
I'd recommend losing Miner ASAP. Switch to Excavateur or Fixer. Konqul is a solid choice, you could stay with that if you want.

thanks, would be nice to see some other comparisons though!

When I say get rid of them, I mean just uninstall them unless they are researchable ones, sell those. And as far as the shields are concerned, hull is a lot more efficient space wise than shields, so you should always max hull before you start adding shields.

Rank 199
Space: 1478/1487
Hull: 6936
Attack: 3036
Defense: 3630
Upkeep: 271.3M
Race: Aerlen Fixer

Max energy: 1264, 44 per hour

Minerals: 1525 units/hour
Artifacts: 2626 points/hour
Research: 2960/hour

Work on getting your arti up, take off your scan/cloak mods, max out on attack and hull first then work on your defence, work on getting the next planet buildings and scan mods it'll help a lot more in the long run to have better planets and better productions, slow rank and get your arti production up and your ship will significantly improve, hope that helps!

This.

And this. And Null rays are totally worth it, in my opinion, if you can afford the upkeep on them. I would guess that it would be tough to maintain at a rank below 150 or so though.

Also, I point this out: You don't need 1k max energy all the time. Take the longest period you'll be offline, and see how much energy you'll gain in that time period. Give yourself about 100 max energy over that, to compensate for imperfections in your schedule. So say you regen about 60 energy an hour, and at max you're offline 10 hours; give yourself 700 max energy.

There's no point in having portions of your energy bar that go unfilled. Just remove a few lesser modules (cloaking, scanning, maybe a *couple* of NPC-Drop/Mission-Module defenses) to make space for energy when you're going to use some energy refills for NPCing or about to rank.

had a bit of a play round, improved to this so far...

Size Class: Goliath
Space: 1194 / 1197
Attack: 2525
Defense: 2254
Scan: 266
Cloak: 325
Cargo: 517 / 920
Upkeep: 628.2M
Konqul: Attack +20%
Miner: Mining +10%

Battles 17602 (Grand Master)
Player Kills 215
Deaths from Players 203
Non-Player Kills 517
Planets Found 107
Planets Occupied 48
Planets Captured 12
Missions Completed 522
Scans Performed 502
Successful Hacks 743
Successful Raids 187

Weapons Heavy Null Ray x6, Vortul Blast Phaser, Dominion Cannon x3, Combat Analyzer, Prototype Mech XV
Energy Intra-D Collider - Mark IV x3, Drannik Power Core x3, Isomorphic Repeater x4, Chron-Transistor, Omicron Injector
Sensors Sha'din AI Core x4, Voliir Modulator x3, AI Supercomputer
Hull Deep Core Neutronium Armor x5, Vortul Plating, Protean Armory
Shields T.O. Harmonic GigaPulser x4, Harmonic Resonator, Q-Phase Battery Array
Cloaking CipherBot x3, Kronyn Anomaly Engine, Proximity Jammer - Mark II, Gamma Channeler
Defenses Energy Nullifier - Mark III x4, Dark Complex Thruster x2, Dark Ring Thruster x2, Subspace Compressor, Thrust Stabilizer

Your Upkeep is quite high, but u still need improving, here's my stats:

Rank 222
Hull - 6465
Shield - 535
Size Class: Heavy Leviathan
Space: 1757 / 1757
Attack: 4674 (buffed) (4043 unbuffed)
Defense: 4659 (with 3x velox's)
Scan: 406
Cloak: 476
Cargo: 1830 / 2990
Upkeep: 263.4M
Zolazin: Cloak +40%
Saboteur: Sabotage

how do you get your attack that high yet have about half my upkeep? have you just used loads of RP and got tactical officers?

Lots of TOs

what do TO's do?