I'd love to hear the strategies employed by those who reached 1000 levels. How long have you played? How do you ensure a strong ranking ship? How do you survive under increasing costs of upgrades? And how do you accomplish so much in so little amount of time?

I'm genuinely curious, as I've never levelled quickly in any of my games. What's your secret? It astounds me that you level so quick and yet stay so relatively strong.

I think the secret is fast ranking mixed with HUGE arti production.
Fast rank with energy and split the points on energy and attack whilst letting your artis handle your decks and defense.

Or they just bought their way there.

And they get the huge arti production from npcing the best way to speed rank, from the npcing they get terraformers and planet slots for more arti production, they then repeat this cycle many times.