Neutronium is now finished. I will be switching away from Aerlen Fixer soon, since I have not been utilizing the racial buff. Is there any path that I should approach in research, or ship build, and/or any issues I need to fix? Any input is appreciated
Thanks ahead of time!

From a pvp viewpoint, you might need a little defense.

Currently, your defense is 306 and your damage cap 392. An enemy ship needs about 2,500 attack to hit you between 295-388 damage with each shot, which, at our rank range, is becoming more common. Assuming you have around 7k hull, it would around 100 energy for a ship with decently high attack to take you down. While it's a bit more than most people right now would be willing to spend pvping, your setup might be risky later on if you want to keep your death count low.

(if you have way more hull than that, then disregard this post xD)

Thanks I have about 6k hull, and will begin to add on defense as decks go up.

Like I tell everyone, unless every time you log in your energy is at full, you don't need reactors. If you can take some of those off and can keep ahead of your recharge you can use the extra space for defence

dont need them on all the time. still need them for when you rank up

i dont run reactors at all

and yes get the defense up, later down the line you may look at adding some cloak mods, having a low damage cap is nice an all but if someone can frequently crit you, it becomes rather meaningless. Also as a head up my sister in law is telling me that people frequently have nexus grids at around level 30, giving the crave for research based legions the lower ranks are going to have alot stronger showing than when I was down there, you'll need to be prepared when those people start climbing up the ranks.

and yes glass cannon works well at lower levels. especially when combined with low damage cap. (from experience. did it without really thinking about it)

need to add def as you go up though. dont really remember but id start with the npc mods. might not be as efficient as your researched ones as you are way ahead. they will be cheap though.

There was someone on my Battle Tab yesterday, they had 4 Dominion Cannons, 3 Protean Armories, and 3 Deep Core Neutronium platings as a Konquol Fixer at rank 40 , and I thought I was doing good with Q phased plating

I think that would be the "bigger fish in the sea" that mom always talks about

lol im rank 85 now,
but i also had deep cores at rank 40...

and did you have them installed at rank 40?
I fail to be impressed by people whos ships are owned by other people.

Good mix already, nearly full upon logging on in the morning, with a bit of space if I oversleep . Thanks

Harder to see a person with 8 researched weapons installed. Decent weapons (Singularities+), mind.

oh i dont run weapons, just hull, my attack comes from my crew alone and I do well if I do say so my self . I have a couple of Dominion Cannon II in my cargo waiting for rank 50 and I am about half way to the third one, only 12 more ranks to go .

what are your goals? do you want to be an energy bassed ship or a pvper/npcer? either way you're gonna need just a lil more defense. I say until you have good defense modules researched then stay aerlin just to utilize that buff until you don't need it that much anymore.

I will be transitioning from PvPing to NPCing at around rank 150, so I will still maintain a solid combat build. Thanks!

+1 for this. PvP active as well as NPC. Best way to go to.
Player Kills 3814
Non-Player Kills 9412

Right. Mr. Football.

First off, your defence is very, very, low. Particularly as you're an Aerlen, so your racial boost is being completely wasted. You're relatively easy to kill (a minor energy sink) for the average rank 100, though it'd possibly take a repair or two. Bring your defense to 900.

Next, I'm pretty sure that all that attack isn't actually as impressive as it may seem. Whilst the 3000 attack stat is nice to have and all that, the declining return on attack means that some of that is probably being wasted. Take off a couple off antiprotons (2,500 attack is still a very nice stat at 100 - a lot of 200 do not even have that high of an attack stat) to supplement your defense.

Next, change from Aerlen Fixer --> Konqul Fixer/Excavator. Whilst I'd argue that excavator is the better choice, you seem to like fixer. Also, this would result in you having almost exactly the same attack stat even with the loss of 2 weapons.

Finally, what's your "back in my day"/"long road to get there" medal at? Your reasonably low productions combined with the strong research makes me wonder how long you've been playing.

In total, I've been here about 400 days. It's been approximately 4 months since I reset, half of which, I was out of country and could only dump resources during. My funds are doing ever better as the value of minerals continues to increase, as is my research, which is why I will be adding ONLY artifact planets for the current time being. I admit that my attack is very low, and I have decided to follow what you have advised, taking my defense up to ~1200 while my attack remains above 2500. Production is of priority, seeing that I am being told of it's lowly state, with heavy emphasis on artifacts.

I am not proud of my "football" days, and those have long since ended. I realize that it fetches me no benefit, and it is far more worthwhile to steal planets that I will actually use.

I appreciate the response, I am liking the new build!

Mind posting a new picture of stats? im curious to see it perhaps use it as a template for mine.

I'll try to get an updated version to you soon