So just wanted to see what the more experienced ppl in GL thought about meh ship and what I could do to make it better. So....stats....

IHeartless
Rank 169
Konqul Fixer
Combat Reputation: Insane
Battles: 34381 (Legend)
Kills: 2031
Deaths: 113
NPC Kills: 761
Planets Found: 365
Occupied: 42
Planets Captured: 20
Missions Completed: 163
Scans Performed: 908
Hacks: 334
Raids: 1002

Ship Stuff

Size Class: Leviathan
Space: 1427/1501
Attack: ~3300 (not exactly sure cuz I have a crimson amp on right now)
Defense: 2965
Scan:201
Cloak: 329
Cargo: 4684/5030
Upkeep: 725.9M

Hull: 9832
Shield: 873
Energy: 807 (with relays)

1501 Decks
5030 Cargo
130 Engineers
159 Tactical Officers
108 Helmsmen
772 Scientists

Weapons and Stuffs

Weapons: Dominion Cannons M3 x4, Heavy Null Ray x6, Vortul Blast Phaser x4 (Offline: Atmospheric Decimator)
Defense/Shield: Auto Evasion Node, BM50 Convoy Shuttle x3, Dark Complex Thrusterx3, Dark Ring Thruster, Energy Nullifier M3 x4, Velox Thruster, Harmonic Resonator
Hull: Biomemetic Sealer M2 X3, Perferct Fermonic Armor x5, Protean Armory x3, Scruuge Hypernode, Vortul Plating x2
Energy: Drannik Power Core x4, Dark Energy Core M4 x3, Transconduit x4, Omicron Injector (Offline Surge Plexus x3)
Everything Else: AI Supercomputer, Cipherbot x3, Quantum Jammer M2, Stryll Hunt Sensor, Styrll Prey Tracker, Stryll Transponder, Zolazin Jammer

Planet Production

Minerals: 1809/hr
Arifacts: 2116/hr
Research: 2412/hr

Research Trees

Thetacron Radiation 0/3
Isomorphic Entanglement 0/1
Meta Chron Fields 0/3
Quantum Jamming 2/3
Syncopated Phase Matter 0/3
Exergonic Inversion 0/3
Continuum Analysis 0/3
Stellar Engineering 0/3 (Working on this ATM)
Sub Quantum Logistics 0/3

Medals: 335

So yeah...Sorry if this is just a really big wall of text, and I would appreciate it if you guys would look it over and give me some advice.
My plan right now is to hack and do elite NPCs and stuffs until I hit 230, then do the Taltherian Missions Chain.
A few questions I have are when should I stop putting rank points into decks and pretty much what you guys think I should do with my ship/production and about me plans. And TY again if you actually read the entire thing LOL.

unless you start pounding out the engineers, dont bother trying to do the talth chain with that tiny bit of energy.

403,850 energy is whats required... guess how long that will take with sub par relays and ~1K energy...

I waited until i had 4-5K energy, and about 20-30 tris/cubes, and about 10-15 gp refills as well... its not a chain you breeze through unless youre a pure energy build.

^Agree with Icarium big time. I spent about 45,000 energy to get a little over halfway through the 1st mission of Talth over the course of about 30 ranks or so before moving on to something else.

Also, I wouldn't use any rank points on ship size past 2,000 decks personally, but I know a lot of players that quit earlier and they will get better usage from their ship bots than I will later on.

I'll agree on the decks. Not that my ship is the strongest out there by any means, but I've been using all my rank points on t.o.'s since 1900 decks, and its been helping big time. Guess I should invest in engineers too, soon....

K thanks guys

More AP/h (same goes for research and mining but AP should be main), and stop adding decks with prisoners or rank points.Use only ship bots or reynards for instance (from lazuli parts).Use the prisoners and rank points to increase your crew number (TO and engineers only).

Absolutely recommend to stop putting the majority (if not all) rank points into deck and pump up your Engineers and TOs. The biggest thing that will be a pitfall / concern when you do this is that you need your artifact production to help pickup the slack with ship bots, so I'd recommend focusing on increasing your all your productions, but pay special attention to artifacts.

I'd be happy to go into more detail on legion comm =)