Ouch :eek: ... can you get your SB up high enough ?

Who is attacking you? I have made a couple of friends here (through the people that annihilated me, if you can believe that o_O) . Where are you located?

I have started taking over my little area =) There is only one other active player, and he isnt responding to my PM's for peace. MUAHAHAHAHA. BUILD AND CONCOUR!

I should have my third planet by tommorow *curses at her culture bar*

What are your coordinates ?

We can have a unofficial Canreef Alliance and provide funds if someone is in dire need as I suspect we may be too spread out to supply a fleet

my coordinate are x:y(-49/-57) and the id is ofcourse tkhawaja. i'm in the Alpha Haedus and Alpha Mekab systems.

I doubt it but I'm gonna give em one he** of a fight.

Alpha region sucks for begining =( there are a heck of a lot of long time players on there and they have long standing alliences. Now that I am in the middle of nowhere, well, I am in the middle of nowhere :P

Have you msg'd people in near by plannets to see if they can help you out? Always worth that last ditch effort.

I think an informal allience is an awesome idea until we get big and bad enough to start a formal one =)

Beth

There's only 1 other guy in the Alpha Mekab section left, I killed the others, and I already attacked him once. I doubt he's in the mood to help me out. :confused:

Ya I am about to do the reverce of that there are only 3 guys in my section one weak idle guy that I just launched a battle to and one other guy that has logged in a few times, i just sent him a message to see if he is around, if I don't get a message back I will blow him out of the water!!

is anyone else having issues loging in right now. It said server not available. Just wondering if it was me or now. mabie my boss found out I am playing this all day long and blocked the port :-)

" server not available " :frown:

just spam it, jeeze you guys never play EQ o_O spamity spam spam its just busy =)

so looks like the fixed the problems mid day yesterday so was on last night (won my first small battle!) and I was on today (and launched for my 2nd battle) but now when I try to log in it tells me that the site can not be found, humm looks like there are some big problems with there servers.

Oh well I hope they will fix them soon.

Now after my first battle I have gotten to player level one and I now have to learn all about SU and trade, I wish I could so some reading!! :bad-word: Oh well I guess that I have to spend some time away from the computer, what should I do......humm the fish store is calling got to go![/i]

The server is much better today ... drops out every now and then but overall pretty stable ... as far as SU and trade fire away any questions you have.

Cheers

Really you find the server better I still can't even find the domain astrowars.com Humm odd, well I did switch from Shaw to telus today but that should not effect it, although I will plug in my Shaw account and check.

As far as trade and I don't even know where to start that is why I need to do some reading.

Thanks

Joined a few days after you posted it Buk a Neer, I think ya owe some astro cash to all of us for getting you in the top referal list!

Server seems to still be down.

When some one figures out to whole alliance thing- ya we should start one.

Dave

Hey Dave ... Hope you are enjoying the game so far ... the referral thing at this point makes a difference of about 20 minutes on my culture each day but every little bit helps :cool: ... as to cash I am saving up for some artifacts and just got cruisers ... if anyone is in trouble though we should post back to this thread and help out if we can. Bummer on the server problems this weekend ... have not got to logon since this morning :frown: ... Hopefully they will get it figured out soon

Cheers

I just got back on today. Well I increased my bio levels and now I can see two other area's. Only 1 of the 8 players I can see is really playing so I sent him a message to say "hey lets work together" and he sent back a message saying okay but oops I sent 4 destroyers to you, (he ment to send them to the planet next to me) not a big deal I have 6 destroyers around that planet plus 8 starbases and 12 more destroyers around if I need them (just in other area's) so I think this guy will help me out a bit but looks like I am way farther then him though.

Any way good thing that the server is back up!!

Oh and buck.. thanks for the referal I know have my boss playing so that is all we do all day now! :-)

When attacking another active player what is the best way to go about it?

i.e. 6 pop 7 starbase planet with a lvl 4 science.

Do i send out 7 transports and 45 destroyers and get him the first time, or is it more advantageous to spread it out? Sending say 2 transports and 10 destroyers, then the full on fource if needed?

Thanks,

Beth

BTW physics @ 6, Math @ 2 ( working on it :P)

When attacking another active player what is the best way to go about it?

i.e. 6 pop 7 starbase planet with a lvl 4 science.


That might be a bit of a large bite to chew especially if it is his home planet ... he only has to raise the starbase to level 8 and you are toast ... not to mention he can also get every ship in his fleet to that planet in half the time it takes you to get there. Better in the early stages to either gobble up free planets and wait for attrition as players give up around you and go idle or increase Biology and look for those easy pickings in star systems close by. Also if you are going to take over the planet then send as many transports as is going to be needed right away because if you dont then he can then send a second wave of destroyers back to the planet ( again in half the time ) to wipe you out ... But this is just my opinion :mrgreen:

I already have three planets, killed both idle players and am just waiting on culture for the free planets. That darned culture!!!!! I will have another planet by tommorow when it hits 4.

pretty much nothing I can do but sit and wait for him to build up and attack me, or make the first move.

At what point is it not a large fish to fry?

Thanks,

Beth

I am assuming that you know this but you can attack someone and not take over there planet, so you don't really need to wait for your culture to get to 4 just to attack but if you know the guy has been working then you are better off to take over his planet as you will get all his stuff.

I guess what I am saying is that you could attack him if you know you will win and then just wait till your culture is higher to take over the planet. I think that would work.

PS sorry for the long message my brain does not thing right when I am at work :smile:

I would only go after a active player if I could send double what is needed to take the planet ... build up your starbases to discourage him looking at you for a meal and then go about getting your cybernets higher so your culture goes up faster.

Cheers

If you are attacking just to get to a higher player level is one thing but if you plan to take over the planet you better send the transports as well ... as I said before ... you may take down his SB with an attack but if he still has fleets on other planets he can send them and you wont have a clue they are coming till they hit you.

Cheers

he only has the one planet. I am not entirely he sure he knows what he is doing. The only concern I have is that he may have allies.

As far as I know, he doesn't even check his Pm's because the three I sent to him are still in my out box.

I want the XP and i would like the planet. He is the only other player left in the system I am in. Which would leave me room to expand before interfering in other people's game.

home planet has a star base of 9, second planet star base of 7, third star base of 2 (I just attained it yesterday)

I was planning on attacking in 2 days time with 7 transports and 45 destroyers, i have a +1 attack.

Let us know how you make out :cool:

since we are on the topic, some of you that have been playing this for some time why not tell us some of your great battle stories, I am sure we can all gather around the fire and have a listen!

More like stupid mistakes like going after a active player and him taking his SB up to 8 from zero and wiping me out ... on the other hand I have won my share of battles as well but now I am overly cautious :rolleyes: ... I now have planets in 5 different star systems and about to get a Basalt Monolith to help with culture levels ... If I am not the dominant player in a star system I build up my SB as high as possible as quick as possible so as to discourage attacks ... alot of players will have Physics & Math 15 now so there will be a few Cruisers and Battleships to deal with :eek:

How does this little stratagy sound? In my main Galaxy I have all players active all about the same level (from what I can tell) In a galaxy next door it looks like it has no active players- no one has loged in in nine days, zero action. So in my galaxy I have a soild planet build up with one other planet as well. I've sent a small attack force to the new galaxy to take over a non active player. I was then going to try and take over that entire galaxy as fast as possible (not very) because there seems to be no action from any player there. I would still keep adding to my main planet defences but spent most PP's in the non active galaxy.

Does that seem like a good thing to do? I was also going to contact the best player in my active galaxy to make some trade agreement.

Any comments?
Thanks
Dave

okay this makes me think about a few things...how do you spend PP that is earned on one planet on another?

You send a colony ship, half build value when they get there. But I'll build up planets PP points as well. I'll still spent points from main planet to take over planets in the other galaxy.

Dave

Dave ... That is the strategy I have employed so far and it is a good one ... send as many CS as you can because it is a long travel time outside of your star system so getting PP's there takes awhile.

Trevor ... There are 2 ways ... one is friendly sieging ( have not figured that out completely yet but you will need a friend to make that work as they have to siege your top planets but they dont send transports ) or use Colony Ships ( remember to send at least 2 or more as they wont disband if there is only one )

The way I look at it is that if it costs the same in PP's to take a planet up a level then I spend it there but if I can build CS and transfer PP's to a junior planet and get 2 or more levels for the PP's spent then thats what I do

eg. if main planet needs 288 PP's to go up a level like cybernet for example but I can use 240 PP's instead and ship them using 4 X CS to a newly acquired planet ( = 60 PP's ) ... then I could potentially raise my cybernets by 4 levels on the new planet with 9 PP's left over

So I have cybernets up by 4 for less than the cost of raising it by 1 on the old planet :cool:

Below is a email from a planet in my first galaxy, any advice?

"I am offering an alliance with the ghost people. Our race has been banished from our original star system and we are searching for our homeland. We hope you will be able to assist us. You will find that we will be of equal value to you.

Please consider. My fleet of battleships are waiting...

Commander for the ghost people,

ghostaura"

He is the biggest player in that galaxy
What to do? My fisrt contact.

Dave

Well I would think that all that you can do is trust someone like that, the crapy thing is if you tell him to %*ck it you will die, if you let him in you could die OR they could help you to victory. I would take a positive out look on it.

Let em in!

(then take all there A$ and send it to me :lol: )

Get him to define the terms of the alliance ... is it informal or formal ... what does he/she propose ? ... trade agreement ? ... help in battle ?

Cheers

And make him sign it in blood! :mrgreen:

I have physics at 13 and social at 10. everything else is at 4 or 6.

trying to get physics up to 15 :)

next to raise will be math I think. get math up to 15 or so. less battle losses...

I have 6 planets only :(

by late tomorrow or early next day I will have 7 tho. culture is sooo slow to rise.

I am only 2533 now...

OK, well I got my 6th planet last night, currently ranked #2314... :biggrin: Located at Beta Wesat -64/8 ... I am all for the canreef aliance.. :cool:

Who wants to do some trade agreements to get culture up faster??

Dave

Man trade aggreements look like the way to go but $10,000 A$ man that will take me forever!!

I am up for it