Day 8, 9 and 10

The collection of troops has now given me a 15mil planet with the shield on, so I feel reasonably protected against any threat for now. You'd think energy would be multiplied via the Shield modifier instead of the troops, guess they have their own little powerpacks that work faster with shield points.

I've continued my training of assaults which in all honesty is about as interesting as chucking coins down a well, but there are so many planets in newbie that there isnt much choice in the matter, plus its far cheaper doing it here than in Real, no 5k of all resources per planet over in that arena.

I've constructed level 1 of most of the mines, 2 hours per one seemed rather short to construct them but since its only giving me +1 on the resource tab it seems I've got a long way to go. Perhaps if I whipped the slaves more and fed them porridge perhaps I'd get a better production rate. Meh, maybe later.

I'll be taking planets for the foreseeable future for now, but at some point again I'll be stockpiling troops so I leave newbie with a reasonable defense. Up to 49 planets now, only 1 to go till I reach maximum, hope to get it soon though. Blowing up planets seems rather simple, each one comes with a big red button, nice to know the creator of the universe had a sense of humour.

About to go onto my 5th assault now, with 1.3mil troops being made near daily its practically a assault per day, so at least there will be something to do. Legions of soldiers dying for a completely pointless cause, apart from making my statistics screen look all bright and shiny. Come on round win!

Otherwise, not much else to go on, had a talk with a few players, catched up with old news, and decided that training of fighters/transports must be done soon at some point once I can get a training partner. Of course if I can get one is another question but we will see if anyone wants to try it.

And thus ends the diary for the day. Well, days.



(note: I was busy as of late and since I didnt have much to post, day 8 and 9 were generally skipped, unless you wanted to hear "I collected troops. That is all" on each post. You didnt want that, did you?)

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This is the end!
Still your need is driven on, driven on..
As we trigger one last bomb!

Gortozet 'm eus, gortozet pell
E skeud teñval tourioù gell
E skeud teñval an tourioù glav
C'hwi am gwelo 'c'hortoz atav

LOL @ bold

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hehehe i play hockey i stay up till midnight so barely anyone catches me off guard HA HA HA I WILL KILL AL IN CLASS B

Day 11 & 12:

Decided perhaps coupling up the days would be the best idea from now on, means I actually have something to put down.

With now being at 50 planets I've decided to look at other matters, such as now the inadequacy of the 150k transport I own to harvest. I was good at the start for basics, but since the planet quality went to x20 and now I have to collect from 49 planets, harvesting has become horrendous when the stack is more than 25k troops, so I have commissioned a similar vessel as a new harvesting vessel:

Designation: Transport T1000
Attack: 10,000
Defense: 50,000
Cargo Hold: 1,000,000
Hyperdrive and Piracy: Yes

It cost a whopping 1mil iron which from around 800k iron was purchased off the market at 20 per unit to create, since every time I get above 600k iron a new assault needs to be built bringing me back down to the base level again. The sheer number of x20's in the newbie galaxy makes gaining iron difficult as the exp gain goes up so quickly compared to the lower planets which only give 1% per takeover compared to the x20 defense planets which give 3% per planet.

I'm up to 6 fully trained assaults now, so making progress there, and someone thankfully bought 2 mil of my hydrogen at 7 per piece (THANKYOU whoever did that, was looking bad having that much) which provided the credits for the transport.

Planets are still being cleared, wasnt quite aware how many there was, I trained a entire assault and only moved 2000 from where I had started from initially in two directions, pretty dense cloud of them. With any luck, the clearance will help new players start up better.

About to put about 1.5mil vital onto my planets for harvest, get some extra troops for tomorrow to stack on my hq. Not really sure if I will attack tomorrow, may just boost some base defense since I only have 2 more days to go till my immunity collapses.

Not sure what I will do with that 150k transport, cant hand it to new players due to their own immunity and I doubt anyone past 14 days doesnt have one already. Oh well, I'll think of something.

And thats it! Day 11 & 12 over.

Extra addon:

For some fidgetty reason I keep probing my home base. I think its just bad ISP issues but I assume it jumps and since it hasnt loaded the planets/suns yet i assume its open space so I probe, and since it never jumped in the first place, blah wasted probe. Getting rather embarrassing actually, done it 4 times now. Need a better ISP!

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This is the end!
Still your need is driven on, driven on..
As we trigger one last bomb!

Gortozet 'm eus, gortozet pell
E skeud teñval tourioù gell
E skeud teñval an tourioù glav
C'hwi am gwelo 'c'hortoz atav

Day 13 to 24:

Probably the last one of the series, due to the end is near.

I've managed to take over 2000 planets, leaving me with many trained assaults and a fairly sized homeworld so far.

As it stands, I believe I will leave Newbie Galaxy on day 30 with:

A Grand total of defensive resources + Assaults trained value of (assaults rated at 1.3mil each):

47.88 Million Defensive resources (energy/troops)

With this, I should be able to construct at maximum two homeworlds, one at full defense, the other at half defense.

In comparison, sticking with the previous plan would have given me: 18.66mil Troops/Energy.

So at the end of the day this gambit worked im my favour, was able to get 50 planets quickly and increase my productivity to get more troops.

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Quick things to note why this gambit worked:

1) All non-defense resources captured and taken during the buildup and throughout the days were sold for credits on market for more planets. After this, the credits were used to buy more Vital so that more troops could be made.

2) As the planet limit was raised steadily, the more troops could be made to take more planets or defend with.

3) As assaults gained in experience while capturing it cost less and less to capture worlds. And since the assaults had material value, it was a worthwhile investment.

4) Vital was key to keeping my troop levels up, as planets were captured and the vital stockpile grew, it is NECESSARY to burn this up and make troops x2 as faster instead of selling it.

5) GREEN UNCOLONISED worlds found are free goodybags of resources, I have taken enough that I am over 1mil in energy purely from these planets (only way to keep tally). In effect, from uncolonised worlds, I have gained 1 million in every resource for free.

Another consideration that should be taken is this:

500k assaults have alot of room onboard, when they are finished and sent into deep space areas (Beyond the 12000 number), once there, they can also act as offworld storage facilities, in which alot of my non-def will be going on till I have a large enough homeworld to defend from. This gives me the ability to not look..."tasty" to attack apart from points alone. If a homeworld has ALOT of non-def resources on it, you are more likely to be attacked.

(Of course keep some uranium on your planet for defensive turrets, they fire that stuff, 1-2mil of it should do if you have a reasonable amount of them)

Any extra things I do in the next few days will alter this post or be added as Day 25-30. But in the greater sense, the objective has been achieved.

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This is the end!
Still your need is driven on, driven on..
As we trigger one last bomb!

Gortozet 'm eus, gortozet pell
E skeud teñval tourioù gell
E skeud teñval an tourioù glav
C'hwi am gwelo 'c'hortoz atav

nice. i didnt have nearly that much lol

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Kilel :im mad... someone took a bunch of resources from my assault ship!!
Branadon: it was me

20:52:09 | Caritas planet 0Santi has been captured by Branadon, The Cocoon.

This is a good guide for new players.

So heres a free bump

Thanks for the help!

I hit the jackpot where I took a player's HW and they had a crap load of iron

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Off we go into the wild blue yonder,
Climbing high into the sun;
Here they come zooming to meet our thunder,
At 'em boys, Give 'er the gun! (Give 'er the gun now!)
Down we dive, spouting our flame from under,
Off with one

where did you get gold for day 1

Poor bastard.... i hear hes looking to buy a house.

Sounds like the newb arena was easier back in the day, its quite boring now.

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Ten percent of nothing is, let me do the math here, nothing into nothing, carry the nothin'...