Can we see you rmods please? Yes, I will post them.
-You'll want to get tier one of Obviation Fields, ifmyou already have well done I'm just going off what I can see. Yes, I have done Tier I.
-Get your fermionics, it may be a jump in your upkeep but it's a good excuse to get your mining up, an underestimated resource, NPC for a little perhaps to get some purifiers to afford the jump in upkeep in some of the research trees. Gotcha. I think I'll be able to afford the upkeep anyways though.
-You may also want to start looking into gettingmyou base research up so that you can donate to higher level bases and unlock the UST. Alrighty, I will do that soon. How high up should I go?
-Put some points into engineers for a while, you can't anything without energy and it's never a bad thing to have a surplus. Already on that, I'm hoping to autorank through the Talth chain.
-As I pointed out earlier you should get yourself some more hull, the best way to do that is with arti production and getting a steady influx of those Durtanium Brackets. Yep.... I'm trying.
-So in summary you mostly want to be working on getting your energy and hull up and also building up your mining for the next set of mods you'l want to build. Aye, aye cap'n!

-On the base research go as high up as you feel comfortable with, again it also lets you accumulate mining for the next set of modules with that huge jump in upkeep. I think I might get the UST...
-I wouldn't recommend auto-ranking through the Talth chain, you can if you want but auto-ranking a hundred or so levels will mean your ship will be wet tissue paper. Yeah, that's true.... but then I can rank extremely slowly for a couple of months and I'll be just as well off.
-Get the rest of your Dominion Cannons as soon as possible, make it a priority, they are such a good mod. I am working on my Engineers right now while freeze ranking. Once I get enough engineers, I will kill people until R230.
-Take off those shield recharge mods and all the cloaking you have on too, they're just wasting space and you can find something much better to put in it's place. I am using the cloak mods right now, I am hacking while freeze ranking.
-Possibly equip another energy nullifier if you have the room after doing the above. I am working on saving up enough ship-bots to do just that.

basically, as i said in the legion chat, go for the trans temp nacelles, fermionic plating, the other 3 dark complex thrusters, and null rays.

Make your D cannons a top priority. I am trying to get my ship combat-ready so I can do just that.

If you want some goals for when to get certain mods, I switched to Heavy Nulls at roughly rank 250 (still rocking them), Perfect Fermionics at roughly 300 (still got these), Intra-D Colliders can't remember, probably at 250ish (just upgraded as they aren't that bad for their upkeep), Energy Nulls Mark III are really nice and affordable. Add Trans-Temps when you can but don't stress it, as having 8 defenses makes your ship really bulky (I've got both of these defenses still). I'm currently rank 467 and run a cost-friendly ship build btw. Alright, thanks! I will try to go ahead and get those out of the way.

Like said before, ditch the shield recharge and scrap any you get in the future until you get the TeraPulsers. Uninstall the cloak whenever you aren't hacking. I am freeze ranking at 212 and hacking right now. It makes sense to wait until the TeraPulsers.... I don't know why I didn't.

As far as research goes, try to hit the goals I listed above and make +12s a top priority as well. They will be extremely expensive at 1st, but well worth it. Whenever you need a break on a certain tree or feel like you should scan soon, research into scanners. In regards to base research...I think you should stop at Hybrid Theory Dynamics for the CT Lab. If you really want to donate to a level 5 base, then Sub-Quantum Logistics isn't bad. If you really want the UST, then that's a good 26 mil from Sub-Quantum Logistics and a heck of a lot of RP. Thanks for giving me the numbers on how much RP it would actually take to research the UST! Oh, and I guess I will try to get +12s soon.... I'll have to save up quite a lot for those.

Anyways, I hope that helps a bit. Best of luck to ya and enjoy the game I believe it will.

I am currently a rank 161 Vygoid Excavator (soon to be Kronyn Excavator). Here are my current stats, and I am planning to freeze rank soon to get more decks, attack, defense, and better planets (Kronyn).

1575/h Artifact

Successful Raids 112

Criticism is welcome if there is a reason for it!

If I need to add anything else, such as what I have researched, please tell me.

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Erm..... Check on the second page. I have updated it since then, as that was about 3 months ago.

EDIT: My artifact is now at 6019/h.

Erm..... Check on the second page. I have updated it since then, as that was about 3 months ago.

EDIT: My artifact is now at 6019/h.

even so still not beneficial for you to freeze rank. you arti production is still tiny and thats only hurting you long run.

Question.... how is it hurting me? I am trying to get to where PvP is a feasible option. Also, I am in a legion that gives out 60k AP a day.

I think what they are referring to is planet slots, if you don't rank you don't get planet slots to fill up with artifact planets.... result being that your artifact production doesn't grow. Anyone who ranks enough and is able to colonise more artifact planets will be able to out do your strength gains as they will be getting more rescued prisoners.

My recommendation is to rank based on planet slots and the planets you have available to you on your scans. If you want to slow/freeze rank only do that when you have no artifact planets to colonise or invade(when you have already colonised/invaded them). Once you go on a scan run and find artifact planets you will need to rank enough to have the planet slots for them though. it's finding the right speed to rank and scan.

I understand that you are trying to help me, but I would like it if you would answer my question, which is, "How does freeze ranking with my AP/h HURT my ship?"

said very well.



with your current productions you probably get what? 2 prisoners? on a good day? Yep, that sounds about right.
thats 12 attack a day. Yep.
if you ranked 1x a day you could almost double that.
not to mention adding more planet slots and arti planets too.