How exactly should I build up an 15x artifact planet as a rank 132?
I have obvi shields already researched but I don't think just slapping 12s and shields is the way to go.

What size is it

Very Large

Adumbrate Station Research: 1, Artifact: 1, Cloak: 200
Adumbrate Station Research: 1, Artifact: 1, Cloak: 200
Processing Core Mining: 1, Artifact: 1
Refining Lab Mining: 1, Research: 1
Relay Tower Research: 1, Artifact: 1
Hypergate Mining: 2, Research: 2, Artifact: 2
Spy Uplink Research: 1, Cloak: 40
Spy Uplink Research: 1, Cloak: 40
Space Elevator Artifact: 1, Population: 50
Space Elevator Artifact: 1, Population: 50
Tri-Phase Cutter Mining: 3, Attack: 300
Tri-Phase Cutter Mining: 3, Attack: 300
Heist Dispatch Station Mining: 2, Artifact: 2, Attack: 300, Attack: 10%
Hyperforge Fabricator Artifact: 12
Counter-Intelligence Nexus Research: 2, Cloak: 150
Obviation Barrier Defense: 1200
Obviation Barrier Defense: 1200
HyperSensor Satellite Research: 2, Artifact: 2
Obviation Barrier Defense: 1200
DM79 Datacenter Research: 6
Isolation Bureau Mining: 2, Research: 2, Artifact: 2, Cloak: 400
Domain Walker Attack: 600, Defense: 600
Domain Walker Attack: 600, Defense: 600
Barrier HyperNexus Artifact: 1, Defense: 600, Defense: 30%
Astrobiology Ward Population: 500, B Population: 50%
Polychoron Vault Mining Storage: 1000, Artifact Storage: 1000, Research Storage: 1000
Barrier HyperNexus Artifact: 1, Defense: 600, Defense: 30%
Galactic Concord Station II Mining: 2, Artifact: 2, Defense: 20%
Toxic Processing Plant Mining: 3, Artifact: 2, Attack: 30%
Interrogation Stronghold Research: 2, Defense: 300
Quantum Hydro-Meliorator Artifact: 1, Population: 100
Silthion Gas Vesicle Research: 2, Cloak: 150

This is my usual setup for very large planet with good production and decent bonuses for my artifact planets. There are a couple of planet structures that do not give artifact production, but that's just there to hide, defend and keep while I upgrade my planets with racial abilities. You can squeeze more things if you are some how able to replace the obviation barrier defense with something that adds more defense for the space used.

These (with possible exception of the last and the CI Nexus for cloak) are horrible additions to a 15x ap planet. Why are you adding rp and mp structures? I understand the defense but really that only holds off lower ranks - but in that case a Flux Probe is a better friend. Better to focus research on planet cloak and get to the +800 structures as soon as you can.

And please save your vaults for rp or mp planets. Maxed AP should be just that = AP!

And if your Talth it is much better to find Massive or VM to uplift as with VL you just don't have enough space to get good production and all the cloak you need.

have to agree with much of this list of structures NOT to include, but the SGV is still good at 150 cloak per space. the TPC's i would only include if you are putting on an orbital stabilizer after using a reality transfuser on the planet. the rest should all be replaced with %cloak structures - ergosphere filter, meta-tuned jammer, resonance inhibitors, polaron emitter, litheor core tunnel, bioship landing platform (after boosting size to VM), and chron shifters.


PCVs are okay to be used on any planet that you are not max.cloaking. 15x arti planets are definitely NOT targets for polychoron vaults. the only exception to storages on 15x or better would be the scruuge hoarding vaults, or t.o. harvest vaults (again, if you have the post-transfused orbital stabilizer).

Terraforming devices will just be raining in or popping out more often as people become more efficient npc killers. Eventually the main modules will end up being the most efficient ones for all productions that probably go for 1:1 production for space to production respectively. Just simply having artifact production is just simply not efficient for endgame gameplay and doing legion missions because people often have high upkeeps and need a lot of exotic matter.

I'm adding those for later because sooner or later npcing is going to go by quicker and I might have a higher chance of getting terraformer devices from npcs like T.O Troop Carrier. Sooner or later all planet productions are going to be upgraded with terraformers in the endgame. The purpose of having these mods that you see unecessary are essential to high rank and endgame production that benefits when keeping up with missions and keeping up with ship upkeep for all ship builds.

Well decided to help out so here are the stats:

Iehold
Very Large Desert Planet
Uncommon

Mining 7x Mega Rich 280.1728125 units/hr
Artifact 15x Mega Rich 1022.013531 units/hr
Research 12x Mega Rich 361.179 units/hr

The build:

Zolazin Analyzer Research: 1, Artifact: 1 Demolish
Zolazin Analyzer Research: 1, Artifact: 1 Demolish
Hypergate Mining: 2, Research: 2, Artifact: 2 Demolish
Uldri Anomaly Crystal Research: 1, Artifact: 1, Cloak: 200, Bonus Research: 5% Demolish
Auric Lepus Drone 2.0 Artifact: 3, Attack: 400, Defense: 400 Demolish
Scruuge Hoarding Vault Artifact: 3, Artifact Storage: 4000 Demolish
Ergosphere Filter Cloak: 150, Cloak: 20% Demolish
Uldri Recovery Capsule Mining: 2, Research: 1, Population: 500 Demolish
Uldri Spacial Marker Mining: 1, Artifact: 1, Defense: 300 Demolish
Adaptive Spire Artifact: 2 Demolish
Adaptive Spire Artifact: 2 Demolish
Intraphasic Hoveroid Bonus Production: 5% Demolish
Orbital Stabilizer Artifact: 1, Bonus Mining: 7% Demolish
Quantum Accelerator(100% Upgrade) Artifact: 4, Cloak: 300 Demolish
Quantum Accelerator(100% Upgrade) Artifact: 4, Cloak: 300 Demolish
Scruuge Calibration Chamber Mining: 1, Artifact: 1, Cloak: 400 Demolish
Cognizant Omniforge Mining: 1, Research: 1, Artifact: 1, Bonus Production: 5% Demolish
Shrine of B'elna Artifact: 1, Cloak: 300, Bonus Artifact: 2% Demolish
Alarri Compound Turret Mining: 2, Artifact: 1, Attack: 15% Demolish
Alarri Signaling Drone Mining: 1, Artifact: 1 Demolish
A.I. Emotion Core Research: 2, Artifact: 1, Attack: 500 Demolish
Antimatter Drill Mining: 1, Artifact: 1, Attack: 400 Demolish
Dark Null Beacon Defense: 1000, Cloak: 300, Defense: 10% Demolish
Bralkir Altar Mining: 1, Research: 1, Artifact: 1, Invasion Defense: 2500 Demolish
War Foundry Plant Mining: 1, Research: 1, Artifact: 1, Attack: 500, Attack: 20% Demolish
Scruuge Hovertank Artifact: 1, Attack: 15%, Defense: 15% Demolish
Quantum Hydro-Meliorator Artifact: 1, Population: 100 Demolish
Rikthar's War Forge Mining: 1, Artifact: 3, Attack: 10% Demolish
Adumbrate Station Research: 1, Artifact: 1, Cloak: 200 Demolish
Adumbrate Station Research: 1, Artifact: 1, Cloak: 200 Demolish
Isolation Bureau Mining: 1, Research: 1, Artifact: 1, Cloak: 200 Demolish
Crimson Rift Aperture Artifact: 2, Attack: 800, Cloak: 400 Demolish
Polaron Emitter Research: 1, Cloak: 100, Cloak: 15% Demolish
Silthion T-Plasma Vesicle Research: 3, Artifact: 1, Cloak: 300 Demolish
Galactic Concord Station Mining: 1, Artifact: 1, Defense: 10% Demolish
HyperSensor Satellite Research: 2, Artifact: 2 Demolish
Processing Core Mining: 1, Artifact: 1 Demolish
Space Elevator Artifact: 1, Population: 50 Demolish
Relay Tower Research: 1, Artifact: 1 Demolish
Space Elevator Artifact: 1, Population: 50 Demolish
Toxic Processing Plant Mining: 3, Artifact: 2, Attack: 30% Demolish
Voliir Transgenic Lock Mining: 1, Research: 2, Artifact: 1, Invadeprotection: 1 Demolish
Lepus Bio-Mech Gateway Mining: 2, Research: 2, Artifact: 1, B Population: 40% Demolish
Bioship Gene Lab Research: 1, Artifact: 1, Population: 200 Demolish
Barrier Nexus Artifact: 1, Defense: 300, Defense: 20% Demolish
Barrier Nexus Artifact: 1, Defense: 300, Defense: 20% Demolish
Captured T.O. Harvester IV Mining: 2, Artifact: 1, Population: 1000 Demolish
Astrobiology Ward Population: 500, B Population: 50%


Passive Ability
Defense 2100
Cloak 3892

Reg stats:

Planet Guards Legion Bonus Total
Defenses: 8818 0 114% 18871
Attack: 5901 0 114% 12628
Cloak: 12993 0 114% 27805
( and yes the low ranks would say .. " such low def but you guys are better off with high cloak like the one on this planet .. cause no one playing this game has over 27k scan .. so if my planet gets scanned and stolen Dan will return it to me and the thiefs will lose their pflux, credits and invade timer for a day)

and thats how u build a VL x15 artie planet

Max scan being 32k...

dang .. i guess i have been gone for a while .. must up the cloak then

BTW 32k is max/ max with everything .. which not many ppl have those artie no more

regular repeatable with maxed mods its like 25.9k scan ( This is Kirk's math )

Didn't he say he was level 132? Thinking many of those structures don't exist in his world. IF's and some minor cloak structures probably do. Best advice would be don't talth up any planet under VL and later probably under Massive. There's too many to select from and with talth and terraformers, you really don't want to lose out on spacing. Might even be prudent to take a really long term view and wait to find/buy/trade for planets with moons to max space. At lower levels you planet is building up to be eaten by a mid or high rank who will use it for page 20 of their collection. AT low rank i would suggest saving your limited efforts of Talth for worthy planets. Since you can basically 'up' one a month to max or close, that would /should be your goal. Scan or search, find a good one...talth and/or terra it up..cloak, then swap out for arti stuff as you gain stuff worth using. IMHO

If I was going to just post a rather statistically unimpressive planet based on size and richness that provides production far beyond what the planet deserves (short of it being a project planet) like listed above, then I would just leave this here and give a list of the limited, and mostly unextractable structures I put on this unbuffed S 2x Terra that is my rift-to-be, but I won't. Because that isn't that helpful for your everyday VL 15x, nor is it helpful for a rank 132.



For an average VL 15x planet, if your not looking to put too much into it...I crafted up this build for a friend a couple months back. Most of these should be accessible to you, since it was crafted for someone of sub-rank 400 at the time. This is more of a place holder build as you continuously get better artifacts to tweak the build. It makes an easily guaranteeable 600 APH for non excavators and holds its own enough to protect itself long enough for the red alert to pop up if someone attacks it.

Left most number is space used.
18 Hyperforge Fabricator Artifact: 12
18 Hyperforge Fabricator Artifact: 12
1 Adumbrate Station Artifact: 1, Research: 1, Cloak: 200
1 Adumbrate Station Artifact: 1, Research: 1, Cloak: 200
2 Hypersensor Satellite Artifact: 2, Research: 2
1 Galactic Concord Station II Mining: 2, Artifact: 2, Defense: 20%
2 Toxic Processing Plant Mining: 3, Artifact: 2, Attack: 30%
2 Isolation Bureau Mining: 2, Research: 2, Artifact: 2, Cloak: 400
2 Heist Dispatch Station Mining: 2, Artifact: 2, Attack: 300, Attack: 10%
1 Hypergate Artifact: 2, Research: 2, Miining: 2
1 Processing Core Chassis Artifact: 1, Mining: 1
1 Relay Tower Chassis Artifact: 1, Research: 1
1 Space Elevator Chassis Artifact: 1, Population: +50
1 Space Elevator Chassis Artifact: 1, Population: +50
1 Barrier Nexus Artifact: 1, Defense: 300, Defense: 20% (You can choose to use HyperNexus instead)
1 Barrier Nexus Artifact: 1, Defense: 300, Defense: 20%
1 Domain Walker Attack: 600, Defense: 600
1 Domain Walker Attack: 600, Defense: 600
1 Astrobiology Ward Population: 500, B Population: 50% (To give you a chance to respond if your online and it's attacked)

Total Units: 44 units AP, 9 units RP, 10 units MP

Passive Ability
Defense 2100 <-- A must, and shouldnt be hard
Attack xxxx <-- Optional
Cloak xxxx <-- For just an average VL 15x build thats extremely easy to replicate, Id advise against cloak if you can't spare enough for your projects. But if you have a ton spare, feel free to max it to 3.9k cloak. Itll still come out to about 10k after legion bonus.

This build is not meant to prevent people from invading your planet while you were offline. Quite frankly, if you are offline, nothing will stop a legion from invading your 15x VL arti planet short of a pre-bricked planet with XRP inhibitors to prevent sabs. But doing that prevents you from getting any production. The point of this build is to give you enough time to respond to any potential attackers if you happen to be online.

All of these artifacts are extremely easy to acquire and only require a half decent CTL, having done CTL research, and at least tapping bases.

Based on 100% Legion Bonus (50 seems more typical than 60 members anyways)

Population 1140
Attack at least 4290
Defence 11405 or 13385
Cloak 1600


Things to look out for to steal and extract to improve this build over time are:
Adaptive Spires
Intraphasic Hoveroids
Zolazin Analyzers
Crimson Rift Apertures
Quantum Accelerators
Orbital Stabilizers (only if planet has LM, SM or Rings)
Scruuge Hovertanks
Cognizant Omniforges
Litheor Transmutative Locators
Temple of Reflections
Bioship Genelabs
Ardent Consulates
Bane Generators
Lepus Drones
Antimatter Drills
Scruuge Hoarding Vaults
Any cloak +% structure if your going to turn it into a max cloak

Very solid advice all round from TrinityThree, especially given the OP's rank