why, whenever I go to the battle screen, are all my opponents always so much higher than me? usually 5-15 levels...

I had never noticed before (because I like to mind my own business), but you're right. Most of mine are 20-40 levels higher than I am.

I mean... I know it's supposed to be a challenge...

... but that would be risking anialation! It's like shooting pop-guns at them. Like a bee stinging a lion... I would only aggravate them and invite certain death.

My scans are barely high enough to see half of their components.
What I can see is that I am outgunned by a wide margin.

It's bad enough that the majority of them are dangerous, harmful or deadly

you just have to be patient, there aren't that many players on GL but eventually the game will grow.

And that's supposed to make me feel better?!! Just means there will be even more players out to get me!

Huh sounds like DOO....


Or you could get some attack/defesne and then possible be the guy to do it to them.

Sounds good... except I'm disabled all day.

and how is that stopping you?

As soon as I rank up, my ship is automatically reparied... and I get disabled again. It's a no-win situation until I get off this asshole's radar.

yes but how is being disabled stopping you. Okay you got disabled, rank up more.

It's a lot faster to rank up when you're not disabled. Right now all I can do are teeny missions that give me a whopping 27 XP at a time.

for how much energy? its not a matter of XP output its a matter of the energy/XP ratio. if you get 27 XP for 1 energy thats a heck of alot better then a mission that gives you 200 XP for 100 energy.

The only missions I can do while disabled are low energy ones that cost 16 or 20.

again its not the energy cost specificly, or the XP return specificly. Its how much XP do you get for each energy spent. and even if for some reason being disabled doesnt let you do missions with better energy/XP ratios, just save up energy, repair, do em before you can get disabled and get disabled.

yes, that was sort of my point... trying to avoid becoming some annoying speck on someone's radar screen... I feel for you

however, the more I level up, it seems the higher level these opponents become... like a moving target... i'm still the bottom fish.

when I was lower level, at least some of the opponents were lower or a similar level. I had a chance then.

ok heres the solution to your problems either..
A: research/get some attack/defesne modules
B: research/get some cloaking
It may take a few days before you can get good enough moduels to make enough of a diffrence but youll get there and then youll be fine.

and I keep doing that, and in doing so, I go up in levels, and so do they....

... as I said... its a moving target... and the level gap is getting larger than when I was lower rank

ok heres a short list of what rank does not equal...
Attack
Defense
Cloaking
Scanning
Decks
Crew
Ship Strength
Legion
Organazation Affiliation
Module Strength
Planetary Production
Artifacts
Planets


This is a RPG and because of that people's ships are not all outfitted the same way, because of this someone can easily be 30 ranks above you and be weaker then you. This being said ranks arnt useless but they do not equal power in any direct fashion. All in all with the current system if you focus on energy(so that you can rank up quicker) you will be behind when it comes to PVP, this is the price of specialization. Which is one of the core concepts of RPGs.

IMO the guys appearing on your battle list should be based of Ship Strength instead of rank as that is a much more accurate indication of power. I also think that XP rewards from Battles should be based of Ship Strength for the same reason.

So if a guy is 30 ranks above you and has a Ion cannon but you have a Plasma cannon your not going to attack him?(Im asking collision and the other guys, coth)