I've decided to post this to track my own progress but any and all suggestions for improvements are welcome.

Rank 400 Taltherian Excavator
Lords of Infinity
Combat Reputation: Insane

Battles 101413 (Grand Legend)
Player Kills 1339
Deaths from Players 119
Non-Player Kills 11244
Planets Found 751
Planets Occupied 82
Planets Captured 27
Missions Completed 251
Scans Performed 2417
Successful Hacks 481
Successful Raids 1244

Weapons: Heavy Null Ray x3, Dominion Auto-Blaster x2, Dominion Cannon - Mark III x2, Taltherian Sentry x2, Korteth Twin-Blaster x4, Composite Ray - Type S, Prototype Mech XV, Combat Analyzer
Energy: Intra-D Collider - Mark IV x3, Surge Plexus, XRP Battery Pack x4, Q-Pedd Ansible, Encephalon Core x3, Drannik Power Core, Q-Pedd Logic Servo x2, Wormhole Relay x4, F.A.T.H.E.R. x2, Silthion T-Plasma Hub, Omicron Injector
Sensors: Merged DataNode, Q-Pedd Emotion Simulator, Stryll Prey Tracker x2, AI Supercomputer
Hull: Perfect Fermionic Armor x2, Merged Nexus Armor, Scythe Plating x2, Korteth Plating x2, Protean Armory x3
Shields: Q-Phase Battery Array, Harmonic Resonator
Cloaking Gamma Channeler
Defenses: Sha'din Forcevoider x3, Dark Phase Engine x4, Silthion T-Phase Utricle, Trinity-Core Drive, Thrust Stabilizer

Space: 1062
Attack: 5503
Defense: 2729
Scan: 481
Cloak: 380
Cargo: 18170
Hull: 8584
Shield: 2779

Crew:
3274 Engineers
3223 Tactical Officers
1299 Helmsmen
1935 Scientists

Productions:
Mineral: 6614 units / hour
Artifact: 18033 points / hour
Research: 15741 / hour

What I'm working on:
10K unbuffed hull by the end of this week. That will be coming in the form of another scythe plating, protean arsenal upgrades and another perfect fermionic armour.
2 more Dominion auto-blasters. One of which should be added in the coming days.
20k/hr arti production. I have a few planets on my list for invasion. I also have some recently invaded planets bricked for temp fluxing.

Not a lot of progress yet but at rank 412 I have added the Protean arsenals, 1 more Dominion auto-blaster and my unbuffed hull is past 10k.

Rank 451 now. Not a lot of change except I have added a fully upgraded Tej-Sheel Data Drone and Cuniculus, Lepus Adjutant (currently rank 6). Artifact production has risen from 18033/hr to 25935/hr.

Currently working on adding Vortov (10 medal points needed) and Anubix (128 ship-bots needed) allies.

Rank 571 update - any suggestions for improvements are welcome.

Taltherian excavator

Decks - 1246
Attack - 9025
Defense - 5989
Scan - 959
Cloak - 1042
Energy - 8074 (95/hr)

Hull - 17106
Shields - 5946

Weapons - Heavy Thetacron Cannon x2 (both +100%), CK69 Assault Sentry (+75%), Galakis Pirate Ray (+80% and currently in the middle of this legion mission task), Dominion Auto-Blaster x3, Dominion Cannon - Mark III, Korteth Twin-Blaster x4, Composite Ray - Type S x3, Prototype Mech XV, Combat Analyzer

Defense - Trans-Entropy Drive - Mark III (+100%), Velox Thruster, Dark Phase Engine x4, Auto-Evasion Node, Trinity-Core Drive, Thrust Stabilizer, Subspace Compressor

Hull - Perfect Fermionic Armor x3, Scythe Plating x3, Korteth Plating x2, Protean Arsenal x3, Impact Absorber

Energy - Supernova Generator - Mark IV x3, Xathe Containment Hold, Surge Plexus x2, XRP Warp-Charge Pack, Siladon Mine Cores, XRP Battery Pack x3, Q-Pedd Ansible, Encephalon Core x4, Q-Pedd Logic Servo x2, Silthion T-Plasma Hub x3, F.A.T.H.E.R. x2, HyperChannel Relay x4, Chron-Transistor, Omicron Injector

Sensors - Merged DataNode (+500%), Tej-Sheel Data Drone (+500%), Q-Pedd Emotion Simulator, Voliir Modulator - Mark II x3, Tachyon Router, AI Supercomputer

Shields - T.O. Harmonic GigaPulser, Harmonic Resonator, Q-Phase Battery Array

Cloaking - Gamma Channeler

Allies - Anubix, AI Assaut Drone: Rank 44, Cuniculus, Lepus Adjutant: Rank 54, Sehrin, Bioship Ally: Rank 35, Vortov, Hired Mercinary: Rank 16.


Minerals 12322 units / hour
Artifacts 30865 points / hour
Research 24216 points / hour

I'm yet to use structural energizers on my mission planets and I haven't used the Trellith resequencers yet so production will go up by a few thousand in the next 24 hours.

I'll have access to the UST in the next 24 hours so will be doing some planet scanning very soon.

Any suggestions on more space efficient modules than what I currently have installed?

Looking good dude!

Don't your attack and (especially) defense seem low for someone who's on 30K Ap/hr? Even for an SSB? Have you ranked quickly then (what's your play time just out of interest)

Nice productions though - are you really lucky or a reset? My prods are like 12K at r.475

GigaPulser is a waste of space though, so you can take that out, and get the two remaining Veloxes, although I assume you're already working on that.

Maybe take out the Dark Phase Engines and put in another 1/2 Perfect Fermionic Platings (as you're defense is sufficiently low and ship small enough that you're SSB'ing anyways). The platings should be better.

Also lots of you're energy modules are deathly inefficient, so maybe think about uninstalling the likes of Encephalon cores, XRP packs, Logic Servo's and putting in another Heavy Theta, to boost attack. It'll be a small change to the total energy compared to the 358 gain in attack.

Yeah, probably. I'm about to hit 1 year (next week) so I have ranked quite quickly in order to gain medals and artifacts from specific mission chains (about to finish Trellith for example).



I've been pretty lucky with crysals and terraformers, I've also had some great help with planets.



Yeah, the gigapulser kinda ended up installed because I had that number of decks free and nothing else small enough that was useful.



The npc defences (forcevoiders and silthion utricles have already gone) are gradually being replaced with hull and velox thrusters. Growth through brackets is going quite well, I'll also be adding Kalvium platings soon so I think eventually I'll just remove the researched hulls completely. Switching the engines to platings in the interim probably isn't a bad idea though.



I'm in the process of researching Supernova generators (having just finished universal maintenance) so I will be shuffling reactors soon such that I gain space without losing any energy. The extra space will go towards installing some legion mission modules, I'm not sure which one(s) but I have most of them.

With regard to the extra 358 attack, since my previous update, I've added 80 from an autoblaster upgrade, 40 from a pirate ray upgrade, 2 ranks for Vortov and some TOs from prisoners. 358 can be made up without decks pretty quickly. Having said that, you can never have enough attack but you can also never have enough energy.

Thanks for the feedback.

Just a quick note - shield regen is a lot more useful than it sounds.

A tick, from either shield regen or energy, is what prompts updates for your screen.

More updates, faster response time, more success

Wondered if you already got your mission dyson and rifts ?

Got the dyson but not the rifts.