My point is; ever since the release of GTC, we have been presented another method of generating credits. I have earned ample amounts of credits via selling artifacts through the GTC when they are in demand. CTP, quantum flares, Dark pyramids etc

I personally believe at low ranks, mining isn't very useful, while you inevitably will need mining later on, it is best that you colonize research and artifact planets. Colonizing lots of mining planets will take up many of your planet slots and penalize the other two productions.

I have generated up to 200 Billion Credits via GTC ever since its release, that's how i have been able to reach 95 Bill (140 Bill now ), not mining which barely gives one billion a day for me. It is best that you take advantage of this opportunity and rely more on selling artifacts and goods via GTC and allow more room to maximize your artifact and research production. That's how I've been able to push my artifact higher than usual, i have no dysons or rift planets, I'm only 4/10 for mission exotic, but 28/55 planets i own are artifact and only 7 of them are mining.

I just want to say a couple things.

At rank 714 I still see people without traps, it might becuase they forgot to set them, legionmates repaired them or someone set off a halcyon and 2 hrs went by before they came on. Either way nulls not exactly necessary for pvp. Pvp in general is not too much harder at 700+ than 200+ the only real difference is that it takes a little more energy and you get alerted far less...like you have to go out of your way to smash someone's ship in before they even consider retaliating.

Don't freeze at 209 and mylarai...it is just a terrible idea. Get up to 230 and do the taltherian chain, slow rank using it and hacking/mylarai ability until you finish then freeze. The opponents won't get much more difficult and it will take you months to finish with your energy cap. This way you are increasing your mining and eventually you can switch to taltherian excavator then get a decent artifact production. Maybe the planets you are selling will give you enough ctp to buy an okay one and you can fill your slots as you go. As Nova stated the GTC is a good way to make credits...timing consuming though, but done properly you can make a small fortune and pay for new planets that way.

That is exactly what I'm going to do in 17 ranks.And I don't sell my artifacts on the GTC because I use the CTL every day to make plasmas and hypersatelites...

Hey people, he's an AU, they have a nutcase, highly inefficient leader who does solid freezes on single ranks for half a dozen months at a time, what would you expect from their members? Your logic and numbers won't make sense to him lol.

Nice

Anyway, I have seen both sides. I slow-ranked for a month (gained 3 ranks) and fast-ranked (20 in one week). I prefer fast-ranking, but they both have benefits. One is beter for PvP, the other is better for missions and NPCing.

FTFY.

Also, don't spend your time as a Mylarai - mining is one of the easier stats to boost - uplift toxics, or buy one from someone. Spend your time boosting artifacts - more stat points, more things to sell in the GTC. I know, I know, I can't tell you how to live your life, but the goal of rank freezing is ostensibly to build power. You want to be building it as efficiently as you can.

That said, it's a terrible strategy that cripples your production by capping it at pathetically low levels for months.

I've made one 15x MR Toxic and currently on my second one which is now 4x MR. And that's just within a month or so. NPCing Harvesters is way faster than mylarai cooldown. Then again you're slow/freeze ranking.

Good point

What I MIGHT be doing.

I had a couple of reasons for doing it at this level / race.

1. I had set goals that I want accomplished, and had I not frozen / snail ranked I would have breezed right by them and then been disapointed later.
2. One of those goal is to have a minmum of 12k in each resource without race / profession boosts.
3. I hear how costs can get out of hand at higher levels, and how mining isnt that important... well maybe it is, I do understand the importance of arti's so dont get me wrong, but even though RP can be transferred to creds, my mining still puts out a whole lot more than my RP would if I were to convert it.

yes, but arti production translates directly to an increase in research.. i havent taken more then ONE research planet in the last 300 ranks, and that one was a x17 plasma that i bought, now that i can convert my research, it gives my 330mill an hour guaranteed, and my mining is about the same.
thing is, i can do NOTHING and increase research, and whilst doing nothing, my ship will grow massively stronger because of my arti production. i wanted to slow/freeze at a lower rank, but upon thinking it over, its not worth it.

i could trade my RP in every hour now as well, and make 320 Mil but my mining which is almost 3k behind my RP spits out around 450 Mil / hour, so like i said mining may actually have something to do with some of the plights of higher levels. I do understand that Arti will increase your RP gradually as i tend to get at least 5 Androids per day.

strm avenger, I am about 20 ranks above you and I have almost 4x more AP than you and 2x more RP...

Yes but you spend tonnes of money into this game while Strmavenger didn't.

You're doing pretty good.

I don't see the problem with freeze ranking (at least not for me), especially when said player has not taken up all of his planet slots (like me). No point in ranking if I don't have planets to take. And, freezing allows me to attain some of my goals, like 10k defense and 6k attack by 400 (almost there on both of those).

I'd say try to get you AP up to at least 4k so you can at least have the possibility of getting 1 RP/hr.

10,000+ AP an hour for a rank 230 is unrealistic...

Very, indeed.



Oh, it should be 11k+ but I'm short for a few hours on the trellith abilty.

wow, i thought my 6500 ap/h was high, i'm a few ranks below you, i don't have trellith mission done and i don't have any mission exotics/dysons.

its not unrealistic if you unload butt loads of cash on the game / are supported by a higher level and can purchase really good planets / have multis ( I am NOT suggesting, just saying. )

Not unrealistic, just VERY, VERY hard. I personally at rank 325 just passed 7k with another 1-2k coming within at least the next month.