Thanks for the advice so far guys my next ? is how badly will it affect me if i drop a cannon (thinking of dropping heavy quantum devastator) it would put me at 724 attack unbuffed but would give me room for a BM50 convoy and probally some more hull. Would this be worth it or would i be unable to disable ships?

Think ive improved a little still alot of work to do any advice is more than welcome. Tell me what ya think

Some Goals:
750 Kills by 100
500 Raids by 100
2500 hull by 100

Looks ok, need that 3rd Protean, otherwise people won't take you seriously - expect a substandard build and easy prey. To other new guys, really you should aim to get them by rank 50 if your serious, raid everytime & fish often- beg for TMs & other artis off people.

Also yea, better hull probably. And wouldn't (didn't) have wasted reds on MK II doms. Go straight from I's to III's at rank 100 (incentive to get all reds in place before then.) is a good feeling & bump up, make sure you can pack a full rack.

Take off Energy things, and big gun when sleeping/afk. Put the space into hull, again you need people to look at you and not see prey. If you are small ship and they can't see any weapons/energy/sensors fitted..(ie the things that you mostly easily see without going way over scan vs cloak level) then they know where your deck space is being spent.. and they move onto the next guy. No one cares about your attack when they are hitting you, just the amount of E to spend to get the badges. When PvPing, swap to full attack mode, buff up & mop up easy targets.

but yea in short you have some killing to do..

Rank 78 on May 23
Rank 154 on Sep 11

~110 days
So at a conservative 70k base payout daily
You gained (assuming you collected base payouts most days)
Lets just call it 80 of everything from base payouts
so 80 prisoners, 80 helmsmen

76 ranks
380 rank points

+409 Engineers
+1031 Tactical Officers
+302 Helmsmen

Engineers + Tac = 720 rank points spent
80 prisoners from base payouts = 240
+ the 380 from ranking

620 rank points from base payouts over 110 days and the 76 ranks
compared to the ~720 rank points you actually used

100 rank points gained through your own artifact in ~4 months
I would be surprised if your arti/hr was over 1000 but then again joining TU could easily get you a few small terras alerted within a day so maybe recently you went over 1000 but for the vast majority of the last 4 months your artifact was truly awful.

Again this is all speculation, maybe you were spending all 4 months drifting in space and didn't collect any base payouts whatsoever. I have no idea.

So what I think? I think you should stop working on PvP and actually try to improve your arti/hr before you find yourself utterly failing to keep up and just quitting. Relying on base payouts to cover most of your ship's improvements is just an awful situation to be in.

Havent done a update for awhile was ranking slowly until recent when i started doing some LM's and ranked about 20 times ship is still not nearly where i wanted it to be at this rank have all 4 of my Dominion Mark III's and working on getting medal points to updrage to auto blasters Any advice is welcomed EDIT- this is not my shipped completely buffed only have ACF and Grid console on in this picture

at rank 154, i had just over a year of gameplay.

engineers: 373
tactical officers: 781
helmsmen: 1027
scienttists: 726

hull: 6509
pvp kills: 874
hacks: 1347
raids: 2432

i also had 370 medal points, and arti production of 4193 as a vygoid excavator. i was in a 10-person legion with a level 4 base.

so you are doing much better on the attack front than i was .... keep up the good work !

please take any griping by other commenters with a grain of salt ... the beauty of this game is that it can be played in a variety of ways, at a variety of different paces. forcing every player into a cookie cutter mould is just boring. as long as YOU are having fun, that is all that matters.