ok thanks for the help

forgot to add in Xcells, gaining less of those then brackets oddly, but they still add up, over 1K in the last month.

I don't slow rank, never have. But slow ranking does have its merit. And, it is worth pointing out that with enough energy and artifacts, lower ranks can easily bring down higher ranks (something they complain about often). I have seen it over and over again. Artifact spam levels the playing field. Why should I race to 1000 rank, when I can bomb you back to effectively being rank 200? On top of that, the lower rank gains badges from the encounter that the higher rank does not. The only way the higher rank "wins" is through a war of attrition. The little guy has less production and will simply run out of gear. Bombs and Emp Spheres can be easily replaced by purchasing them, nulls not so much.

I really just don't get the attraction of freeze ranking. Slow ranking, I understand. Especially if you have a respectable artifact production with which you're getting a decent amount of ship building artifacts. Freeze ranking, not so much. So you freeze rank at 100. Ok, so you get 2 of each shipbuilder per day with a good AP base payout. Wow, after a month or 3 you'll be the kickassedest strongest damn rank 100 around. Then you PvP. With a higher disparity between your strength and your targets strength, you'll get a higher xp return, ranking you up a bit faster. Then you end up seeing progressively stronger ships and lose your "advantage." Since they ranked "normally" they will have comparable stats, but with higher AP for a longer period and higher energy. You might spend most of your energy bar, which is short to begin with do to freeze ranking, just to get one kill, while their bar will allow them to kill you 3, 4, or more times.

Is it just me or is he a bit of a ... like he hops on asking for advice and he tells everybody off

Freeze rank is useless

It starts off being a bit useful, then you can see it becomes counterproductive as time passes.

I agree, if you are going to ask for advice, and someone uses his/her time to give you some help, at least have the decency to show respect, instead of disregarding their advice and basically insulting them.

ok sorry about that sorry if i was rude

And with that, good luck on whatever you decide to do.

Might be a bit late, but I'll say it myself. Freeze ranking is not the way to go if you wanna get to the top. I do my eccentric freeze rankings along with guys like Strm and the lot for the sake of enjoying ourselves, in our own way. From your hot-headed comments, you will find it the most boring thing ever to do. Freeze ranking is inefficient, inconvenient, and painfully slow. I just do it because I find it entertaining, in my own way.

I exaggerated not being to last, but I could not stand staying at rank 1, since you have nothing to do in the meantime, I mean, I would like to at least get some blues and yellows while sticking at the rank. Getting a plasma with the addition of a research base pushes you along very nicely, and right now, after switching to an AP base, I am still doing well with only a few research planets. Expanding into artifact production will be needed as well, though. While hacking and raiding, I would just spend the waiting time on some other game, or occupy myself on something else.

I think freeze ranking is incredibly important and everyone should do it for about 8 hours each night...

the only good thing about freeze ranking is at low ranks for really easy badges like 1x DP use then hack till you run out of TMs or get bored whilst research good attack and hull then when you have all the blue's for the battle market mods and upgrades you want you then move onto reds and yellows for the same thing, once you got your mods then its time to speed rank to 100 and get all those nice mods installed and upgraded

then i think the best way is to only do 4 ranks every time you need a planet slot for a GOOD planet unless your not so picky as you can upgrade or abandon them later, if so then rank as fast as you like

^^^ this