Are you going for a small researched module build?

i just feel that im done growing my ship size... i dont see the need to install all 8 def mods at an increase of 408 decks, and damage cap increase of 204.

there are a few more modules that ill increase in size for.. anything % increase, or a bragging rights module... like posted earlier, i dont remove my atmospheric decimators, i leave them on as bragging rights.

i highly recommend all 8 their doin wonders for me

yes, but why increase my avg damage received, when i can just wait a bit and replace the 'lost def' with helmsman/prisoners?

I find that people tend to get to hung up on the damage cap thing personally, i know its proven to work if you stop adding decks all together at around 2k decks, but honestly with a well built ship your average damage taken typically doesnt change as long as you grow evertyhing evenly. I cant attest to what its like for you but for me even when attacking people several hundred ranks higher, unless im going blow for blow with someone who has a truly good ship im normally only banking around 1-300 per hit, 3-400ish if their ship build is at least decent. like i said dont know what its like for you up there as you can hit / get hit by people much higher than me, but thats what I've seen so far, and the game tends to have a typically linear scaling system.

its not anyone in PvP thats going to be doing the massive damage consistently.. its doing bases and a couple npcs for now.

ahh ok yea bases can hit hard, ill give ya that one. As for NPC's i dont know the ones that your goin against so i really cant say.

Just a little update.
Rank 575


24710 Cargo
3381 Engineers only added 25 recently.. just cause. will work on these later as well.
4040 Tactical Officers gaining quickly on 5K
2063 Helmsmen not growing fast enough for my liking.
3921 Scientists keep an eye on this.. see exactly how much its growing by each week. maybe start dropping unnecessary gas planets...

ATTACK
10.5K - 15% (buffed)
DEFENCE
9100

Upkeep is down to 3.8 bill, two darkbots installed. slowly working on the mission chain for the last one.



Weapons
No real big changes, added the 3 exotic weapons. unequipped just like the pulse ballistae.

Defence
No changes
Hull
ditto
Energy
same

Devices
all 4 bio scramblers
all 4 Co align signal processors
one gravimetric flume


Battles 184905 (Epic Legend)
Player Kills 1611
Deaths from Players 628
Non-Player Kills 13205
Planets Found 581
Planets Occupied 139
Planets Captured 96
Missions Completed 973
Scans Performed 3604
Successful Hacks 591
Successful Raids 1038


5250 Energy
21402 Hull
6351 Shield


Production numbers

Mining
9666 <-- lost a x16 toxic, and gave away a couple others. still capping too fast for efficiency
Arti
21965 <--- will update in a few days after i pick up a few boughten massives and VMs
Res
13269 <--- able to see scientist gains much easier via the contract. every last one shows a slight increase to credits/hr

the difference shows though I still remember our last squabble

Though I think I still have some of your ammo attached to the outside of my hull it didnt quite go off like it was supposed to but my tac officers say that they've fixed it, something about blah blah blah not conecting with the bru ha ha so that the zingle zangle cant make biggy boom sound.

....anyrate if you want it back i'll be happy to send them over

LOL, i uh, might hit you back if you shoot at me im not much for taking a beating laying down. unless your ranked well above me or a huge energy drain.

well you'll have to come to me, sorry at rank 575 i think your just a slight out of my visual aquity.

thats not true, im just VERY unlikely to show up for you..
but yes, ill hit you sometime when i see you. there are a few people i ALWAYS hit on BT and your one of them. i know you follow this thread and can see the growth, and because of that, you can report on how well its going. the others... well, i just hit them for whatever reason i have.

YAY someone pays attention to me

haha, sounds good man its nice to have someone to benchmark off of for when I get up there, that way I dont have to make one of those 'look at me threads' for comments, i have a nice library to read back on.

tiny update.
got my first continuum parser.

buffed atm, so dont want to figure out exact hull and shield stats
22500 or so hull
just under 7K shield

28360 Cargo
3431 Engineers
4736 Tactical Officers
2293 Helmsmen
4346 Scientists

Mining 10042
Arti 23337 reclaimed a lost VM MR planet as well as i nice scanning spree VL x3 terra... mondays action is a x15 VM theft.
Res 13965

also finished the 3rd dark bot assembly now to work on the trellith chain i think.

Trellith chain is great - i get nearly 3k extra production from the three boosts- but thats hard to replicate as i have a rifted 62x arti

662 level

Size Class: Colossal Galaxy Destroyer
Space: 5087 / 5088
Attack: 18752
Defense: 18098
Scan: 5381
Cloak: 4764
Cargo: 30427 / 58120
Upkeep: 11.4B
Konqul: Attack +20%
Excavator: Artifact +10%

5088 Decks +1 Deck (ship size)
58120 Cargo +5 Cargo Holds (cargo space)
3541 Engineers +2 Engineers (max energy)
8401 Tactical Officers +2 Tactical Officers (attack)
4329 Helmsmen +2 Helmsmen (defense)
7824 Scientists +3 Scientists (research)

Production: 19849 research / hour
Minerals 16847 units / hour
Artifacts 30974 points / hour

have a vm 20x research in target scope- and a few more little arti worlds- 3 spare planet slots to fill

have a heap of worlds- 100 or so - i need to re tweak for higher production and less defence because i really don't care if i lose them- should get at least 10% higher production after that

those att/def numbers are quite impressive, it just means ive gotta set my sights even higher
and are you rocking 5K scan ALL the time?

yet another update

rank594
energy 5500 with relays on
hull 23155
shield 7203

Productions
Mining 10.5k stole a nice 17x on a 5% chance
Arti 25K nearly capping in 8 hours which is my set goal, but of course this will still be pushed higher to an unnecessary amount lol
Res 14.8 (1600 pt increase from the 6th of the month- NO research planets taken)

Hit my goal of 5K TO's
5050 atm,
2481 for helmsmen
4609 scientists

Im going to try for a roughly 80% TO 10-20% helmsmen/10% energy plan... seeing some nice worlds out there but hate needing a SAB team to rely on to take them... would much rather brute force my way onto them and let someone else utilize the sabs.

I thought about switching to more helms to counter my obese ship- but not many ships have the guns to really hurt me- and if they do it wouldn't make much difference. high arti output means i have a large stockpile of repairs for the big bases that really pack a punch

And having the guns to get a 40% chance on well defended worlds is a real boost to stats in the long run- defence will have to wait

its wierd for me to look at this thread now lol.

i went up 13 ranks while youve shot up almost 230! but like i said a dozen times before its nice to have someone to compare at level for level.

went against my better judgement and added the other 4 def modules instead of letting the helmsmen take care of it and save on decks.
added 1656 from just the modules alone

DEF 11593 unbuffed, so a hefty little increase that should discourage a few more players from the rare disable i currently get.

talking about rare disables.... 13379 I hardly get disabled when I get legion alerted.