Hi, im relatively new to the game, been playing about a week an a half, i reset 2 days ago, and am currently sitting at Rank 7. I'm not sure what to priortize or even if i should build it. I have no dominion cannons and no protean armories as of yet, as i haven't started combat properly.




I have 7 Red Badges, 3 Yellows, 3 Blues, no others. I am in a lvl 5 Research base, and gain around 20k research per shipment

I'd prioritize getting your hulls and defenses installed, as well as getting more research planets. Artifact planets are also very important.

Assuming you're going heavy pvp, ssb:

For now, hull. There are people under rank 10 with 2-3k hull. Try disabling that.

After that,
IF you have at least 1 dominion cannon (or really close):
Research planet structures. Production is everything. Get some good arti planets and keep pvp'ing and slow ranking.

If you don't:
Research weapons until you do get dominion cannons.

Keep your decks down to limit your damage cap as much as possible. The dominion cannons should be your only weapons once you get them. The rest of your decks should be hull.

Add decks only when it won't increase your damage cap, and use the space wisely. Don't have unnecessary, leftover decks. More decks is higher damage cap. (Decks/2 or Rank +19. Whichever's greater. Try to keep them even.)

Your rank points, when not used for decks, should go to engineers. (Not sure if SSB's need TO's or all engineers... I know Worgen only has about 500 attack, so probably all engineers. People who run SSB, could I get some confirmation on this?)

So focus on Researching hull and defense, along with artifact planet and planetary construction etc. research tree?

could you elaborate on Ssb? i know it means small ship build, but not sure on what it actually is.

So far i've been puttin 3-4 decks and 1-2 tact/helm per rank occasional energy and occasional research. should i continue on with this or start selecting different crews from now on?

Small ship build is keeping your decks equal to 2*(rank+19). This minimizes your damage cap, and arguably defends you better than defense does. If I'd known about it when I started, I definitely would have gone SSB. Now I've stopped adding decks entirely, but I'm still a long way away from SSB.

you sure its 2*(rank+19), because if so at rank 7 i should have 52 decks.. which i dont. (7+19=26, 26*2=52)

Damage cap is (rank +19)/2, or decks/2 whichever is higher.
For a true ssb try to keep your decks equal to your rank plus 19

This means 0 rank points into decks. rely on ship bots instead.
Rank points should go to tac officers and engineers only.

Damage cap at rank 1 is 20, I know that for sure. Unless that's an exception I'm pretty sure it's Rank+19 or decks/2.

if I was to restart i would have a small ship dont add decks . A massive hull and atk. putting res in to hull and using Dominion canons . I would try to join a rank 5 base that drops EVEN AP. i would add 50/50 engineers and tactical officers. I would try to have a very high atk to kill people fast and a lot of nrg to zero them. hacking and raiding with over 50% my nrg bar. I would keep my damage capt low , small ship biuld works well at low ranks. I would not care to have a high def even if they kill me less nrg spent killing them is more nrg for stealing there cargo. Dont worry for stats kills / deaths. dont matter how bad u look if u have no bite. and you should kil lmore then you die if u do this right any ways. after you rank up a bit. ALOT i would ditch the small ship build adding a crap tone of def. like maxing it out and play a stander ship biuld. but you wil not have to do that for a long time.

go ssb.
dont put rank points into deck, only into atack.

also research tonnes of hull.

Well, i reset about a week ago, so i can't reset for another 3 weeks, and by then ill be rank 40+, and im not resetting again.

heres an update on my stats:




Am i doing alright? currently on 20 yellow badges. having gone fishing for them yet

Need waaay more hull. Other than that, yeah looks pretty good.

Your doing great with your choice of research, but I would say with your low space, don't put on defense at all, max out your hull, weapons and energy and then slowly start adding defense as you get the room.