Race And Profession- Aerlen Fixer
Decks- 1096
Cargo- 3360
Upkeep- 346 Million

Stats:
Attack- 2764
Defense- 2570
Hull- 6551
Energy- 414
Shield- 194

Production:
Research- 1775 Per Hour
Minerals- 1439 Per Hour
Artifacts- 1797 Per Hour

Here are a few quick screenshots of my ship:


i also have the Hallows Bane Ship ally.

for the most part I PVP with small breaks now and then to do other stuff. Let me know if theres anything else i can post to get better feedback. thanks

Post your mods and your research.

Oh and arti up.

the mods are up there on the second screenshot and my artifact per hour is 1797.

he means get your arti production up

my bad
never pulling a all nighter for HW again

nice ship varun its been a while since i last saw it

Ok my advice to you is this:
-Get and install your last two dom mark 3's, one of the best guns out there.
-I would as soon as you can afford it, switch to heavy nulls, it's not that much extra space, and it's a nice boost to attack, watch your upkeep though obviously.
-If I were you I would get your 3 energy cores up, even if your slow ranking it's nice to have energy when a level 5 comes along or something.
-I would also advise you, since you have one FATHER already, get the other, that's optional of course but if your willing to spend the GP then they are worth it.
-I would also start adding in your other 4 defense mods, uninstall any special defense mods with a lesser deck ratio if need be.
-I see you haven't done much hacking, I would suggest doing so because those Senary Frames/Decryption-Quad Frames can come in useful as an extra little boost in a scan run.
-Like I said before, you need to get your arti up, it should be the most dominant of your resources and right now you seem to be quite balanced. What I would have to say though is don't go after arti religiously, the other two resources are important as well, especially at your rank, just not AS important.
-Once your arti is up quite high, say 5k, and/or you reach around 2k decks then switch from adding decks to TOs and Engineers, I don't know if your doing it yet, but it's good to think about exactly when your going to stop adding decks as the 5k arti and the 2k decks is just a guideline. I personally stopped at around 1.7k decks and around 8k arti, but like i said it's up to you entirely.

Other than that, I would have to say you have a very nice ship for your level, but it could use some work.

Right. Based on your energy I'm going to assume you're a slow ranker, and so I shall judge you as one.

You're ship is okay. For a rank 150, your ship is decent, but certainly nothing spectacular. Your production - in particular artifact - isn't great, and that's stunting your growth.

Additionally, I'd say you've missed the trick with Light Null Rays. Really dude? Light Null Rays --> Heavy Antiprotons. You'll save a lot on upkeep for a minimal attack loss. I'm not sure you could afford the increased upkeep of Heavy Null Rays either.

For a non-fixer, your hull is good, but as a fixer you should be looking around 8k. Hull, UP. In order to do this, I would get the Biomimetic Sealers (and get the one you have fixed), and Vortul Platings. That'll make a big difference, overall of around 1k after fixer.

Your defensive modules have missed the trick too. Whilst the BM50 Convoys are efficient for now, you'll quickly see them outclassed by Energy Nullifer Mk3s. They're cheap (9.3M upkeep), and have an efficiency of 5.3, which is larger than the BM Convoys' 5.0. These should have been done before even considering Null Rays. Tier your research based on your racial boost and upkeep - not which guns look pretty.

Next, I'm not entirely sure what you're doing with the energy modules. 1 efficient core is better than 4 drannik power cores. Dark Energy Core Mk 4 --> Drannik Power Core x4. Additionally, uninstall the Q-Pedd Logic Servo and the Voiir Modulator. If you want scan, install a Stryll Sensor.

Additionally, get the remaining Vortul Phasers, the Dominion Cannon Mk3s, the Scruuge X-Deflector (should they return), and the Dark Ring/Complex Thrusters.

Finally, you should be using +8s or +10s for your structures, but you didn't show your research tree.

Summary of changes
Raise all productions
Swap Light Nulls for Heavy Antiprotons
Get Biomimetic Sealers, fix current one
Get Energy Nullifiers Mk3 - uninstall BM Convoys if space needed
Dark Energy Core Mk4 instead of Drannik Powercores, Logic Servo etc.
Install Stryll Sensor (Hunt or Prey)
Get remaining NPC drops
Get Dominion Cannon Mk3s


EDIT: Gotta wonder if people ever take offense, when I - or anyone else - writes out a big long post like that one.

upkeep isnt really a problem for me actually and i usually end up with around 100 or 200 million extra each day.
for the mark 3s im going for them atm and am hoping to have the last 2 by mid decemberish.
for energy and defense, i just installed random stuff as it came, one of the main reasons i posted here cause it felt off.
ill work on getting my hull up and install the stuff you suggested as i get it.
for my artifact ill work on that and hopefully get lucky on my next few scan runs, and im hoping to get my mission dyson sometime in november as well.
for my production modules im on +10s and am working on getting my +12s. most of my planets still have +5s still cause i figured i'd just do one big upgrade when i got the +12s as all my research has been going into them lately.
ill post here again in a few ranks. thanks for the advice guys

I would suggest against +12's they cost a HUGE amount, I had 50 billion saved up when I first got them, I ended up spending that in the first day, by the time I'd finished upgrading all my arti planets and all my ultra rich+ mining and research planets I must have spent in excess of 200 billion. I make 1-2 billion profit a day and it took me a month or two if not more.

should i go with +8s or +10s then?

+10's are pretty expensive but a big boost, and are probably worth the credits, +12's take a lot longer to make up their own worth. So I would say go +10's for now, but make sure you don't spread your funds too thin like I did. A good idea would be to have a buffer, say 3x your daily upkeep and not go below it.

alright sounds good. for now ill focus my research in other areas and upgrade myself to +10s.

heres the research tree. thanks for the feedback guys!

Nulls, Fermionics, Transconduits, Defenses up to Energy Nullifiers, all worth research if you've got the mining to support them (the upkeep would be around 1-1.5 billion with them maxed out.

100-200 million a day is just breaking even, imho. if you are planning on upgrading from +5 to +12 it will be VERY expensive. for myself, i have +10's on selected mining and research planets, but still +8's on the artis. researching the last pop buildings before moving on to +12's.

here are my current stats for you to compare against:



so, i do have the mission dyson, and excavator bonus, but i also have 3 open planet slots. the artis have improved my hull and shield compared to your situation.

so, if i were you, i would boost all mining planets to +10s. once that improves your cashflow enough, improve your best research planets to +10s so that you can research the +12s faster. your arti planets should be upgraded to at least +8s, with the plan to upgrade them directly to +12s. research the +12 mining and boost all your mining planets to +12s and then see where your cashflow is at.

Your plan is good up to where you say build +12s on your mining planets first. The time it would take just to break even would be a long time, it would be a much better idea to just suffice with whatever the +10's give you and instantly upgrade arti planets to +12s, with research and mining coming after when you have the funds to spare.

the objective is NOT to break even on the mining structures, but to boost cashflow enough so that when he finishes researching the arti +12s, he will have enough on-hand to build out a decent amount of artis. if he is only clearing 200M a day, +12s are well out of reach. i cleared over 8B this week, though i would note that ranking over 160 will gain varun access to aidonium, which definitely improves the financial outlook.

I would say that out of experience especially if he's already capping in his mining that like I originally said, he would research the arti +12's long before he broke even.

but he is NOT capping on mining. it takes me 13 hours right now to cap my mining (i do have 6 of the t.o. storage buildings, but he has more planets), so he is probably around 15-18 hours. if he is only clearing 200M per day, he NEEDS to boost that or else he will be building a single +12 arti building every WEEK. building the +12 mining building once a week while researching the +12 research and arti buildings (at his 1775 RP per hour, that comes to 619 hours - 25 days - per +12 level) will allow him to build up a cushion so that he can benefit immediately from his +8 to +12 arti jump by buying more +12 artis at a faster rate.