Hey all, relatively newcomer to the game, was hoping for a bit of input on what everyone thinks of my current progress.

Vygoid Hacker
Rank: 77 XP:121335/121680
Class: Heavy Cruiser
Design: Scruuge
Attack: 668
Defense: 402
Scan: 151
Cloak: 30
Deck; 309/312
Cargo: 150/275
Max Energy: 263
Hull: 1540/1540
Shield: 80/80
Daily upkeep: 16.3M

Current modules installed:
4x Light Disruptor Cannon, Cerulean Fighter, Prototype Mech XV, BM50 Convoy Shuttle, Harmonic Resonator, 2x Trinity Core Drive, Thrust Stabilizer, 2x Overcharge Q Phase Plating, 2x Scruuge Hypernode, Singularity Core, Omicron Injector, x2 F.A.T.H.E.R., AI Supercomputer, Decryption Quad-Frame, Stryll Transponder.

Modules currently uninstalled:
2x Harvest Shield, CipherBot, Zolazin Jammer.

Crew:
170 engineers, 95 tactical officers, 67 helmsman and 75 scientists.

Hourly Planet Production:
Minerals: 999/hr
Artifact: 1405/hr
Research: 1420/hr

Ship Stats
Battles: 2441 (Veteran)
Combat Rep: Balanced
Player Kills: 63
Deaths from players: 65
NPC Kills: 97
Planets Found: 140
Occupied: 20
Captured: 4
Missions Completed: 263
Scans Performed: 347
Successful Hacks: 263
Successful Raids: 28

I'm not heavy in PVP, lean more towards missions and NPC's and enemy base battles, most of my PVP is hacking, as i'm sure you can see by the above stats. Also starting to realise now that as the higher I rank, the harder it will be to get protean armories online, not having done so already, that's going to be my one biggest downfall. Well, thanks in advance for taking the time to read through this and I appreciate any input or suggestions you might have to help me along the way! Take care all!

Your production stats are amazing, but you might want to focus a lot more on attack and hull. I'm thirty ranks under you but I already have a lot more attack than you and twice your hull. I suggest researching hull at least to Neutronium Plating, and attack to Antiproton Cannons.

Thanks... now that i've finished AI Logistics to upgrade my legion's base past 3, hull's been my primary focus.

Not "amazing" but, looks to me that' you're a "new" player that has a general idea of what to do, and what not to do.

Neutronium and antiprotons are good choices.

Harvest shields are pretty bad, and should not be used at this instant.
CLoaking is unneccessary until the time where you are actively hacking, remove them when you're not.
More attack, defense.
Focus on artifact production
If you're going Vygoid, I'd advise that you choose excavator.

Looks like you are seriously lacking for badge items.

Dominion Cannons. You should have a full set of mk1's and already be saving for mk3's.
Protean Armories. You should have all 3 installed.

Ask your leader to help streamline your ship build. If they don't know how, find a legion with some good ships you can study.

Saving all my reds for dominon mk3's, when i saw how quickly i was levelling, i saw no point in grabbing the first set seeing as i'd end up scrapping them when i hit level 100... in only 3 weeks i've moved up to rank 70... Protean armories are gonna be a little tough, not much luck on raiding, i get reds just fine, i just always fail when it comes time to raid

As far as legion goes, I'm actual head of my own legion, so that's why I was looking for the support of the forums to help me find which direction to take from here. Thanks everyone, I'll update my status again later and see where I stand.

You need some crew to help out with your raids.As for red badges, you should try to get enough to buy all 4 doms mk 3 for when you hit rank 100.I would research better hulls, weapons and planetary structures, maybe +8s.After that id research some shields, at least until i get planetary shields.Also try to get the AP up and if you want you could slow down a bit and get all 3 armories.

Thanks Nicky... that's mainly been my plan for the mk3's, right now i have enough for 2 and halfway to 3, I've slowed my ranking up significantly as well. I was thinking on finishing nanospheres (just finished lvl 2) and matter disruption, maybe doing the next field as well before going back to planet structures, I'm pretty happy with the +5 structures from global meshing, atleast until i can up my hull some more to around 2k.

bump.... re-updated with new information.

in order to boost raids, you have to boost crew. you have 405 at the moment.

at rank 78, i had 603 crew with 427 raids.

also, since you are willing to buy GP, i hope you have your mission exotic already. i got mine at rank 68, but did not get my mission dyson until rank 90.

also, Crazor is at rank 70 ... you should compare notes:

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=29506

Yup, senatorhung is right. You need to hire more people xD
For comparison, I have 776 crew at rank 50, majority of whom are TO

Yup, already got my mission Exotic and close to having my Dyson as well, just need to grab 4 more spatial expanders (Doing so friday)... Purchased a few artifact storage towers as well as Scruuge hoarding vaults to up my AP and hopefully score plenty of andriod crew members and shipbots, and all my rank points since 60 have been going towards tactical officers and engineers.

Get those officers up then say 100

Hmm... I suppose this needs to be updated, lol... went on a pretty crazy ranking spree lately... this post made 2 weeks ago at rank 77, as of now, i'm rank 136, so... here's an update to my current stats

NorthernPrince
Rank 136 Zolazin Saboteur
Ship Stats
Space: 362 / 365
Attack: 1061 (Buffed 5% from ACF, 10% C.O., +25 Stable Overcharge)
Defense: 588 (Buffed +50 Warp Gate Priority)
Scan: 146
Cloak: 265 (Buffed 30% from Stealth Optimizer)
Cargo: 242 / 450
Upkeep: 17.9M

Crew Members
460 Engineers
285 Tactical Officers
118 Helmsmen
104 Scientists

Current Ship Setup
Light Quantum Devastator x3, Cerulean Fighter, Psionic Amplifier, Combat Analyzer, Prototype Mech XV
Drannik Power Core, F.A.T.H.E.R. x2, X Conduit x4, Omicron Injector, Chron-Transistor
Stryll Transponder x2, AI Supercomputer
Overcharged Q-Phased Plating x2, Scruuge Hypernode x2
Q-Phase Battery Array, Harmonic Resonator
Zolazin Jammer x2, CipherBot, Gamma Channeler
BM50 Convoy Shuttle, Scruuge X-Deflector x2, Trinity-Core Drive x2, Thrust Stabilizer

Hourly Planet Production
1524 Minerals
2427 Artifact
2146 Research
*Note - Currently only controlling 26 planets and have room for more.. have grown to be quite picky with all of my selections... 11 planets are atleast 2x Mega Rich or better, remaining are all Rich or better, and nothing under Large, except one 3x mega rich artifact, average terra.

Detailed Stats
Battles 4783 (Champion)
Combat Reputation: Balanced
Player Kills 64
Deaths from Players 70
Non-Player Kills 277
Planets Found 196
Planets Occupied 26
Planets Captured 8
Missions Completed 348
Scans Performed 602
Successful Hacks 283
Successful Raids 29


Okay, so I should probably mention about 30 ranks were done in less than 20 hours, hence not a big change in the attack/defense stats... I'll reupdate them again once all the buffs wear off... But i'm not going to anything too heavy at the moment. Being the head of a newly formed legion, I wanted to get myself atleast to over rank 100, and with so many good enemy owned planets on scan, myself and my legion mates included, Saboteur seemed like the way to go. Aside from NPC and missions, my main goal has been to boost my legion base to level 4 as quickly as possible (1 month as of yesterday, only 48k energy left to level 4!) While trying to establish friendships and allies with new players from all different angles.

O_O How did you work your production to that high? I have half your planets but only a quarter of your production.....haha. :3

Mission Exotic and Dyson are done, and I've got into the habit of trading on here quite a bit, hehe... I'm not shy to buy a bit of GP here and there, so it's helped immensely... quick update though on that... changed back to Vygoid Excavator to boost research production... trying to get Hybrid Theory Dynamics finished off to build a CT Lab when my base hits level 4 in the next few days....

Rank 137 Vygoid Excavator
Current production
Minerals 1416/hr
Artifacts 2396/hr
Research 3783/hr

you're doing good. here's what i had as a rank 137 vygoid excavator, with 32 planets occupied:

Minerals: 1827
Artifacts: 3073
Research: 2467

i have quite a few planets that don't meet your strict criteria, but it is cheap enough to abandon them since i am willing to buy GP. this way, i get the production, and i don't care about defending them. i had over 10 planet slots open at one point, and there is no sense in that, especially since i rank slower than many other pilots.

Your doing pretty good for production especialy research.
My production as a rank 132 alerian Excavator (with a mission exotic but not mission dyson)
Minerals 913
Artifact 3421
Research 2073
So you could be doing better with artifact production but your research makes up for that

*Aerlen Excavator
Thought you said you were a Elerian Excavator for a sec..

Well i dont know about Being a Elerian but judging by the build up of indignant coms at me I certainly share a couple of traits