My ship is an MSB, an MSB that I'm trying to autorank. Crazy, I know. Here are my current stats. Please feel free to ask questions, give advice, etc, but keep it constructive please.

Note: I love Xecti, and plan to be a Xecti Fixer full time, but I'm sorta out of $$$ to change back, right now.

XxDarthDexterxX
the Annihilator
Rank 636 Drannik Fixer
The Invisible Storm (38)
Combat Reputation: Insane

Battles 238959 (Epic Legend)
Player Kills 1518
Deaths from Players 230
Non-Player Kills 21645
Planets Found 672
Planets Occupied 113
Planets Captured 78
Missions Completed 1289
Scans Performed 10175
Successful Hacks 973
Successful Raids 1088

1906 Decks
20575 Cargo
4030 Engineers <- Increasing these, currently.
3715 Tactical Officers
1341 Helmsmen
3381 Scientists

Size Class: Massive Leviathan
Space: 1896 / 1906
Attack: 9938 <- Currently buffed. (Math says 7,222 Unbuffed. Will get exact number later...)
Defense: 10046 <- Unbuffed.
Scan: 401
Cloak: 410
Cargo: 12258 / 20575
Upkeep: 5.3B
Drannik: Npcattack +40%
Fixer: Hull +30%

Recently downgraded from Thetacron Cannons to Null rays.

2215 / 3880 Energy (Goes to 6.4K with mods on. Relays are currently online.)
24021 / 24021 Hull
4002 / 4002 Shield


I'll leave out research because I'm close to finishing the last three trees (cloak, energy, shield, ), excluding base tech.

Productions:

Artifacts 14210 points / hour
Minerals 12629 units / hour
Production: 13462 research / hour

I have tons of slots open -- About 50. I never find anything good.

So... Yeah.

you are either going to have to up your strength somehow or add a ton of energy if you ever want to autorank after you switch to xecti

Yeah, that's next on my list after I reach 7K max energy. Only 200 Prisoners to go until then. I _could_ autorank a bit as Drannik, and then get my AP up a little. Means my attack would grow quicker as Xecti.

for comparison if you want im about 150 ranks higher and
have over 3x your attack
double your def
a tad over 2x your energy
just shy of 2x your hull
around 4-5x your shield

3.5x your arti
1.5x mining
1.5x res

Uh looks like i gots a ways to go for good stats then ...

Eh, I'm further behind that I thought then.

Would auto-ranking really fix things? Slow ranking doesn't look too good for me, with my low AP.

I have about 8k AP on you Dex, slowing down is always a good way to catch it up

I've been slow for a month now. It's not gone up.

cute ship btw.

my expression exactly...

Auto ranking with throw your ship further into the glass chasm.

Not really. I think my AP would explode. I've seen it happen before. The guy's almost rank 2K, with a crazy ship and he's only played 50 more days than me, but I guess it depends.

Narayan is a massive trader and I'm assuming had buttloads of CTP for the necessary planets

Just for production comparison:
At rank 476, I have: 15150 artifacts/hour, 7752 minerals/hour, and 9805 research/hour. I don't care much for mining/res, but I have decent arti. However, I am a Taltherian Excavator (so I get the 10% bonus and am constantly improving my planets) and I also use the Trellith abilities on my planets.

Then why hasn't yours exploded yet?

Wasn't auto-ranking the reason why your ship is at it's current state right now? Doesn't make sense why you would make it worst, IMO. Unless you can do scan blitz's every other week, you'll just keep a high amount of planet slots that you can't fill. I don't like you but that's how I feel.

Okay, Rusty, I think that's enough. You're just trying to pick on me now. I've never done anything to you, so just back the hell off.

Need I say, over 200 ranks below I match you on defense and have you beat on attack. Hull you have the advantage, but...

Iirc, a lot of your rank ups were on missions over NPCs, which is why his AP hasn't "exploded" yet. Autoranking is only good if you have planets to take. Remember what I was saying the other day about Av/ER AP planets actually being quite nifty (159 AP/hour)? If you have 50 planet slots, and filled them all with those, you'd have an extra 8k AP. That's perhaps not the most impressive, and certainly if you have better planets available you should be taking those. It'd make a ton of difference.