I have one mission exotic, dyson, and rift. I have put money into the game, yes.

But I've also finished trellith through resequencers so that's why my APH is good, and I used one of my planet fluxes to buy 3 uplifted toxics (plus a few that were gifted to me, thanks Junior!) and I've had some really lucky scan runs.

are you talking about the Voliir Bio-Stabilizers??

What's the second formula you are referring to? I know 41.7 is the (ATK+Def)/rank equation. but the other one has me stumped.

ya sorry been awhile since I used them.

That's the second formula. page 14 of the ship strength thread. (it's a more comprehensive ship strength formula, imo)


And no worries, Wolfy, just wanted to make sure we were talking the same language.

Thanks for all the advice and strategy suggestions guys.

This is basically what I've boiled it down to:

-I'm going to finish Kronyn through the ergosphere filters, and then wait to finish it at a later date.
-Then, Silthion
-finish adding TOs to 2k, then onto engineers
-decided to postpone researching syncopated plating in favor of Supernova Generators
-Begin Talth? (this may happen before, during or after the following)
-Search for Caelon and Larva together when I can safely auto-rank off of NPCs

As far as ship build advice goes, I'm loving this:

Never thought of it, think it's golden.

Make sure you wait until you have the final thrusters before Voliir'ing them though.

For sure!

Finish trellith chain above all else. Finish energy up to last relays.

Wanted to do a little check in today, as I've accomplished a lot of my earlier goals.

* Finished in the last month: Seeing Red Medal, Annihilator Medal. I now have 365 medal points so I'm PvPing towards auto-blasters.

* Mission-wise: I finished Kronyn through the Kronyn Data Cubes (all 6 idling in my cargo atm) and decided to stop there for awhile. I still want to get the Ergosphere Filters but they are back-burnered for the moment. I finished Trellith yesterday morning (currently have used the influence twice now, LOVE IT!) and it made my APH jump about 2k.

I'm 3/4 completions on Aggressive Evolution, should have the first chapter finished in about two ranks, and then onto Into the Expanse for the Vorigar Scan Data. When Silthion is finished I plan on throwing some scan on my boat and hunting for Caelon and Larva together.

* I'm at 10x energy:rank atm, want to get somewhere closer to 12x.

* Since updating this last I finished researching Supernova Generators and Syncopated Plating. I did a little bit more cloak research, but atm I'm doing base research. working on 2/3 of Sub-Quantum Logistics. Really want to get through Dimensional Logistics so I can actually donate to the base.

* I also switched to Konqul Excavator from Fixer. Decided I didn't need the crutch anymore.



Good call. Totally did it, very glad I did!

edit: I'll add stats later today.

congrats

Seeing Red is ... kinda troublesome for me

lol. I was waiting for this.

things got busy yesterday! I'll get it tonight after work.

(stupid RL)

mkay. here's my update:

Kara Thrace
Rank 345

Size Class: Massive Leviathan
Space: 1859 / 1860
Attack: 8656
Defense: 6959
Scan: 411
Cloak: 380
Cargo: 15232.5 / 16210
Upkeep: 2.6B
Konqul: Attack +20%
Excavator: Artifact +10%

Battles 85799 (Grand Legend)
Player Kills 1019
Deaths from Players 161
Non-Player Kills 7199
Planets Found 651
Planets Occupied 84
Planets Captured 38
Missions Completed 571
Scans Performed 4575
Successful Hacks 553
Successful Raids 616

Crew:

1674 Engineers
2160 Tactical Officers
685 Helmsmen
1879 Scientists

Weapons: Heavy Null Ray x8, Dominion Cannon - Mark III x4, Cerulean Fighter, Chromatic Cannon, Korteth Twin-Blaster x4, Composite Ray - Type S, Composite Ray - Type D, Ion Pulse Ballistae x4, Prototype Mech XV, Combat Analyzer

Energy: Surge Plexus x3, Silthion T-Plasma Hub x3, F.A.T.H.E.R. x2, Wormhole Relay x4, Omicron Injector, Chron-Transistor

Sensors: Merged DataNode, Tachyon Router, AI Supercomputer

Hull: Perfect Syncopated Plating x5, Scruuge Hypernode x2, BioMimetic Sealer II x4, Korteth Plating x2, Silthion Exo-Plating x4, Protean Armory x3, Impact Absorber

Shields: Harmonic Resonator, Q-Phase Battery Array

Cloaking: Gamma Channeler

Defenses: Exergonic Inverter - Mark III x4, Velox Thruster x2, Sha'din Forcevoider x4, Dark Phase Engine x4, BM50 Convoy Shuttle x3, Silthion T-Phase Utricle x4, Auto-Evasion Node, Trinity-Core Drive x2, Thrust Stabilizer, Subspace Compressor

Production:
Minerals 9629 units / hour
Artifacts 18571 points / hour
Research: 10220 research / hour

I think that's everything.

Like your plan in the first post.
Rsls are a waste and dilute the good npcs.
It may make auto ranking a bit harder but it will add up if that's what you are doing.
Kronym excavator is a poor mans talth, and prefect for low ranks.
You need no other res planets, and can slowly get rid of all but max plasmas, abd eventually even sell those too.
Lack of a need for res planets also allows for more arti planets.

So I just finished the mission with the Vorigar Scan Data and now I've moved on to Controlling the Silthion. Do I have to do one full completion (20/20) of that mission before I can start searching for larvae, or can I just do 1/20 of the mission and then start looking for larvae?


(also: got APH over 20k last night. Woot!)

1/20 should work.
ive done only 4/20 and already found the larva

Thank you!! Hello NPCing!

We can settle that theory in it's proper grave.

Found Larva! In less than a rank!