Well Im a Sillixx, so bonus decks. I have
733 Decks
610 Cargo
278 Engineers
31 Tac Officers
98 Helmsman
243 Scientists ( I have 7 Completions of Kronyn Exodus and Doing them all)

Currently Im putting 3 In decks and 2 in Engineers. Im just wondering if I should focus on another area or not. with Rescued Prisoners I put 1 In Engineers and 2 In Decks, Should I be doing something different or does it just depend on the situation.

Edit: Im also not sure if Engineers are helping my raiding much because i seem to fail at a normal rate but get Crit Successes usually when i do.

Personally I have een puuting everything in decks. As I max out energy ill start putting more in energy.

What you're doing right now sounds pretty good, it's basically what I did for most of the game.

In the end it is all what you think is best. How far ahead are you planning? That is what matters.

Well.. I plan very far ahead. Since im rank 135. Ive been doing the 2 In Engineers, and 3 in decks for about 20 levels now. I wanted to know what I should do at level 200. Because by then i will have another 130 energy and 195 more decks. After that Im not really sure and Thats what Im really planning. 200+ I was thinking of switching the engineers to Tac Officers at rank 300 or 400.

I would recommend trading decks for Tactical Officers instead, this would be better in the long run, because you'll keep getting ship bots for more decks. Only do that, though, if you can install all your attack, defense, hull, and shields.

EDIT: I meant that for when you do stop putting points into decks. I'd say you might as well get up to at least 2000 decks before you stop with them though.

Decks, you're too low ranked to invest into crew, when you can install everything on your ship, Get more Tactical Officers or Engineers.

Energy. When I was doing mainly missions I only had about 500-800 decks for a couple months, enough with good tech to unlock almost all the missions. Then I started to do decks. If you are doing pvp or NPC, you want more decks, but more energy will always rank you faster.

I want a mix Of NPC and Missions. My energy is up to 1080 without relays and 840 with relays.
I was planning on finishing the Genetarr Chain, but with the weekly mission I finish that first then go back to the other. I mainly NPC when Im around 500 XP From leveling up.

when i hit 1000 decks, i massed engineers for about 30 ranks, i got nearly 600 engineers then i started decking again.

you need to get more tac officers, each time i level, i make four decks and choose a type of crew to get.

To me, Tac Officers are one of the worst things to invest in till very high ranks.

in my humble opinion. Mass 10,000 Engineers. So you can do the Star Purger Mission and Temporal Flux mission a billion times. Colonise heaps and heaps of planets. Then get tonnes of tactical officers and invade someones built Dyson

Ok that is a actual GOOD plan only IF I had like 5000 GP and could do energy refills a level using all rank points into Engineers like Binaryman did on his youtube vid.

Reverus and FRAIL didn't spend alot of GP, only around 30-5 GP i think but that was it.

I would do decks, too. There is planning ahead and then there is getting ahead of yourself.

If high rank guys have lots of crew, it's not because they started investing into crew early, it's because there is a point at which research becomes exponentially more costly and eventually ends, which significantly reduces the need for more decks.

At your point however, research and better modules which requires decks will do just about everything better than crew will.

Engineers worked for my I kept them equal to decks for a long time. but If u pvp then decks and tact officers may be a good pick.

secret person is right, looking further down the road... When you can't get rescued stryl prisoners after level 700 ish, Then you might wish you had put them into tactical officers at lower levels. Just something to consider...

blah... Graxis doesn't come around often enough.... i see at least 3 or 4 artifact pulled prisoners between two Graxis alerts... and Graxis doesn't even always drop the prisoners for me... not worth worrying about whether you'll lose Graxis and the stryll prisoners