Raymond Lin said:
oops, just probe someone not in an alliance and lost all my probes. Turns out he has 13 battleships, 20 crusiers, and i have only 10 crusiers, 6 Heavy fighters and 15 small fighters. Speedim tells me i have 66% chance of winning even if he attacks me, you think i am safe ? or should i spent my res before i go to bed, and res save as much as i can?
He would be an absolute moron if he attacked you. Fleetsave anyway though, never know, someone much better than him may stumble upon you
Captain Fizz said:
Your name doesn't appear on the alliance page so I can't just have a quick check to remember who I have forgotten!
If you were in the alliance, I would see your name more often.
Gotta be worth a try!
I'm not in your silly uni, and besides, Rebel Uni 2 is brilliant
Captain Fizz said:
Anyway - Going for actives.
Do you consider alliances?
Look for a certain type of player?
As soon as you see the fleet, send yours after it, or as you have mentioned before, stalk the intended victim and find out their operating hours etc?
Need to know these things - The most efficient methods to progressing possible basically.
(I have a habit of asking MANY questions to people who know something I want to know... Best way to learn is to ask questions!)
First off, ask whatever you want. Just stop forgetting that I pwn and mention my name everywhere with merit.*
Second, I consider everyone and everything. If he's a nice target, then we turn his fleet into spacedust, or we steal his cookies from the cupboard. The only people I never went out of my way to attack were Cursed in my uni, mainly because they were top of the universe - and they only had a squad of ten (basically Cursed members accounted for ten of the top fifteen players in the uni at one point).
I don't know who dominates your universe so I can't comment. The reason I never went for cursed players was because their top players were very close to me and I didn't want to turn into Mr. Farm if I ever made myself too noticable.
Of course I assume you know where danger lies and where it doesn't in your area.
Anyway apart from, say, the top 20 players, probe everything near you. You don't care about alliance unless it is an extreme case like the one above, i.e: A very small team of people who dominate the very top spots in your universe. But then again common sense should warn you from that.
Don't attack someone who's very far out of your league, basically. You might pull it off but say he sees 150 battleships having attacked him, he'll think "3 million debris for me once I rape him!", and then you'll have his 800 battleships after you.
Watch out for moons. If you know the guy is strong (i.e: Has a fleet that would annihilate you), and has a moon in the area, for the love of Jesus don't make yourself noticed.
When I see a nice fleet I usually try to attack there and then. I have enough deuterium that an extra 100k gone from sending a fleet doesn't make much of an effect on my fuel reserves. If he fleetsaves, then it doesn't matter, there is always another time. Mr. Moon helps me out in this respect though. If not, constant probing is the way forward. The more you know, the more you guarantee you live.
It may look like I've been contradicting myself (saying attack everything and then dont attack if they are too strong), but I don't know where you are in your universe, who is playing, et cetera. I know my situation in uni 2, in which I've always been rank 200ish (went to 150 for a while at one point, maxxed out at 123... coming back I hope
), and I've had number 2 alliance behind me (Rebel), so I didn't really give a damn what could happen.
Most other players don't care either, even those in lower ranks than myself or the Rebel guys. They assume that as long as they fleetsave, they are ok. They aren't wrong, either, so remember that the other players are just like you or me. They aren't machines and they won't magically strike down on you when you attack them
*Joke. Do read what comes after though, because it actually answers your questions.
