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General_Harada
General_Harada
Join Date 02/2008
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So, what now ? Anyone need to borrow 100k of anything ?

March 20, 2009 10:21:53 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

When ever I play huge games ( 5 star, lots of planets, 9 AI's ), I usually get to the point in the game where I control half the map, 5 or 6 Ai's are left, and they don't really stand a chance against my main fleets. I'm running a max'd fleet cap, all my planets have max'd upgrades, every tech is researched, and I have over 300k cedits in the bank, and 15k+ of metal and crystal stocked up. My construction planets can build a new fleet in minutes ( 4-5 frigate factories ), and I can pay for it out of petty cash. I'm BUYING pirate raids for 20k just because I can ! 

I just feel guilty that I'm not doing something with all those resources. Early game you're desperate for 500 credits and JUST ONE more HC. Now, I'm not even bothering to build trade ports because I 'just don't need the cash'. HC's ? I have bucket fulls... My home star 'defense' fleet has 55 percherons...

So, what do I do with all this ? Barring the 'lottery' ( searching every planet for the supposedly extinct Space Ponies )... Start giving it away to people I'm going to kill anyway ? Scuttle and rebuild ships older then 30 minutes ? Re-decorate my palace every hour ?

What do you do ?

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Bobucles
Join Date 03/2008
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Reply #1 March 20, 2009 11:03:37 AM
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Do the same thing, but TRY TO WIN FASTER. You're clearly taking your sweet time. See if you can win, but before you manage to research everything out, and definitely do it before you get thousands and thousands of extra resources.

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love9sick
Join Date 12/2008
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Reply #2 March 20, 2009 11:56:40 AM
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play againts 9 unfair Ai lol.  Or jump online and see if youc can accomplish the same.

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VarekRaith
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Reply #3 March 20, 2009 3:44:40 PM
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Quoting love9sick,
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play againts 9 unfair Ai lol.  Or jump online and see if youc can accomplish the same.

...with teams unlocked as well.  Or if you're feeling lucky, 9 unfair ai's on the same team, locked teams, vs you.  Great Fun!

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psychoak
Join Date 07/2007
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Reply #4 March 20, 2009 11:33:20 PM
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Stop playing the way you are.

 

When you start rolling the enemy like that, it's time to mass shipyards on your perimeter worlds and just flood them all at once from every entry.  You're only suffering a resource glut because you're still sticking to a couple fleets for your offense.  The couple fleets is for the one star, 20 planet game, not the bigger ones.  Use those expendable resources and expend them.

 

If you want to take your sweet time about it, don't complain when the resources rack up.

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RBeast38
Join Date 04/2008
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Reply #5 March 21, 2009 11:24:10 AM
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since you probably have 50+ planets, see how many novas you can build at once on full auto! this will kill your newly colonized planets on multi-star maps, but you dont really seem to care. this isn't the way to go about WINNING the game, but this isn't mp and you're not on my team, so its fun to imagine

 

"the mighty lion, toying with his prey..."

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Dargoon999
Join Date 05/2008
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Reply #6 March 21, 2009 11:35:00 AM
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I really dont understand the point of this thread. So you took your sweet time to finish the game, SO WHAT? If you're bored, go play MP.

This got to be one of the most pointless thread I have seen on this forum.

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milo896
Join Date 04/2008
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Reply #7 March 21, 2009 5:03:52 PM
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Most of you totally missed this guy's point. He's asking what you would do with all the extra resources. He's not asking for advice on how to play so that he wins more quickly, or doesn't amass such a huge surplus. So quit flaming him already, gosh.

 

In your situation, I would tend to spam trade ports and Novaliths (since it sounds like you're playing as TEC). Also, if you're running entrenchment, see how many fully upgraded SBs you can build. I also like to "run the lottery" as you put it, searching for artifacts and other bonuses. It sounds like you've got a ton of planets by this point, so you should find at least a few artifacts.

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GoaFan77
Join Date 10/2008
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Reply #8 March 21, 2009 5:30:19 PM
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Scuttle all of your resource structures and challange yourself to win the game with what you've amased. It will also encourage you to win faster, as if you leave your enemies alone for too long they might catch up to you.

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Bobucles
Join Date 03/2008
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Reply #9 March 21, 2009 7:09:06 PM
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Most of you totally missed this guy's point. He's asking what you would do with all the extra resources. He's not asking for advice on how to play so that he wins more quickly, or doesn't amass such a huge surplus. So quit flaming him already, gosh.
One thing that you missed out on, is Sins has UNLIMITED resources. Harada is making it to the end of the game, buying everything out, and filling up every world 100%. There is NOTHING Harada can do after that, because in 10 more minutes he'll have to find something ELSE to spend it on. It's an endless loop, and in 2 days he'll be back to ask how he's going to spend the NEXT million resources he picked up!

The BEST solution is to spend resources as fast as you can get them. If you can't spend them fast enough, then try more aggressive, fast, and stupid strategies, and learn some new techniques along the way. Don't just sit around for 2 hours sending one giant fleetball to tag each world one at a time. That's how you get a huge excess of resources in the first place!

Also, play smaller maps. Large maps take a LONG time to win without an ally or two to double your efforts.

 

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ShadowyGoat
Join Date 10/2008
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Reply #10 March 21, 2009 7:40:04 PM
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Find something completely silly to do, do it, then post screenshots. 

Spamming Novaliths and trying to maximize the number of projectiles simultaneously in the same gravity well, for instance.

 

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RBeast38
Join Date 04/2008
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Reply #11 March 21, 2009 9:37:54 PM
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Spamming Novaliths and trying to maximize the number of projectiles simultaneously in the same gravity well, for instance.

if he doesn't i will. Another idea is to make a fleet of 142 krosovs and 2 colonizers

or sell your resources and get 100% creds

or make 4 starbases at a star with full base bomb and have them blow each other up along with your endgame fleet (pretty please)

 

EDIT: i did the third one    read description plz  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mcX0qukJRQ

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SithLordAJ
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Reply #12 March 22, 2009 2:40:42 PM
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buy seige frigate fleets and send them to their deaths. repeatedly. maybe throw in some structure killers. terror warfare it is.

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huhwhozat
Join Date 03/2009
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Reply #13 March 22, 2009 5:47:55 PM
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Start a credit highscore list.

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PlayerJuan
Join Date 09/2008
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Reply #14 March 22, 2009 6:00:57 PM
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Quoting milo896,
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Most of you totally missed this guy's point. He's asking what you would do with all the extra resources. He's not asking for advice on how to play so that he wins more quickly, or doesn't amass such a huge surplus. So quit flaming him already, gosh.

 

In your situation, I would tend to spam trade ports and Novaliths (since it sounds like you're playing as TEC). Also, if you're running entrenchment, see how many fully upgraded SBs you can build. I also like to "run the lottery" as you put it, searching for artifacts and other bonuses. It sounds like you've got a ton of planets by this point, so you should find at least a few artifacts.

 

^truth

 

What I would do if I found myself in this situation:

1.) Take out my eyes with an ice cream scooper and replace them with cadburry eggs.

2.) Head butt my computer into the wall until I died from trauma

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