SageWon

[quote]each little figher (NOT SQUADS) give 2 xp and each bomber gives 3 xp.[/quote] I had Advent & TEC Bombers with 6 xp, not 3. And surprisingly, Vasari bombers give 11 xp each (not sqauds).

Thanks Blair, a great guide. Now, where were those people complaining about no "manual" available?! This does the job. (PS. and thanks for programming a great game!) Regards, Obi 1

[quote]Sagewon, I witnessed that bombing the planet indeed gives you 300 [/quote] Wow. I trust you, but find that hard to believe. I've since tested it a fourth & fifth time, and have yet to witness experience gains from bombing a planet. In fact, I noted that in both, vanilla 1.15 and Entrenchment, the planet info cards have been corrected. They no longer say: 400 experience points! I wonder, was it a gradual gain of 300 exper

[quote]The Volkoras Desolator is a superb ship though, no way 3 stars.. The Maruader a 4 star ship? Not for me, deffinately bottom of the line. Distort Gravity is a 3 star ability at best.[/quote] Well, I had the Desolator at 4 stars, and the Marauder at 3 stars, until yesterday. Maybe I should change them back! (I reserve the right to edit the above posts). I used to pick the Desolator second too , and it sounds like it w

[quote]Thanks guys; I'll look for the patch and get back to you.[/quote] I should have mentioned: watch out for your saves no longer working. Each major upgrade has rendered the previous saves and replays inoperable, and its not always easy to go back to the previous patch (altho it should be easy to go back to 1.00). Also, it came to my attention that, the original Gaian Cresent map also did not have the homeworld 'capitol' designated and paid for. That is a

Now that Entrenchment has provided a juicy new target for experience points (especially if you hit the SB while its still building), I thot I'd update my post on experience points available for Capital Ships. Also, I learned a new secret for gaining experience points: Send a scout into the pirate base to run round and round, and while they chase him, come in with your Cap ship and Carriers, to pick off all the easy targets preoccupied with the scout, and gain

[quote]I value the Kortul Power Surge... turns the Kortul into a beast at high levels... I have more love for Halcyons than just 3 stars. I get them specifically for TK Push and Amplify Energy Aura, these abilities both have a huge effect on the battle. You just have to keep the Halcyon alive. I also like Repair Cloud and Micro-Phasing Aura on the Skirantra[/quote] Thanks Cykur. I really appreciate your comments. Based on your comments and Hou

[quote]there were 3 games available and only one showed[/quote] yeah, that means the other 2 games were entrenchment games. [Edit] Looks like me and Astax posted at the same time, only he is faster. Obi1

[quote] buy two planet devs to stop the credits leeching[/quote] It sounds like you are playing with an un-upgraded version!? The original/out of the box game had errors on the Gaian Cresent map (no planet infrastructure)... that have since been changed. Upgrade your game to 1.15, and the above advice will apply... and your whole game experience will change.

[quote]there must be 3 new artifacts in entrenchment judging from the research screen.[/quote] Yeah, there are 3 new artifacts in Entrenchment. Here is a picture of them . The following is their 'in-game' descriptions: 1. Ion Field Generator: Bombing damage taken -20% "A large planetary energy system that emits charged particles into the upper atmosphere, creating a partial barrier to orbital bombardment." 2. Matter Compressor:&nbs

[quote]research timed explosivses. 3. take all 5 scouts and bomb his hostility labs. 4. Repeat every three minutes cause thats how long the you have to wait in between uses.[/quote] Nope. The cooldown is 900 seconds. Thats 15 minutes! (To wait in between uses).

TYR, how LAME! Post something worthwhile u haughty sob, u obviously know micro that ur not sharing, then u might deserve some. What a bunch of kiss ups.

Yeah, ur best bet is the largest maps: the huge multi system random map - with 102 Grav wells (5 stars), Hyperion's Gates - with 72 Grav wells (3 stars), or maybe Implosion, a single system with 65 wells. Ancient Gifts with 101 wells, is mostly wormholes (35! & 14 stars!), and each homeworld recieves the jump drive artifact only. Tip (Cheat): Save, Surrender, Keep Playing, see all artifact locations, count to see if there are

[quote]I've still yet to see a game where all artifacts spawn at normal probabilities, and I've played all the biggest stock systems.[/quote] I've found them all in the huge multi-system random map (and got a legit 100% acheivements). I found all 12 once, including the new entrenchment artifacts, and here is a picture to prove it. No cheating. Except for this: Start game, Save, Surrender, Keep Playing, view all ar

[quote]Quitting DOES result in a loss of your stats, more so than just surrendering.[/quote] Well, maybe. Surrendering is "honorable", (as P5yy says), but it DOES cripple your team, (if you surrender when/while you have considerable resources, or planets left). And to be clearer, Surrendering adds a "loss" to you stats, and one more game completed. Whereas just quitting, only just adds one more game completed (no win or loss is re

[quote]the Dunov's Shield Restore description says it can be used on structures, but no structures that I know of have shields [/quote] Thats a valid point. But thats what the in-game description says! Maybe they are referring to the planet sheild generator? I've never used that structure. Or maybe its an error. Speaking of the Dunnov. Its level 6 ultimate ability (Flux Feild), that lowers anti matter cost to 25%, is probably my second favori

[quote]what is all the fuss about?[/quote] I am assuming you really mean 1.1... (from 1.05) There really was alot of changes, and if you played online, you would see completely different strategies. Here's the list of changes: 1.1 changelog (plus a few more minor ones in 1.11 & 1.12)

Thanks Starhound, I think your " State of Capital Ships " post had some good info & points, worth repeating here. But I feel caps should get even more hull & sheild as they level up. I tend to agree with wnmnkh ( here ), that high level cap survivablity should be increased somehow. I liked your description: "Revelation Battlecruiser - Really weak survivability. Gets shamefully owned by neutral militia in

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[quote]but i don't know if it's inclusive of the previous patches[/quote] Yeah. it is. I went from 1.00 directly to 1.05 too (after playing 1.00 for months, without knowing about the updates), and eventually downloaded Impulse and updated periodically to the current version, 1.12. (And I bot entrenchment after the Beta release, and played around with it a bit, but went back to 1.12). I am curious, how is the online scene for 1.05? Are people still playin

[quote]Except that I said that I researched both levels of it. I should know, because I lost the resources to prove it![/quote] Did you have enough open fleet slots? I am assuming that you did. But I learned the hard way on this point. I had my phase gates set to auto-cast (RA). And it used up/filled up all my fleet slots, and kept on charging me for activating RA (once I had enough crystal), even tho it didn't create ANY new ships! Becau

[quote]I think it sucks.[/quote] I also disagree. Another key factor that you are missing is: you get high level ships that you did NOT pay to research. You can actually get by with only 1 military lab, and 8 civilian labs, and still have a very strong mixed fleet including tier 5 HC's. (The money saved on not researching each of these ship types, alone can just about pay for RA).

[quote]the Dunov's Shield Restore had the restored amount dropped to 250/500/750 at 1.1, with cooldown time reduced to 11 seconds.[/quote] Thanks InfiniteVoid. I'll make the correction to the OP. I had noticed some changes for the Dunov from Mongoose's version and wondered about that. Somehow I missed it in the 1.1 changelog . And, I also just noticed that my strikethru's aren't showi

[quote]where did the capship overview post go[/quote] Here's a link to an updated version . Maybe if enuf people PM the moderators, we can get it pinned, so it doesn't slide off the page again.

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