All Things Resource and Resarch

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I have just started research on drop ships. Once that is completed then I can build one. Total research + build time is about 70 hours so should be able to get my second planet by Thursday.

Does anyone have any thoughts on what kind of planet to choose next. Should it be in same solar system or should I look further afield.

Any Ideas will be welcome.

Regards

Agrajag

I am thinking that it might be worthy to set it up as a water planet to max deuterium. Its the same theory as getting a 15cropper in travian. Set it to your main production center for troops and ship in resources to feed the builders. Thoughts?

I have to agree with harbinger76. As we increase our research it seems that Deuterium is becoming increasingly more valuable.

i think this is a good idea, but as we all start to colonize we should rotate which planet we should get. (first person gets deuterium rich planet, the next gets crystal and so on) that way we can not have a monopoly on one resource but have none of another. of course for a second and third planet we would switch type so we become more self reliant. I too am fairly close to a drop ship, we will see how long it REALLY takes me but i dont have much more to do.

once you get the planet, i would suggest making it 100% dedicated to the resource. no need to have multiple planets long term and not have them specialized

Water planet for Deuterium was my first thought although at the moment I have more Deuterium than I need and not enough metal & Crystal.

I am tempted to go for an ice planet which have fairly even resources and are uninhabitable by Xen. Although if everybody else is a bit short of Deuterium then I could go for water planet next and trade excess Deuterium with you all. Metal & Crystal seem to be easier to get from harvesting so water planet might be the way to go.

Distance away? Any thoughts ? I am currently very close to G2 Centre.

If you are not going to really start building your fleet until you get a 3rd planet, then a metal/crystal world may be the way to go. As far as location, i dunno. It has been pretty quiet out my way if you want to get into the neighborhood. Or, get a look at our locations and see if there is some area that shows higher density of us. We can pod that area and make it a stronghold.

maybe we could find a few systems that are close together with a lot of good planets and everyone puts their new planets there. start with one system and work from there?

Yaay!!!

Drop ship is building now. Will only take another 39 Hours.

Does anyone have any preference for our stronghold. I am inclined to stick around galactic centre.

Just by taking an average of our X and Y values, we center on -5,4.

Good Shout

I will have a look around there.
Is anyone else near getting 2nd planet?

my colonization center is at level 5, need to research the drop ship, and build it. thats all i need left. a week or so tops?

WOW!! It would seem I am truly behind, but then again, I haven't been exactly researching what I need for another colony planet so much as I have been paying more attention to getting the research I need to build a strong fleet before I leap to another planet.

However, we are alluding to building up our planets and strong hold system, I will re-direct my resources to working on getting colonization up before more research is done for my military.

On that note, what lvl of Naval blueprints do our higher ups have anyways??

Tetrahedron

You are not that far behind me in terms of population. I haven't got anything other than fighters , transports and recyclers at the moment so my fleet build up is lagging behind due to concentrating on 2nd planet.

My thinking was that if I rushed to get another planet then resources would increase dramatically and I could increase my fleet and defences very quickly after that. If you are well on your way to getting destroyers then it might be worth carrying on with that.

Black sun was getting status reports the other day. Please can you post them here so we can all see.

Regards

Agrajag

PS: Drop ship arrives in 24 Hours.

I too only have recyclers transports and fighters. I remember reading that all planets have some defense so dont throw the drop ship at it alone, some fighters would probly work.
What im looking forward to the most is the second research center that im going to build on the second planet. also a double in mine production wont be the worst

I just started building my colonization center. I would think I am within a week of drop ship.
Is there any decision on a stronghold system or group of systems?

Here are my research and production levels:
Metal 915, Crystal 915, Deuterium 915
Chem 5, Math 5, Physics 2
Expansion 1, Recycling 1, Structural 3, Arms 2, Propulsion 3
I also have 10 Flak canons and 10 fighters for defense. Although I haven't had to use them.

My main goal is resources at this time.

I think Agrajag is informally in charge of that since he will beat everyone else by at least a few days, then i think we will all find planets close to the one he found.

how did you manage to get dueterium at the same production as the other two? im impressed

It just turned out that way. I was surprised too.

Deuterium is at 2 level eights and 2 level nines.
Metal is at 2 level tens and 1 level nine, crystal is the same.

Well if everyone is going for second planet I will continue to research for my destroyer (need 2 more physics). Then will go for battleship(2 more chem) then i'll help protect everyone else. Then I'll go and get my second planet. (i'll take one for the team )

Well if everyone is going for second planet I will continue to research for my destroyer (need 2 more physics). Then will go for battleship(2 more chem) then i'll help protect everyone else. Then I'll go and get my second planet. (i'll take one for the team )
metal-800, crys-600, Deut-800
math-5
phys-6
Chem-6
Arms Tech-6
Struc Tech-6
Prop Tech-5
Expansion-1

thanks man. once i get mine, i can load you up with resources in order to get yours if you would like?

oh and since this goes in resources ill post it here: is anyone else having trouble with transports, mine carry like 100 resources each. is this just because its from asteroids or is it a bug or something i havnt thought of. -thx

I am currently researching chem 8, and will be finished researching it by this friday. the only other item besides the blue prints to the battleship that I will need to research is structural tech which is already at 4, needing 4 more lvls so all in all I should be able to have battleships come sunday at the latest.

Basic science
Mathematics (1) level 2

Physics (3) level 4

Chemistry (7) level 9

General science
Espionage technology (2) level 3

Energy technology (0) level 1

Structural technology (4) level 5

Arms technology (5) level 6

Propulsion technology (3) level 4

Regarding the transports:
I'm not sure but I was under the impression the transports couldnt gather from asteroids. They were only good for when raiding planets. It seemed the only resources gathered when sent to a asteroid was from the fighters that I would send with a transporter. So now my transporters are all designated for raiding other planets. I send multiple fighters with to increase the amount brought back.

I am interested to see if we have to research all the techs again on the 2nd planet or if the 2nd base just functions as an additional research node. Also do mil units built at one planet have the ability to be reassigned to another planet such that that planet can launch them on another target

Just out of curiosity, what is everyone using as their raiding packet? ex. I use 5 fighters and 1 ST as a standard package. Sometimes i might combine to packets if i have a suspicion about a target planet.

Otherwise, i only use my 2 recyclers to hit the asteroids. The others dont draw resources properly since that is not their design function.