The Energon Pub

[City Commander]

Quitting does earn you a kick in the balls and a bitch slap from the noobs for cowardice.


Keep at it. If a player's pushing you, report them. If not, just keep building up your defences until they're dead in the water.

It won't be long until I'm space-worthy. Hold on till then, and I can send you all of my air support (what, with my own system being fairly quiet and all).

[quietsphere]

Hey, I just started up. I sent an alliance app on u20 and u37. I have the same name, Quietsphere. I was only able to play hmw for a few days, seemed pretty fun. Ogame reminds me of earth2025 scaled up, don't know if anyone knows that one.

[Chaoslock]

Anybody else getting an emergency login page in ogame?

[Bristleback]

Damn it, there must be a way to kill probes, I had a load of probe reports when I signed back in.

[Psychout]

I'm thinking I'll take a page from Dealer play book. I'm abandoning U37.
If you need me, I'll be takeing over U20.

I thought he point of us being an alliance was that we all fought together in the same universe, so wtf is the point of quitting just cos you get raided?

Put your balls back in their sack and get back to 37 winey.

[Chaoslock]

I'm using my Uni20 base as a research facility, to know how much each upgrade will cost (since nobody bothered to attack me there).
So far, the lv.4 Impulse drive that is needed to get a cruiser costs 16K metal, 32K Crystal, 4.8K Deut, and 8 hours to research .

(While a Coloniser Ship costs 10K Metal 20K Crystal and 10K Deuterium)

[Psychout]

Got my first ever battle results in...

The attacker has won the battle!
He captured
1.700 metal, 1.700 crystal, and 1.700 deuterium

The attacker lost a total of 0 units.
The defender lost a total of 0 units.
At these space coordinates now float 0 metal and 0 crystal.

Off to a good start, Just a shame they take so long to execute.

[Symbiote Spiderman14]

Don't know if you guys know this but the have a caculator like hmw does to calculate how much resources and research costs for things
http://www.o-calc.com/

[City Commander]

Neato.

Looks like it's gonna take quite a few robotics lab upgrades to get things running smoothly.


I highly recommend going for the nanite lab first then; see if that majorly chops the build times.

[Dragonoth]

You can also get the output and energy costs of mines if you click on their pictures. That can help if you are thinking about building the next level of mine but don't have enough energy. You can calculate percentages based on energy shortage.

I only have the first several levels because I am a n00b. Note that this is for metal mines. Crystal mines require the same energy and deuterium stations take twice as much. Crystal mines output 67% as much resources as metal of the same level, and deuterium produces only 42% as much as metal.

L.0 20m and 10c and 0d (not included in other levels), 0e.
L.1 33p, 11e
L.2 72p, 25e
L.3 119p, 40e
L.4 175p, 59e
L.5 241p, 81e
L.6 318p, 107e
L.7 409p, 137e
L.8 514p, 172e
L.9 636p, 213e
L.10 778p, 260e
L.11 941p, 314e
L.12 1129p, 377e
L.13 1346p, 449e
L.14 1594p, 532e
L.15 1879p, 627e
L.16 2205p, 736e
L.17 2577p, 860e
L.18 3002p, 1001e

Crystals: 67% p, same e
Deuterium: 42% p, 200% e

At my level, I have to calculate whether upgrading a mine without having the resources to upgrade the solar plant will provide more resources or not based on this system and on what resource I need most.

[Pot Bot]

woot, havent been attacked all day, looks like bitching at the mods did some good. 14k of metal to spend and a whole lot of other stuff woot

[Malicron]

Okay, I'm looking forward to getting home today. I logged on, saw an attack comeing, and doubled my defences! This poor sap dosen't know what he's walking into. Even if this dosen't stop him in his tracks, he's gona walk away with a hell of a black eye.

[Pot Bot]

unless he has about 50 death stars

[Malicron]

He's two systems away and had an hour and a half travel time: way to fast for DeathStars.
Still, 8 RRs isn't alot, so I might still get my overconfidant @$$ handed to me.

[Pot Bot]

dont rely too much on traveltimes, they can always be sped up, but its probably a few heavy fighters or summin

[Malicron]

the deathstar has 100 speed, it would take days to hit me.

[SlashAndBurn]

He's two systems away and had an hour and a half travel time: way to fast for DeathStars.
Still, 8 RRs isn't alot, so I might still get my overconfidant @$$ handed to me.

What U is this in?

I'm in 20 and once I rebuild from a miserably failed offensive I'll be able to lend a hand in future battles.

[SlashAndBurn]

in Universe 20:
I wanted to pass along this little scouting report.
Keep in mind though I've hit him 6 times in the last 24 hrs. He might complain if too many people from our alliance come knocking.


Resources on Homeworld [1:223:9] (Player 'Gabyx')
at 02-22 23:30:53
Metal: 1.122.716 Crystal: 135.828
Deuterium: 3.444 Energy: 117

[Bristleback]

If anyone is interested in Uni 37 Buddah_monk 2:39:4 may well be an easier raiding target after his forces crashed against my defences. Maybe someone can profit from it, he has got at least Heavy Fighter tech as that was the best he sent against me.

[Malicron]

http://uni37.ogame.org/game/index.php?page=bericht&session=61ab94a072db&bericht=918397
He may have won the battle, but he lost more in ships than he took in resorces.

[quietsphere]

I feel really vulnerable on my two planets right now. I have been trying to get to building defenses asap. I can't help but wondering if I'm being dumb wasting early resources towards defense too early or if I wait too long, I will get owned the second I get fattened up enough to be a worthwhile target.

Anyone have any tips on when I could expect to have to defend myself or maybe a guide on general build practices? I have been specifically aiming to get a shipyard on my planets, now that I have the option on one I realize it will take a while to build and I wonder if I should just build more mines and do a rapid deployment of defense by saving up and building alot of robot factories first.

You guys are further along with all of this, any advice would be awesome.

- Update - Wow, for some reason I was misreading shipyards as being 4 hours to build when they are only 4 minutes. lol, not really gonna slow me down that much then after all.

[Chaoslock]

I'm getting 7-8 spy probes a day, but no attacks. Lucky them...
My defense at the moment:
10 Rocket Launchers
8 Light Lasers

(2 Light Fighters)

[SlashAndBurn]

I'm getting 7-8 spy probes a day, but no attacks. Lucky them...
My defense at the moment:
10 Rocket Launchers
8 Light Lasers

(2 Light Fighters)

Yeah that'll keep them away.

A win/loose tactic I've been using is to always spend so there isnt too much of a resource surplus. The good: No one wants to bother with my defenses to get less than 7k total of resources. The bad: In order to upgrade my buildings or research an expensive tech I have to wait for a big score to come in.

[City Commander]

Apparently someone attacked me while I slept. They got about 2k each. Didn't have any defence up, as I didn't think anyone would bother with such a low level planet.

Next attack is in 30 minutes.
Still, I've managed to afford 2 rocket launchers (meager i know), and I've shut down all my mines. I've spent what I can on research and defense.


The most they'll get is a headache and some crystals.

[City Commander]

UPDATE!


I think they were banking on me having no defences, because only one rocket launcher was built in time.


It blew their small cargo outta the sky


Mines are operational, and I'm now working on seriously beefing up my defense.