Possible defence
| Type | Amount | Metal Cost | Crystal Cost | Deuterium Cost | Points |
| Rocket Launcher | - | - | - | - | - |
| Light Laser | - | - | - | - | - |
| Heavy Laser | - | - | - | - | - |
| Gauss Cannon | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ion Cannon | - | - | - | - | - |
| Plasma Turret | - | - | - | - | - |
| Total | - | - | - | - |
| Type | Amount | Metal Cost | Crystal Cost | Deuterium Cost | Points |
| Rocket Launcher | - | - | - | - | - |
| Light Laser | - | - | - | - | - |
| Heavy Laser | - | - | - | - | - |
| Gauss Cannon | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ion Cannon | - | - | - | - | - |
| Plasma Turret | - | - | - | - | - |
| Total | - | - | - | - |
[...] Defence Calculator [...]
a calculator showing what you would need to make an attack unprofitable depending on your resources would be nice
Just use Big gun, and have about 5k ~ 10k RL.
i have such a defence in NL u12, with mines 32-29-28 and i don’t need to login for about a week
Hello, i have 21-19-17 Mines
and i already have 400RL 200LL 30HL 20GC 30IC 3PT
what else should i build? and what type of defense should i use? Thanks.
you shou;d have at minimum 7 plasma turrets to draw with rips
I have 3 pure farm planets mines 31-29-26 in norm uni with defense on each as follows:
RL – 10,000
LL – 8,000
HL – 7,000
IC – 7,500
GC – 2,000
PT – 1,000
Only people to attack me ever were top two players on server using ACS Attack. They failed and lost huge points. Needless to say they are no longer on top… GO TURTLES!
Unlikely that the top two players in any uni don’t use a combat sim before launching a major attack. Were they hammered-drunk?
it would be nice to see a calc. that showed how many resourdecs it takes to build a certain amount of defences, like fleet builder but for defences.
lol i hafe
100.000.000 RL
50.000.000 LL
10.000.000 HL
1.000.000 GC
1.000.000 IC
+ 7.000 RIPS
You’re full of crap.
hahahah
Agreed. The fact that you neglected to mention any plasma turrets at all makes me doubly skeptic
Don’t you not want many rocket launchers at all in early game? Cruisers get ridiculous RF against RLs early on…it’s usually a good idea to wait until you start encountering battleships to start stocking up on RLs…
also it would be helpful if you could elaborate on which defense schemes are best against which types of ship. I imagine most will want to maximize their effectiveness against battleships.
How do you have this in mind?
Agenst battleships just build small lasers + gauss kannons or even better plasma kannons (one shots battleships^^)
- but only build this cind defence early into the game where ppl will tend to go for battleships for thair fleet because they are cheap, later in the game destroyers will dominate together with bombers and maybe fodder to crush defences and then small lasers suck as main fodder:P
Edit: 1 Gauss cannon takes out 1 battleship in 2 shots*
what is the best start up def consisting of small shield dome;lazer; heavy lazer; rockets; and ion cannon whats the best way to keep others off my back?
Well i had about 200k RL
50k LL
10k Hl
5k Gauss
3k Ion
722 PL
In Fin’s server and top 2 and top 1 player used ACS to me whit 150 RIPs
and they didn’t even got to profit they had pretty big losses =D
Using a simulator you would lose 265,385,000 Metal, 68,239,000 Crystal and 12,458,000 Deuterium and they wouldn’t lose one deathstar. Maybe you shuld make a better lie.
he didn’t mention research still possible if he had way more, but unlikely
here is my sim
Result Draw after 6 rounds
Debris Metal: 0
Crystal: 0 0 Recycler
Moon chance Chance that a moon arises is 0%
Losses attacker Metal: 0
Crystal: 0
Deuterium: 0
Losses defender Metal: 199.897.000
Crystal: 110.610.000
Deuterium: 20.556.000
Theoretic plunder Metal: 0
Crystal: 0
Deuterium: 0 0 Large Cargo
Real plunder Metal: 0
Crystal: 0
Deuterium: 0 0.00 % carga
should I skip HL and IC for saving crystal and do the rest?
haha i have:
50RL
20LL
2HL
1IC
beat that haha
defense alone will not help… U would need some fodder to back them up.. Build some 10K LF… that should be enuf wid 10K RL
200,000RL
20,000LL
5,000HL
500 Gauss
1,000 ion
1,000 plasma
oh and the tens of thousands of ships and 125 rips to top it of…….
and yes i know that’s a massive waste of resources but i don’t care i like farming…
(200M resources on that planet i like to be prepared)
i have found the best way of keeping my resources is to fleet save
with minimal defense just to put a deterrent factor there right now have
300 RL
125LL
100HL
15GC
25IC
and so far maybe lucky but also being smart haven’t been hit once probed yes but not worth the
minimal resources that i have after i fleet save
just hide your res through research and construction canceling. there are godzillas out there that can penetrate any defense with virtually no loss to them. just dont give them a reason to attack you. a friend was attacked and the debris was 20mil metal and 10mil crystal. he had 6500 RL, 4000 LL, 550 HL, 320 GC, 200 IC and 50 PT REPAIRED, so you can see how big of a defense he had. the attacker lost 100k res.
I am just starting and I dont even have 10 light lasers.
but would light lasers not be better fodder then Rocket launchers? its pretty much the same cost, but has better shield, and much better attack…
Destroyers have rapidfire against light lasers. They’ll rip them up. Normally people have more metal than anything else, so they build rocket launchers.
if this is so?? Then why don’t Turtles/Miners have two fodders? LL and RL?? They cheap as hell!!!!! and basicaly they won’t know what to do? 20k of each would do fine?.. as long as you keep making PL till your #1 on the universe?