Astro Empires

[Stylesrj]

Soon I'll have the biggest colonies I've built and have massive economies. Is 20 Metal Refineries, 15 Robot Factories and 5 Nano Factories enough. What else should be built? Androids?

 

[Bluemofia]

Well, "enough" is really subjective. I've got 24 Metal refineries, 20 robot factories, 13 nanite factories, and 7 android factories.

In the future, that'll probably not be enough, but it is now.

 

[Stylesrj]

Only problem is I'm a freeloader, so I don't get 13 Nano factories or I'd have 10 of them right now and wouldn't be complaining about the MLP issue
It still takes 90 hours for a MLP to be built and 90 hours for an orbital shipyard. Is there more that can be built to reduce build times?

 

[Bluemofia]

It still takes 90 hours for a MLP to be built and 90 hours for an orbital shipyard. Is there more that can be built to reduce build times?

Cybernetics research, Construction Commanders. And 90 hours is actually good time for me. My stuff takes the order of 150 to 300 hours for large projects. (P-rings, Multi Levels, Orbital Bases, Antimatter plants, etc.)

 

[jafink]

Most of my construction takes between 48 and 70 hours. Research is taking about 100 hours.

 

[Stylesrj]

Cybernetics takes forever to research and is a hell of alot expensive. If I were to increase AI, that would take even longer as that's expensive AND time-consuming...

 

[jafink]

Astro Empires has been boring me of lately. I think I will have to find someone to attack.

 

[Bluemofia]

Cybernetics takes forever to research and is a hell of alot expensive. If I were to increase AI, that would take even longer as that's expensive AND time-consuming...

Construction commanders then. No EXP? Go fight a war. Or 2. (or like me, 3 highly devastating wars.)

 

[Stylesrj]

I'm not going to seek a war. Building a fleet that will stand a chance will take even longer!!! I mean ODD is at war with BORG and I did get into one battle, but no XP gain from that (my recyclers were destroyed and they were recycling nothing)

 

[Bluemofia]

Well, there's nothing else you can do.

You can build more metal/robotic/androids/nanites.
Research Cybernetics
Train construction commanders.

That's all you can do to increase construction. Other than that, nothing. Learn to live with long construction times, and divert more credits into fleet to kill other people's fleets and recycle them into credits with good ratios (if you know what you are doing)

 

[Macha]

Bluemofia, I have applied to join NPO, I am level 31 with econ of 800, am I likely to be accepted?

 

[Bluemofia]

Yeah, though they might look at fleet more than econ.

I really don't know what they are looking for. Just that they will ask you if you are under any occupations or anything. And sorry about Gators Football attacking you. We will hunt independents, but not guilded people. (you should have stayed in UFC and then applied.)

 

[jafink]

RAGEX is at war with MIN and AEROC!!!!

This shoulld make the game more fun.

I will try to do my best to contribute in every way I can.

 

[Macha]

@Bluemofia

Your guild's rules say you must apply at the guild thing and ae means you have to leave your existing guild.

I got accepted anyway.

 

[jafink]

Now CoTD and OOBL have declared against MIN, meaning that this is a very one-sided fight. I would have liked it better if it was just RAGEX verse MIN.

RAGEX has also declared a Cease-fire with AEROC, just 36 hours after war was declared.

 

[Bluemofia]

@Bluemofia

Your guild's rules say you must apply at the guild thing and ae means you have to leave your existing guild.

I got accepted anyway.

Well, when I applied, I was waiting in my guild, ready to leave and join NPO, and basically remain independent as little as possible.

Ah well, maybe the rules changed since then. And we are in a delicate situation now with the MIN thing escalating.

 

[Stylesrj]

My bases are doing well. No attacks and I'm working on MLP and more orbital bases. In a few days (or weeks), I might get Planetary Rings (researched mind you. It'll take forever to buy one!)

EDIT: Make that a few months ! Research times sure are a lot now. Economy is another story. Saving up for the research will be difficult as well as researching the damned thing.

 

[Macha]

I know my average research cost is 20k. (I'm 800k research and 800 econ)

 

[jafink]

RAGEX has done a noble thing and declared peace with Min. We didn't want to fight such an unfair fight, we awnted it to be 1 vs. 1 Seeing as how that was not the case, we decided that it would be best to let Min have a chance.

 

[Stylesrj]

I have a 1150 economy. Does this count trade routes? I should build a bunch of Recyclers and go debris collecting