Note that none of my races have TO's. They are all designed for SS gals without markets, i.e. galaxies where you have to be TRULY self sufficient. TO %'s get ruined by the amounts of res buildings you are forced to get.

Research centers always outperform funding unless you have reasons not to build them (such as TO %'s). Plus, even at high ob%, they remain (relatively) cheap.

Although your point about research being opped is a fair one. Again, I think it's up to personal preference. I myself like the early edge before science kicks in .

yes that is what I used to do, but I find it too much trouble to turn it off/on every time I go to the fleet page to trigger a fleet...

EDIT: council page as well, due to the planet links

Also, while you did add exceptions to the Map Links addon, you seemingly have not added these to the Fleet Boss addon. Due to this, I get the "Make sure you have IC Map Links installed" message when I try to access my ingame messages, and the a-button feature of Fleet Boss (where the bar on the bottom of the window pops up, in which you can input fleet numbers, as well as the ability to directly go to the attack page) does not work.

Could you please add the same exceptions to Fleet Boss as you did to IC Map Links, or at least remove the "Make sure you have IC Map Links installed" message?

Thanks in advance Toadies, you the best

EDIT: The Fleet page gives the same message.

378: Trans-Cosmic Proctologist

I really want this one. I NEED this one. On my honour as a medical student, I SHALL get this one!
Rogue, where are you, we need to get some mad amounts of points asap!

(perhaps someone could finally start handing out tag points for all the pvc's Rogue and I have done? (although Rogue's definitely outnumber mine by thousands ))

Although at the same time I feel that the 20 race points it costs to get Income from 40% to 50% is A LOT. these could be used to increase Attack or Research 20%, the latter perhaps being best (as in an SDSS round without market you will not only be making cash, but also resources. Resource income will benefit from resource science, and obviously won't from race Income).

This'd give a race like the following:

SS Test *No Market*

Population growth: -30%
Income: 40%
Research: 30%
Attack: 10%
Magic: -30%
Speed: 60%
   

Spells
No Fear
Space Amazement

Operations
Infiltrate
Destroy Units
Sabotage Portal
Planetary Infrastructure

Specials
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> Nox wrote:

> I thought 60 was gonna war 58 What was the point of this?

I still want to do that

Whenever there is an SDSS round, especially if it's with allies and no market, I like to be super agressive and kill everyone around me asap.
To be superaggressive early on however, you do need to sacrifice a few perks in your race. The most costly being science, which will give you a hard time may you survive till late round (I'd say from 2 weeks + you're already getting behind).

Eat Your Fugu!
I cannot see her tonight./ I have to give her up/ So I will eat fugu.//   

Population growth: -30%
Income: 40%
Research: -30%
Attack: 40%
Magic: -30%
Speed: 80%
   
Spells
No Fear
Space Amazement

Operations
Infiltrate
Place Nukes
Destroy Units
Planetary Infrastructure

Specials
Droid

Explanation of this race:
40% Income gives nice quick return on investment on CF's, very necessary to get a quick start to get ahead of the people around you. Without this upperhand you will only be able to catch people by surprise, with it you can actually take on prepared foes.
40% Attack makes that you can kill enemies with relatively smaller fleets. Very nice for portalbusting and killing people off, which is the sole purpose of this race.
80% Speed because as you start killing off more and more players, your travel time will become larger and larger. People will spread out to several systems as round develops, and to prevent people from retaking you'll want to kill them off in as few ticks as possible. During the round I played this race, the retake-delete gayness was very rampant, therefore prompting me to utilise this high speed to get around this.
-30% research is the major drawback of this race, but required to get the points for income, attack and speed.

This race has all the really necessary ops to attack: infiltrate to find out fleet numbers and portals (requires some dedication keeping infils up to date), DU to kill stationed units, PI to get laser counts. NF for easier attacking, SA for cheaper exploriation and spreading out.
FTP might be advised for people without VIP. Whenever I attack, I get VIP, so for me FTP wasn't necessary at all since it's 1 man fams, basically making a YAMA = plist.

This I might change:
- Remove nukes: Nukes are a very difficult op to land, and require you to almost be dedicated to building agents. Now this race requires some high agent counts to keep succeeding infils, but I feel like nukes are just a waste.
- Remove droids: with the recent changes I feel like droids are obsolete. One could utilise this race to go more CF and RS heavy, building less MF's, relying on sols primarily for ground. This would make better use of the 40% income.

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However, I've been playing around with the following idea to be used in galaxies for SDSS with allies:

Stage one: after getting my eco settled nicely with my high income % and speed, I can quickly start building portals and fleet. My race has major drawbacks that only become bigger as round progresses, so I will need to utilise it's pros asap.

Stage two: I grab planets early on, use my high income to make nice shortterm profit from my planets. My grabbing all these planets I create a buffer zone around me and my allies, so that my allies can easily infra up while I keep all threats at bay.

Stage three: One of my allies, preferably Quantam, starts overtaking me in economy due to his very nice science bonus. At this point he could start building my planets for me: I provide him with fresh/low ob planets, he does the expensive high ob planets, keeping some and passing some on to me. This'll ensure that I can keep up my economy without having to fund into science too much. Building fleet will still be a pain with my low con, and my income will never be as high as his, but at least I can survive until his science finally REALLY kicks in during late round.

I've tested a strategy very much like this one in an SDSS with allies round some time ago, in which I was allied to Munder and Parrot (who replaced Easyway after he had to quit). I knew that I was going on vacation 2 weeks into the round, and that therefore I couldn't finish the round. I decided to clear the way early on for Munder and Parrot to have as easy of a rest of round, giving Munder my planets when I left, which gave me a lot of fun in the process. Munder and Parrot (together with their later ally, Hc4e) went on to win the round.

I am already talking to you on irc. There is no need to make these kinds of remarks, just taking a dig at somebody in uni news, when you have already said them to me in my face and I haven't disagreed with them in this particular situation.

o.O

> Render wrote:

> yea Cloud has been raped 

surprise surprise

Yeah it's lame >:(

I'd think 55 has different worries...