raining begins...'an Illuminati Attacker is Greater than SS or Dependent. Attacking or Banking. Greater than Spec Ops, Resourcing, Marketing, and Leading. Illuminati are Leaders whom use all at our disposel.
I may become vague to enforce my empire security and trade secrets. Good Luck & Happy Hunting!!'

Chapter I
Concise Brevity:

SoR

Build 2 tranny *military production option
Build 2RF, 20MF, 5HF, the rest RC. *use the market.
Research is adjusted to 100%Construction.
2nd build= CF to 5000gc income. *balance other buildings as needed. notice there is a 5~10:3 ratio of MF to RF. and a 3:1 of RF to Oct. HF production is 1.5x needed amount of food to keep safe of starvation and reduced food production amounts. build to 2x needed amount when infra is producing adequate flow of supply.

Our goal is power to produce 6 eShips per 24hrs. Once able we build 6 per day no matter other activity. we mass send later. meanwhile we begin aiding fam.

if fam already using Illuminati Strategy/Tactics as a whole at SoR, then use of Fam Bank is a must. if Illuminati SSAttacker stick to the plan.
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Military Production

By now we have 5000CF/ 50MF/ 5RF. Total research points output% given in AOS = nw or greater tallied. if not make it so, because at this point we are producing 6 eShips + about 60 tranny per 24hrs.
at 100 tranny gear and switch production to 100 bombers. next 100 figs. then 200 droids, and when complete add 65 agents/65 wizz and begin attacks. *adjust as wanted but stay close to instruction to be quick.
*note: the first two tranny which are built at SoR make an Illuminati's Fam 'Weapons Hot' in 12tks. An Illuminati or respective's Fam has a Sniper option open at this time. exercise with awareness.
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Fam SoR Race Build

3 Bankers
2 Partax Resourcers
4 Attackers
3 Camaar

*adjust as wanted
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Chapter II
Mass Expo:

If Illuminati SSAttacker (ISSA), then day 5~6 Illuminati are ready for mass expo phase. it is possible to be ready sooner with Fam aid and is encouraged. Illuminati Add to SS skills, knowledge and wisdom. We may send and receive aid with great benefit, even though technically our empire infra is set up for SS. Illuminati are advanced compared to typical SS in that aiding/receiving, aid, to and from Fam, is encouraged.
In cases where more expo cash is needed to complete a mass send, stop other productions and focus on expo/assault fleet sending, as the goal here is more planets for building space. So if ISSA/IA gain more by attacking, *at less cost then expoing, it makes sense to planet snatch the extra build space needed, while storing eShips. Or better yet expo and attack at the same time. send eShips to distant map cords early for nice large network of spread. Next portal and planet snatch. Station 5~20 figs/ground and build 1~5 lasers. All this is quicker/easier with Fam aiding but may be done as SS alone also when times are tough.

*(5000gc cost to send attack compared to 10000gc cost to send expo)+ eShips are lost compared to well reusable assault fleets once built.)

**It may be desired to adjust Research at this time to 40%Welfare/ 43%income/ 17%Construction.
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Chapter III
Combat:

Focus, determination, organization, & action are the life energies- "Force" of Illuminati. Notice but ignore distractions. Focus on the task at hand. To be a success, obliterate the enemies will to fight. Use info, diplomacy, all game-legal "tricks of the trade" Illuminati imagine, to defeat our adversaries.

"The use of spies is of utmost importance to a General" -Sun Tzu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_War

Gain as much info as is possible on enemies. IC Ops/Spell use is underrated and under used. Lacking more-so is Family organized Ops/Spell strikes, such as mass deportalling (sab.portal/cpff) of target empires. more planets may be taken at less cost and damage to Illuminati (and other Players) yet it is common to bash one's units against portals in even mundane task of cleaning one's own Fam of Inactives. Imagine the damage of an entire Fam jumping agents and all nuking one enemy empire as the agent jumped fam comes online. the international nature of IC allows possible 24hr nuke sessions. As one empire is destroyed; another may be fired upon.
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Reconnaisance
www.silenz.org
http://www.imperialconflict.com/forum/v

Back, now before i get into the essentials of attacking first i'll cover banking.

Now if you've chosen the path of a banker your sole goal is to make cash for your family (not yourself) this means you make the buildings that produce cash ... NOT buildings that produce anything else ...

what makes cash than you ask? Cash Factories, Living Quarters, and Tax Offices.

If your playing pinwheel your best bet is to go a Cf/To strat, which means your primary buildings will be Cash Factories and Tax Offices, ok so say that maybe you this, but your not sure how, when, and where to make these buildings?

Again here's my output on this, it's a fairly simple strat and it works flawlessly, sadly i'm not a nerd that calculates everything, however i've played for years and just testing different things and tweaking them has brought me to my conclusions.

First as a CF/TO banker what you want to do is start off making nothing, but CF's till your income reaches around 80k (gross income). At that time you will be introducing Research Centers into your equation, how many?  well you make 30% of your buildings Rc's to figure out what your building ratio is go to Council and Infra Summary.

Your main goal is still to be making CF's and the way you'll go about getting 30% Rc's is as followed:

Ok lets say today you've logged into your empire, and you had some cf's building overnight. Your income has now reached 85k, your attacker (or fam) has sent you a nice bit of iron and endu to continue your growth ... what do you do first?

Well first you use up your iron making more cf's, you want to fully build your planets with cf's THAN go back and OB with rc's till your ratio is 70% cfs 30% rcs ... really not too hard to figure out. Now why ob with rcs? and how? First you'll want to ob with rcs instead of building rcs than ob'ing with cfs, because their cheaper and doesn't require iron to make. You'll be using the advance building mode feature to accomplish this.

Now you've managed to finally get your ratio to 70/30 perfect! keep it that way, you have to constantly mantain it. Also fund 3-4 ticks of aid into your science every morning when you first login before you do anything else, this may sound like alot, but the goal is to get your science moving fast. Switch to 100% income science bonus and in about 3 days i'd say you'll have atleast 40% science bonus from this method and only growing even more.

Now as far as science goes, once your income bonus has reached 60% switch your %'s to 60% income 40% construction. As time goes on you'll notice this will give you a severe advantage over most bankers as your making much more money than them, and it's cheaper for you to continue doing so.

Keep up with this process until your gross income reaches around 700k. Now you'll be switching to Tax Offices (To's). You'll want to view each planet, planet by planet and raze every rc's that you have (will take a few minutes), you wait until the next tick (so your nw drops and science increases abit) and replace the rc's with to's. Now if you plan this switch out ahead of time (say organize jumps) you should have the iron needed to fully to this process and continue on.

From here on out you'll be funding science 4 ticks of aid a day, that will be your primary source of rp's (research points) even if your revalons it'll still be enough.

That's pretty much it as far as the money making aspect of banking goes, keep your CF/TO ratio to 70/30, fund 4 ticks of aid, and watch the millions roll in

~ Cloud

lol

Cloud id love to read all of that shit... But its basically for n00b players fresh out of virgo

Frenzy
My President is black, infact hes half white so even in a racist mind hes half right

Attacking, now attacking is alot more complex than bankering or resourcing so i can really only give you a general idea on how to attack, you will develop your own methods though experience.

Now when round first begins, your role as an attacker is to get your bankers income as high as possible and to gather spread for yourself, YOU DO NOT BE A CASH HOG ok? if your demanding all your bankers cash for personal growth, you'll never be the best. The best put their banker above all even theirselves.

I hate when people why and moan about not growing and "if i were working alone id be at X amount of iron income right now" those guys are morons and should be killed rather quickly.

In BOR (which could last a few weeks) primary growth is on bankers, attackers only get WHAT THEY NEED, nothing more nothing less.

Ok hope you understood that ..... now onto other things

first off here are some simple key things any attacker should know:

- Only have 1 planet per system, all extra should be given to the family (starting with your banker) doubles only drain your morale, and you need that right?

- Always check your core daily, maybe 2-3 times a day, because if your not checking it .... who is?

- If you spot someone in your core that isn't an ally or family member (or napped fam), remove them ... simple ... don't ask for permission, don't message the guy asking why he explored there. He explored there to try to rape your asshole later .... so remove him and move onto the next (doesn't matter if their the #1 fam and your fam is #20, remove him)

- A good attacker goes to sleep with negative morale

- When attacking a portal, or a unknown (dont know if there is a portal or not) only send in fighters first to see if they have left fighters out. If they have save the attacker report and review it, if you lost more than them that obviously means:

A) they have more fighters than you

B) they DO have their fighters out, in which case you should contact the person in your fam with the most fighters and see if hes around the area to fighter run him.

ok now if they lost more fighters than you, 1st you need to know how many fighters they have. There is a tool in strategy (i think spookys "something") where you paste the air report and it'll tell you the numbers.

Once you know the numbers well you know what you need to know, continue hitting with only fighters for about ... i'd say another 6-8 runs, on the 8th run send fighters AND bombers. than the 9th everything.

if you fail the ground attack (or win) add up your losses and divide by .27 that'll tell you how much ground you need to break the guy.

Theres plenty more basics, but that's good enough for now.

ok now back to BOR. You want to be exploring for your banker to reduce cost of exploration, and also if you have a science bonus it reduces costs of building. You do this until you can no longer pass off planets to bankers (your under 35% of their nw)

While doing this you want to grab up some spread for yourself. By doing this you'll want to open the mapgen and looking around abit, where are cluster of planets at? what are some good defence spots to hold your fams cores? what are some good vantage points for later to rape someone? pick and choose wisely as early spread is very important

Do not make soliders unless absoluetly needed (war time situation and thats all you can make)

always try to keep 2x as many trannies as you need for ground

Always try to keep a very high agent amount, why you ask? well 1 obvious reason is to not get opped, but let's take this a step further ... if your enemy cannot op you with any ops in their arsenal they cannot gain intelligence on you. This means they have no idea how many lasers you have, how big your fleet is, who sends things to you, what planets you've attacked, nothing they are blind.

* will continue

~ Cloud

he is a hurrendous noob instead!!

jokes!

you know i love u cloud

nice

Some prefer 75/25, this is my personal strat on banking i do 70/30

~ Cloud

you'll make the most cash with 75:25 for CF/TO

Is there any formula I can use to calculate the no. of figs I need to send so that I don't lose more than 2.3% of my figs?

the figure of .027 varies depending on ur attack bonus, military bonus and whether or not you have used no fear though.

Hmm... well back then, attack bonus wasnt in question (bugged). So I think all formulas are likely wrong atm due to research bonus etc.

1:30am here kinda tired, mighta left something out or typos ... but thats life

~ Cloud