Race strats !

Lq/to popbanker:
This is the strongest type of banker there is.
Plz set reseach on 50% eco and 50% con !
start with building 100% lqs on new planets.
Once all new planets are built once with lqs.
Tear down infra on 10 planets at the time and swap to fb with lqs.
Once a planet max out with pop you dubbeljump with tos at once.
Once you have done this to all planets and your pop have maxed
out you dubble jump with lqs once more.
Keep 1 planet a system well protected with lots of lasers and
have no lasers on the remaining planets.
Once you reach 100 planets built the second time with lqs you
should enter save mode and stock up several 100 mill gc next
set welfare to 100% in reseach menu thus you effectivly jump
your income a lot without making a singel building.
Your con lower building costs.
Your eco rasies your income.
Your welfare raises the number of ppl who can live in a living quarter.
Your pop takes time to come in wich means you should always begin with
jumping lqs prior to jumping tos.
ALWAYS make max nr of eships no matter what else never stop doing this.
If you cant explore at the momnet stock up on them until things happens
wich allow you to start explroing again.
get 100ish eships before you even concider to stop building them.

cf/rc banker:
By using this strat together with a a 50% reseach of eco and con
you will have a very rapidly growing cf banker and a very rich one to.
And its the most easy strat to use as you just split spots on a planet
between rcs and cfs when building.

Cf/to banker:
This is often a prelude to going lq/to banker as its easy to swap by
means of tearing down all cfs on 10 planets at the time and swap with
a dubble jump of lqs instead.

Strategies !

Chicken run strat:
This is the best strat you can use if the foes are WAY stronger then you.
Send half the fams income to fam bank meanwhile use the rest to
build a secondary core elsewhere.
Have each attacker make 2-3 huge lasertraps close to hs.
While stocking up in the fam bank wait for lots of attackers
to brake their fleet while taking over ur core.
As soon as they hit many traps at once the most active attackers in our
fam split the fam bank and jump as high as possible to outjump the foes.
Begin with retaking the core as its the least deffended planets they got
as its what they took last.
once the core is back into our hands start raiding their members inside their own core.
Like this they look strong they overextend themselfs and once they lose most fleets
they wont get a chance to regroup cos of the huge stack in the fam bank.

Banker raids:
Test a hostile fams bankers by means of masssending minifleets
to see if they got a decent deffence.
If you do 1-5 attacks and fail to see any deffence stop attacking at once.
Get a plist of the banker and devide up hes planets between 3 of ur fams
most active members bankers or attackers thoesnt matter.
Have em send to 1/3 of hes planets each and have 2 report to the third
once all fleets are hovering.
When all 3 are online next time they wait for a tic to pass.
After wich they hit all planets reapidly.
These planets are then spread in the fam so all members get
portals up there fast so our fam can take over the hostile fams core.

Focused targetting:
Pick out the biggest banker or the strongest attacker.
remove all hes reseach with ops.
Kill hes fleet by means off running him.
strip him of hes spread out planets to our attackers benefit.
Finaly raid him in their core.
Once done with that target we pick another target and work
him over until hes floating dead in the water or deletes.

opwar:
If we get attacked a lot by a fam we do infils and spy
on target to map the foe.
If we notice that the foe are way to strong in eco or
have a extremly low opdeffence we start a opwar to
cripple their eco as much as possible after wich
we stock up for 2 days for major fleet jumps.
Once the foes fleets are destroyed they wont
be able to replace em anytime soon.
Wich means that we have effectivly created a
rape victim and in most instancies will their
leader show up relativly soon in fam chatt !

2vs1 core assaults:
Both fams start to grab smaller fams 3-5 tics
outside the targets core from smaller fams.
Once the portals comes up they start to grab
a planet each garrison heavily and wait for portals.
Once portals comes up systems are cleared lasers
are built and a new set of systems are invaded.
This may ressult in 2 fams taking over a targt fams core.

infil strats:
when you have made a infil of a foe you can learn a lot from it.
Who are hogs ? (Op these to the ground to get the foes infra balance off)
who are fam bank ? (use destroy iron and destroy cash extensivly)
Who team with who ? (If we get a big problem with a setern attacker
killing hes banker might slow him down a bit ! )
Who are a popbanker ? (use 2 hypno and 3 estorms a sk Bankbuster
to get him down to 5k pop no matter hes orginal popsize.)
new planets ?(try send a minifleets as you will take most using such small fleets.)
newly taken planets ?(Try send midsized fleets as you will take most doing that.)

more to come once the ic server f*cks up again !