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Topic: droids x soldiers - new strategies

lets keep a record here of the new impressions of the relation droids x soldiers.

i can see strategies of defensive / offensive fleet

soldiers NEVER attacking, only on bor to take non-portal planets and station with higher defense.

droids (imo) should be more expensive and more powerful. this way we would use it only to attack and be careful in it use like it is in fighters use. .. maybe even hide droids and stuff.

raiding bankers with droids until enough to send with soldiers and station. after taking portals imediatelly sending ships with soldiers to station, keeping the droids there until soldiers arrive?

how military science will affect on this?

we need the IC players who knows math pretty well to make the calculations..
where are you flint, selur and yakitake?

this is the far i can remember now of thinkings after a few beers...

improve this conversation will allow new players to know better the game too.

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Re: droids x soldiers - new strategies

impressive. 0 answers

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Re: droids x soldiers - new strategies

Well, you asked someone to do math and named flint. Exactly how many responses did you expect?

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Re: droids x soldiers - new strategies

> sad sKoE )= wrote:

> Well, you asked someone to do math and named flint. Exactly how many responses did you expect?

lol

flint was an example. maybe with you we can have more answers?

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Re: droids x soldiers - new strategies

already did the math, it's rather funny what the results are. expected some math in here WAY earlier, so I'm not gonna post it until somebody else does smile.

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Re: droids x soldiers - new strategies

Fat chance

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Re: droids x soldiers - new strategies

if I get bored later I might But I am a banker this round so could care less at the moment to do the calculations tongue

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droids x soldiers =/


rather kinky there!

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Re: droids x soldiers - new strategies

yeah, considering bankers are already -90% behind an attacker with no fear even without the attacker having any research it doesn't really have any effect on banker defence. you'll still have enough to keep from being raided, knowing you have no hope of stopping an attackers fleet if they're determined to get through
as for attackers using soldiers, personally i'd rather just kill the other attackers' fleet first so i don't need the extra defence smile
on the other hand, they may be useful for defence while your fleet is out?

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yeah, but if you catch their fleet at home you're probably gonna win smile

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yeah.. im trying to use soldiers as defense and droids as attack and in the end i lack attack power and my defense is not too much..

the station system is too time-wasting and i couldnt really made it work.. but i think only for station purposes and at BOR it can really work

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i just came back not two weeks ago. this is what i think

I think every attacker should have a certain number of sols to station on key planets to give a defence bonus along with stationing other droids to hold it. But i belive attackers more keyed on resourceing than being HC should have a pluthera of Soldiers just like a banker. And they could be used for holding key planets in systems becuase they would automaticly have no fear, a slashed mili bonus, and droid/solders so they would be fit for that. What i dont understand however, is the math that states soldiers still being more expensive than droids. with new resource research and an influx of endo and iron in the market, prices are set so low now that i think soldiers would be the less expensive option.  But trying to split down the middle would drasticly decrease anything you can actually do

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Re: droids x soldiers - new strategies

I pretty much exclusively sat out and aided since this change was put in place. I'm very interested to hear more on how this is affecting strategy as I start an attacker empire now. I'm probably just going ot mass droids and rely on staying ahead in numbers and military research (and getting the jump on my prey--choosing your fights is 90% of IC) for defense. Because while any mix of soldiers in with the droids increases their defensive capacity, any mix of soldiers in addition to droids takes away from their offensive capacity. I'm eager to discuss this more as the round goes on. I haven't attacked in like 6 years. smile I'm surprised no one's got more to say on it, but I guess if bankers are massing soldiers and attackers droids, the change just means way more successful attacks and planets changing hands. tongue

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Re: droids x soldiers - new strategies

yes i agree..
the advantage to have both is to send mass fleets to attack and still have troops defending ur portals always!! no more emotion of unprotected portals

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Yeah, with the tradeoff that your attacking force is significantly weaker, limiting the targets you can successfully attack. tongue

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Re: droids x soldiers - new strategies

someone knows the new ground formula?

or just add some like 30% to the old formula

loss/0.023 + 30%

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Re: droids x soldiers - new strategies

I built 600k Soldiers by mistake. (those supposed to be droids) Was thinking about cancelling them but didn't.
Now that I have them, I can sleep a little better while my fleet is on its way to a distant planet.

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