I ask again, how much time per day does this take? I can spend a few minutes on it probably but not hours and hours.

Have you not played a browser based game? It's like one of the three different kinds. It's the kind where you "build something" and you get income after a certain amount of real time. Log in once or twice a day. Spend all your money and gtfo while it builds for an hour.

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I ask again, how much time per day does this take? I can spend a few minutes on it probably but not hours and hours.

That's quite alright. It's not like you must play for two or three hours daily.

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Have you not played a browser based game? It's like one of the three different kinds. It's the kind where you "build something" and you get income after a certain amount of real time. Log in once or twice a day. Spend all your money and gtfo while it builds for an hour.

Sorta, except it updates every so often, determined by the hourly rate divided by 3600 and reciprocated. For example, with my +798 on Metal, I get +1 Metal approximately every 4.5 seconds.

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If I can go into the negatives with energy then whats the catch? Why build energy plants (or w/e they are called)

Click on the little icon next to your resource tab. Negatives drop your production % to compensate for the insufficient energy, and your production suffers. However, if you know you won't need certain resources in the near future, you can turn it down to compensate for insufficient energy.

I have played several, but some like dead frontier require hours of gameplay to be any good, whereas ones like urban dead require a few minutes each day to be good.

Aight I'll sign up, username Jack.

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We (or I) don't see the "online" column. Thats pretty useful. Why can't I see that ;_;

Was a privilege reserved for Regulars and up, forgot to change it. Should be fixed now, and Regulars and Members now have no distinction, other than a shiny different name tag >.>

EDIT: Well, if you'd like to improve upon our current logo feel free. MZ so kindly pointed out that our alliance page looks rather wimpy, so if someone is willing to beef it up, that'd be amazing. Only requirements are that the image is either in 100 quality .jpg or .png (preferred) format, and has the SEN globe in it. I might even throw in some minerals, if it looks decent enough too.

EDIT2: Just beware, OGame.org somehow messes up the transparency and gave the above image a watermark approximately where the alpha ends and pure transparency takes over. It's not too noticeable if you aren't looking for it, but for me it's one of those things that once you see it, it's like :x

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Feb 3 2011, 1:56 am by poison_us.

Gonna try it now.

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Okay.. I'm at 1:155:12

So it's a web based game?

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Feb 3 2011, 2:25 am by UnholyUrine.

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Gonna try it now.

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Okay.. I'm at 1:155:12

So it's a web based game?

Yessir. Entirely browser-based.

EDIT: I tried to fit the following in the OP, I really did, but I didn't like how it looked with all the nice formatting and whatnot.

I periodically will update the Internal Area, found inside the Alliance tab (click the Alliance tab on the left menu, make sure Overview is selected, and it should be the third collapsed item). This area contains some SC I & II news, though I'd imagine I'll have to rely on Loveless to update SC II news, which means it likely might as well not exist. It also contains updates to the Alliance's workings, or just general things I feel should be mentioned, like a Code of Conduct. "Circular Messaging" is my way of telling everyone in the Alliance of a reworking/update/etc. that is going on in the Alliance. Promotions/Demotions will also be announced through the Circular Messaging System. If you're not in our Alliance, don't sweat it, you won't have to deal with this anyways

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Feb 3 2011, 2:51 am by poison_us.

In the beginning, you start with 1 planet and almost no income. Buildings take mere seconds to complete. After a few days, buildings start taking a few minutes to complete and safe to say that this trend holds true for all aspects of the game - which is what largely generates it's success.

Everything increases exponentially as you play, and as the universe gets older. The more active players will increase slightly quicker than you, and as the whole exponential factor kicks in - they will be the ones on top. The game boasts different play styles to suit any kind of gamer (Raider/Attacker/Fleet-smasher for the very active and Turtle/Defender for the largely inactive).

As the game goes on you can get fleet-crushed, so it becomes imperative that you save your fleet at any given moment. You essentially send your fleet on a mission at a certain % of it's normal speed, with the aim of signing in to oGame a few minutes before your fleet returns home. Two things of importance here: 1) ALWAYS fleet-save. 2) ALWAYS fleetsave on a mission which allows you to 'recall' your fleet.. 3) ALWAYS sign on before your fleet comes home. This allows you to recall your fleet, because, let me tell you... there is nothing more terrifying than seeing your fleet returning in 60 seconds, and an enemy hostile fleet about to hit your planet in 61 seconds. And you know then, that in 62 seconds, your months of playing will be completely undone as you lose your entire fleet.

Tl;Dr, logging on 10 minutes a day is enough to play this game and stay in the upper 20%. Devoting more time to espionage (scouting opponents' planets, finding undefended 'farms', unsaved fleets etc) is what will put you further ahead. With good timing you can still pull off big hits, rake in lots of profit and only log in for about 15 minutes a day - provided you have the intel to know who to attack (through an alliance).

Hey now, those are some nice tips. Makes me feel pretty damn good about getting the espionage I've already been working on. Just ask Farty and/or LoveLess about how much I spy on them, even though they couldn't touch me

Also, I was going to ask you to elaborate on fleet-saving, but now I can see what you mean. Send ships out with the intention to keep them away from your base while you're AFK, so you don't get demolished all at once.

EDIT: Oh, I missed a planet type: Jungle. Updated.
EDIT2: And Water, though it doesn't look excessively watery...
EDIT3: And Dry...Hopefully the last missed one, too...

Post has been edited 3 time(s), last time on Feb 3 2011, 4:33 am by poison_us.

Ugh, I'm finding the game extremely wordy

and not in a good way like in Echo Bazaar...
.. don't think I'll be getting into this one, sorry.

That's cool, it gets less wordy later because eventually I stopped reading altogether. I know what I'm going for, though I do stop and use the calculator often to figure out what gives me more efficient stuffs.

Basically, if you're willing to give it a little more time, it might turn out to get better for you. If not, or you're not willing to give it another go, then that's alright too.

It's been so long, I wonder if my planets still exist, probably raided to hell by now.

Your resource plants won't be as effective. A quick analogy would be Protoss Buildings without pylons.

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If I can go into the negatives with energy then whats the catch? Why build energy plants (or w/e they are called)

Your resource plants won't be as effective. A quick analogy would be Protoss Buildings without pylons.

If pylons weren't all-or-nothing energy

It's more or less like powering a 60-watt bulb when you can only output 45 or 40 watts maximum...

Oh god. These new universes have the 'new and improved' GUI... Not sure I'll stick around. I preferred the old style.

Anyways, I've applied for the Alliance and I'm at 2:197:12.

Edit: Another gem of knowledge for you, when sending out your first colony ship - you want to aim for slots: 7, 8 or 9.



This chart shows the field sizes of planets according to their slots in the galaxy (1 to 15). The size of a planet determines how many buildings you can put on it. As a general rule of thumb, anything less than 140 should only be invested in for mining and short term expansion. For extremely competitive and long term play, you'll want all your colonies to have 200+ slots. This takes a lot of patience and a lot of scrapping and recolonising but is worth it in the long run. The new redesigned universes mean that there is no limit to the number of planets you can colonise - previously, you had a limit of 8 colonies + your Homeworld. Always keep one planet slot open for a 'staging' base. If you scan enemies in a far away galaxy who have a shit tonne of resources, set up a planet nearby and harass the hell out of them.

This is the battle calculator you should be using

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Feb 3 2011, 2:15 pm by Cardinal.

So basically, I lucked out with my first planet? Sweet. >.> I wish. No wonder all the highest ranking players own those numbers.

So... does anyone actually have a working shipyard with any kind of fleet yet?

Nope.

I've had a working shipyard for days now, but I haven't built much with it.

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So... does anyone actually have a working shipyard with any kind of fleet yet?

I have 6 Spy probes and one Small Cargo ship that I've been sending out to farm off of the inactives...I could make fighters, but honestly I'm trying to shore up my Metal/Crystal harvesting right now.

EDIT: According to that battle simulator, Loveless, you'd lose. That is, ignoring all researches we both have, because I apparently am unable to see yours now



EDIT2: Actually, doubt it would matter much, you'd need 7 heavies to make the chance close to a draw, and even more for a win.

EDIT3: It would also take some time for you to get here, in which I imagine I'd be able to build one more lazar, just in case

Post has been edited 4 time(s), last time on Feb 3 2011, 8:17 pm by poison_us. Reason: spalling :hurr: