BadNerd

Reply to Strategy for an Expanding Empire in Strategy Sins Forums

One tip on your fleets: Up the number of Missile Frigates in them (From 5 to 15-20 or so, ideally). They are dirt-cheap and very effective in large groups. And TEC get the best ones. That *SHOULD* allow you much more "Punch" out of your fleets for a relatively minor investment, and with the extreme range of the Frigates, you will manage to inflict some more casualties on the enemy before they manage to jump to another planet. Remember that any ship that successfully runs away will be re

Reply to Total noob, i need help from the get go. in Strategy Sins Forums

--Don't upgrade your fleet-size before you have to. The loss of 9% adds up. --Don't build more research-facilities than what is required for your next handful of research. pace yourself --Don't invest in Mining-technology until there are no easily available planets for colonization. Generally, it's more cost-efficient to settle a new planet and buy extractors for a few hundred credits, than the cost of researching the rather small upgrades to mining. --Trade...don't ne

Reply to Bombers and Fighters.. help in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote]a quiestion: if i kill a figher/bomber dock (either ship or hangar), what happens with them?I never really took the time to look...ty[/quote] I do believe that they stay. So even if you kill off the Hangars or Carriers, you still need to swat the flies. ;p

Reply to Bombers and Fighters.. help in Strategy Sins Forums

1) Bombers and fighters move at insane speeds, so they can intercept enemies faster than anything else. 2) With the exception of Flak and other Fighters, there's only a 10% chance of an enemy even HITTING a Fighter or Bomber, and if the odd one is lost, they are rebuilt quickly. The sum is, that the fighters and bombers themselves are virtually impervious to attacks from a fleet that isn't specifically prepared to counter them. 3) Fighters are meant to counter Light and Very Li

Reply to Preventing Enemy Ships From Slipping Through in Strategy Sins Forums

Well...if you have a human player trying to bounce through your system to get to your back, I guess the best thing to do is to make him pay a price for each of your gravity-wells he moves through. To me, the best solution would be, as others mentioned, Hangars with Phase Jump Inhibitors. Fighters and Bombers cross a gravity-wells 3-4 times faster than anything else, so any fleet moving through will be smacked around a bit for each planet it passes, almost from the get-go. PJI's increase

Reply to best mass unit in Strategy Sins Forums

...but returning to the initial question: *IF* you were going to mass one vessel, what would it be? (As in: For the rest of your game, you would only be allowed to use ONE type from each category) Frigates: Long Range Frigates, especially the LRM. They do 75% damage against Heavy, Very Heavy and Capital...but that's honestly not bad at all, considering the numbers you can amass, and the range they have. Cruisers: That's a no-brainer, I think: Heavy Assaults all the way

Reply to Defense 101 in Strategy Sins Forums

I think it's important to distinguish between defending against a human player, and defending against a computer-player. Granted, I haven't played games against computer-players of all difficulties, but their tacticts are certainly much more straight-forward than what a human might come up with. Against a computer-player, you can more or less expect an attack on you planet to happen in a relatively straight line from the Phase entry-point and to your planet. If you choke that a