Hello and Goodbye
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Hello and Goodbye
Just letting you people know that I Downloaded SGE on Sunday of this week.
Never played it before; never even heard of it until last Saturday. But it looked like fun, so I tried it. And I regret trying it.
As I suspected would help, I started out playing on one of the Newbie servers and was thoroughly disappointed. Each day (for five days), I signed in and found that I had been destroyed (despite reasonable precautions to hide in 'protected' space) and had to start over again. The fourth and fifth sessions, I had my colonies invaded and all my work was trashed despite playing hard enough to rush build defenses.
I'm sure some of you people enjoy 'PK' style games ... but this is more than a bit ridiculous. If you want SGE to grow in popularity and become more fun for yourselves, you have to accomadate multiple play styles, no pander to the 'PK-ers' ... maybe even slight the PK-ers somewhat.
So after just 5 days of inhabiting my hard drive, SGE has been removed, and I will advise my friends to avoid SGE due to this fact.
Have fun blowing each other up, but you can do it without me.
Good-bye.
Never played it before; never even heard of it until last Saturday. But it looked like fun, so I tried it. And I regret trying it.
As I suspected would help, I started out playing on one of the Newbie servers and was thoroughly disappointed. Each day (for five days), I signed in and found that I had been destroyed (despite reasonable precautions to hide in 'protected' space) and had to start over again. The fourth and fifth sessions, I had my colonies invaded and all my work was trashed despite playing hard enough to rush build defenses.
I'm sure some of you people enjoy 'PK' style games ... but this is more than a bit ridiculous. If you want SGE to grow in popularity and become more fun for yourselves, you have to accomadate multiple play styles, no pander to the 'PK-ers' ... maybe even slight the PK-ers somewhat.
So after just 5 days of inhabiting my hard drive, SGE has been removed, and I will advise my friends to avoid SGE due to this fact.
Have fun blowing each other up, but you can do it without me.
Good-bye.
Heres some facts for you:
Protected space (u.n) does protect you fully, if you can pay the tax.
The tax is your experience - reputation (plus reputation if your evil) if you cant pay it, you get booted.
Ports are the same, but are usually only 4k per hour. Your safe there.
You must build a solar cannon and defences to make your colony un-invadeable, otherwise it will easily get taken.
You must follow these points, otherwise you will get killed and invaded.
There is also "pax" servers which dont allow you to be invaded or killed, but you cant get people from earth in sol (only from ports) and the biodomes are much more expensive.
Protected space (u.n) does protect you fully, if you can pay the tax.
The tax is your experience - reputation (plus reputation if your evil) if you cant pay it, you get booted.
Ports are the same, but are usually only 4k per hour. Your safe there.
You must build a solar cannon and defences to make your colony un-invadeable, otherwise it will easily get taken.
You must follow these points, otherwise you will get killed and invaded.
There is also "pax" servers which dont allow you to be invaded or killed, but you cant get people from earth in sol (only from ports) and the biodomes are much more expensive.
I think I quit for the same reason about a year ago... but the game is just too unique and fun to quit for good.
I know its a helluva frustrating to loose all your colonies, especially if you put all your eggs in one basket.
Blacknova gave some of the best tips in the whole game.
-You need a solar for your colony to be viable.
-Ports and UN only work if you have credits to pay the tax.
Some of my advice would be:
-build far away from sol/starbases if you are building your main colonies (Building practice near sol is fine)
-If you are colonizing, you want +rep so you can get colonists from ports. Otherwise you get stuck like me having to cannibalize neighbors to start colonies
-No matter how good your defenses or system is, planet layout is key. (Some planet layouts have a single path to the dome and are solar-distract immune, and others have built in nuke traps in the walls.)
Again there are some AWESOME guides in the forums. Use them!
I know its a helluva frustrating to loose all your colonies, especially if you put all your eggs in one basket.
Blacknova gave some of the best tips in the whole game.
-You need a solar for your colony to be viable.
-Ports and UN only work if you have credits to pay the tax.
Some of my advice would be:
-build far away from sol/starbases if you are building your main colonies (Building practice near sol is fine)
-If you are colonizing, you want +rep so you can get colonists from ports. Otherwise you get stuck like me having to cannibalize neighbors to start colonies
-No matter how good your defenses or system is, planet layout is key. (Some planet layouts have a single path to the dome and are solar-distract immune, and others have built in nuke traps in the walls.)
Again there are some AWESOME guides in the forums. Use them!
I don't understand why newbies have such struggles. When I first started I started several newbie servers and just kinda screwed around learning things. I didn't even attempt to build cololnies or anything.
After I learned the basics of the controls I read the guides in the forums and also the wiki.
The first galaxy I played from begininng to end I earned a silver. The competition in most rebangs are non-existant really, I don't understand what these guys are complaining about...
Burnout
After I learned the basics of the controls I read the guides in the forums and also the wiki.
The first galaxy I played from begininng to end I earned a silver. The competition in most rebangs are non-existant really, I don't understand what these guys are complaining about...
Burnout
I always try to help new players get established having both pax and pk it is easy to teach them in pax on and planet types how to defend
also the key to survival on pk servers never piss off the top corps
Yes I have been burned by new players but the good overrides the bad
What I would suggest is list a group of volunteers that are new user friendly to help in learing building a col defending it and learning how to keep from bein podded in pk servers while offline
some of the pk fighters should start a fight school ( I seen Uzi's) and help teach new players also
I volunteer for al the above catagories but the fighting I am just too nice to kill for pleasure like some I know
heheheh
Toonces
grant these volunteers mod status on beginner servers to teach
if they don't do what is right then replace them with someone else
also the key to survival on pk servers never piss off the top corps
Yes I have been burned by new players but the good overrides the bad
What I would suggest is list a group of volunteers that are new user friendly to help in learing building a col defending it and learning how to keep from bein podded in pk servers while offline
some of the pk fighters should start a fight school ( I seen Uzi's) and help teach new players also
I volunteer for al the above catagories but the fighting I am just too nice to kill for pleasure like some I know
heheheh
Toonces
grant these volunteers mod status on beginner servers to teach
if they don't do what is right then replace them with someone else
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the kinda language ur using like " colonies " , " servers " , " PK" isn't the kinda stuff some mega noob thats been playing for barely 5 days wud know of...
I think ur just some random dude who felt like posting this stupid post for no reason and has no intention of quitting starport or already has quit starport.
I think ur just some random dude who felt like posting this stupid post for no reason and has no intention of quitting starport or already has quit starport.
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Are you a not-so-in-the-closet necropheliac?0zzy wrote:the kinda language ur using like " colonies " , " servers " , " PK" isn't the kinda stuff some mega noob thats been playing for barely 5 days wud know of...
I think ur just some random dude who felt like posting this stupid post for no reason and has no intention of quitting starport or already has quit starport.