Astrowars
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stacyt
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Your PP's will accumulate even if your not logged in. I only login when I want to change my science, or build something. Or if I'm bored and have nothing better to do.
The only thing that will not update without you logging in is your culture level. You must signon to update that.
The only thing that will not update without you logging in is your culture level. You must signon to update that.
sammystingray
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Beth, it starts really slow for a few days, but these first few days are CRUCIAL in getting a good civilization started and not falling behind those close by. As soon as you have the points for a factory....get one, and try to keep factories and farms about the same until they reach about 6 or 7. By then you will be getting closer to 15 or 16 PPs per hour. This is a "strategy" game, and fancy graphics aren't involved. Keep an eye on your map to see how those in your system are doing. Pretty soon as people grow and take new planets, they will all fill up and then you will be fighting for planets. When the new beta started, I had 20 planets and 550 PPs per hour, and it gets tough to even keep up with 18-20 planets in three sytems and spend cash where it needs to go...it does pick up. As your bio science grows, you will see more and more players and planets around you. Keep your science on social for now, because with only one planet contributing to science it goes slow, and your population will stop growing when it catches your social science. If you really JUST started, and you didn't pick a race.....I would tell you to start over, nothing fancy, just take the 12 labs and a minus 1 to energy. You'll make up the minus to energy easy, but the 12 labs to start with give you a huge advantage when starting. It's not the best race, but for a newbie, you really should take the labs atleast.
sammystingray
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Ty_05_f, you are VERY close to me, and we will see each other soon. My name is Johnny Wrath in AW. You are actually almost in the sytem directly next to me! We are VERY close.
elfdoctors
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Sammy is right. The first few days are slow but then it gets very interesting (particularly when you start interacting with other players). When you identify that a player is active and seems to be building up (and can speak your language), you should message them and ask for a NAP (non-aggression pact). If you can get a local ally, you will have a MUCH easier time controlling your system. Using that acronym will disguise that you are a newbie.
Beth, you are very far away (-38/61) from the NEMO center. We probably won't be able to help you this round. Where are the people in your system from? Last beta my initial system had people from the US, UK, Spain and France. I formed an alliance with the player from the UK (northern Ireland) and we were able to control the system.
This beta I am surrounded by NEMOs so I have no need to worry about defense yet. I have just launched to take my third planet already. I am now generating 28 PP's/hr which is a vast improvement from the 1 PP/hr I started with 5 nights ago. Your culture will not start to build up until you get the first cybernet. I would recommend buying a cybernet when you have 3-4 factories and farms. There are lots of ways to build up. Once you factor in different races, you will find that there is no perfect way to build up a planet (but almost everyone agrees that buying factories first and then farms is a great way to get going quickly).
Now you can see why it is recommended to sign in several times a day (even though there is very little that you can do early in the game, e.g. just buy that factory and log off). Over time as you gain interest, you will explore the website as there is a lot of information which becomes clearer after you have been playing the game for a while.
Feel free to message me within the game if you don't understand something (although questions posted in this forum from previous betas were one of the ways that I learned the most early on). If you don't understand something, there is a good chance that another newbie player doesn't understand it either.
Beth, you are very far away (-38/61) from the NEMO center. We probably won't be able to help you this round. Where are the people in your system from? Last beta my initial system had people from the US, UK, Spain and France. I formed an alliance with the player from the UK (northern Ireland) and we were able to control the system.
This beta I am surrounded by NEMOs so I have no need to worry about defense yet. I have just launched to take my third planet already. I am now generating 28 PP's/hr which is a vast improvement from the 1 PP/hr I started with 5 nights ago. Your culture will not start to build up until you get the first cybernet. I would recommend buying a cybernet when you have 3-4 factories and farms. There are lots of ways to build up. Once you factor in different races, you will find that there is no perfect way to build up a planet (but almost everyone agrees that buying factories first and then farms is a great way to get going quickly).
Now you can see why it is recommended to sign in several times a day (even though there is very little that you can do early in the game, e.g. just buy that factory and log off). Over time as you gain interest, you will explore the website as there is a lot of information which becomes clearer after you have been playing the game for a while.
Feel free to message me within the game if you don't understand something (although questions posted in this forum from previous betas were one of the ways that I learned the most early on). If you don't understand something, there is a good chance that another newbie player doesn't understand it either.
sammystingray
Active Member
Beth, just try to stay on top of things....as soon as you have 5 PPs, spend them so you now get 2 per hour etc. You can see the guys in my system have fallen behind me within days, and I do believe I will try to own all 12 planets in this system instead of working with them. Where they failed was that they joined and then didn't log in 5 hours later to buy a factory ASAP. Then they should have logged in 2.5 hours later to buy a farm etc. By the time the two actually playing logged back in for the first time after joining, I was already at 6 PPs per hour and they were at 1 still. The first few days are slow, but if you look at my pic I posted, you can see what a difference it makes to not lose even an hour when you can upgrade, and now these guys are logging in, but they have fallen too far behind me already. I do NOT believe they will be able to compete when I come to take their planets and take them out of the game. Hopefully the guy I have sieged took the lab bonus so I get 12 labs when I take the planet. So you see the first few slow days can define early victory in your main system.
belothsurf
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What is your purpose.................????
sammystingray
Active Member
Originally posted by belothsurf
What is your purpose.................????
Do you mean what is the point of the game? As in how do you win, or what is your goal?
elfdoctors
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Points are achieved by gaining population levels, increasing player levels (through experience in battle), or gaining science levels above 20 (which doesn't happen until late in the game. The game ends when a player has 500 points or an alliance has 470 points for a few days.
Different people have different purposes. Some people like to fight; some people like to gain points, some people like the diplomacy, some people are aiding others, some people just want to stay alive, some people want to see their name in the daily rankings that update every 5pm CDT.
Different people have different purposes. Some people like to fight; some people like to gain points, some people like the diplomacy, some people are aiding others, some people just want to stay alive, some people want to see their name in the daily rankings that update every 5pm CDT.
elfdoctors
Active Member
Originally posted by Beth
Gosh, I don't even know what I'm doing yet. I guess I can expect to be taken over as soon as my planet looks a bit tempting. There are only 3 others in this area. New like me. I don't know how to contact them yet.
Every system starts out with 4 players and 8 free planets.
To contact someone - click on the map, click on the player's name: then you can see a tab at the bottom of their profile where you can send them a message. Don't NAP everyone immediately until after you can see who are the better players.
Everyone makes some silly mistakes early in the game. The first time I started I thought that I was supposed to accumulate production points so I didn't spend them. This really slowed my development. I remember I was enamored by the science screen which is not the important one early in the game (you should be watching your planets screen and the map (by late in the game there will probably be dozens of systems on the viewscreen as your biology level goes up). Just set that one at social and forget it until it gets somewhere between level 6 and 10.
belothsurf
Member
Don't forget I'm "Spot", at alaraph 7 -21/7, and I'm just Raising Arizona, a planet of nice stupid people.......
But...I'm feeling the need to spread the stupidity...............
But...I'm feeling the need to spread the stupidity...............
belothsurf
Member
Originally posted by sammystingray
Do you mean what is the point of the game? As in how do you win, or what is your goal?
Yeah, what is the purpose of the game, ultimately? Take over?
belothsurf
Member
I just sent a message to one of my neighbors, but I tried to disguise myself, as an American, with an Australian accent, from Ireland, wiith an Italian flair.....my neighbor is French......is this ok???
belothsurf
Member
I just got my answer, from my neighbor........and as I expected, it was in French...............my disguise worked ............unfortunately for him....I took German in High School.....I responded with the only French I know, which was "parley voo Englaaa..."??? He needs to go dooownnnn!!!!!
............unfortunately for him....I took German in High School.....I responded with the only French I know, which was "parley voo Englaaa..."??? He needs to go dooownnnn!!!!!