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Post by tenbsmith on Feb 16, 2015 13:26:01 GMT -5
Palaces "Defend 7 Upgrade Levels". What happens when you have more upgrades than defense? Will defense totally fail?
For example, Cadar Prime currently has 11 Upgrades, a Palace, and "Defense 7/13". In this case would only 7 of the 11 upgrades be protected?
(I'm also curious why the denominator of the "Defense" stat is 13 when the system only has 11 Upgrades.)
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Post by Brutus Aurelius on Feb 16, 2015 17:17:38 GMT -5
Defense needs to be equal to or higher than the total upgrades to be at its most effective. If I recal correctly, a fully defended system is about 80% likely to repel Xeno attacks. Less than the upgrade total means that you are less likely to defend the system.
Starports also count as installations that need to be protected, as do orbitals.
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Post by hissrad on Feb 17, 2015 23:17:36 GMT -5
Speaking of system defense, does having more defense upgrades then are required do anything?
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Post by bookworm21 on Feb 18, 2015 5:42:44 GMT -5
Speaking of system defense, does having more defense upgrades then are required do anything? Not in my (limited) experience no, but I guess it saves you from having to beef them up later! |
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Post by khamya9 on Feb 18, 2015 17:13:44 GMT -5
Also,don't forget the most important part of system defense: destroy world killer ships on sight. These are nearly always your #1 priority
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Post by Cory Trese on Mar 4, 2015 13:43:15 GMT -5
Speaking of system defense, does having more defense upgrades then are required do anything? Yes it does. Every 50% of "Overdefense" provides a small advantage. It isn't necessarily worth it, but if you are building out we give you an advantage. So you are at 10/10 defense you get +1 at 15/10 and +2 at 20/10. |
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Post by koles on Mar 5, 2015 13:00:34 GMT -5
funny thing in defences is that they give you +1espionage - and for me these are the best arguments to build them on every planets in early-medium stage of game, especially if we play syndicates
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Post by Brutus Aurelius on Mar 5, 2015 14:58:48 GMT -5
Conversely, they are a big drain on your econ at that point. I usually fortify border worlds only.
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Post by koles on Mar 5, 2015 15:36:01 GMT -5
Conversely, they are a big drain on your econ at that point. I usually fortify border worlds only. not at all at that stage of game orbital defence 1 has 30$ maintain cost - within you get +1pop +1esp + 1trade since 1pop cost 10 anyway as any 1hab - in reality its +1esp +1trade for 20$ or +1esp +2trade for 30$ if you get orbital defence 2 so from what i think on crazy difficult you need at least trade treaty to get to 0 with $, but with high espionages its not as big problem as playing old clans with javat main economy pusher bigger number of espionages allows you to faster get rid of bans/embargos/wars and then go for aliance with Cadar's ability, so it allows you get more creds from thats TPs, and also get 10% discount in maintain cost from aliance much much faster i must also say that i dont play mixed factions - and that work great for syndicates because that really boost Rychard's bonus |
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Post by hissrad on Mar 5, 2015 18:15:20 GMT -5
I like to fortify somea few exposed planets to encourage the xenos to them. This helps keep the aliens away from my core worlds and acts as a staging point for invading xenos systems.
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