Neptune's Pride, not to be confused with his bounty or harvest

Barcardi

Do i need to worry about this whole "associate your gmail account with this game?"

IE will i get a bunch of junk mail after i sign up for this?

Henroid

I haven't had any problems with it. No spam or anything from it. I think it's more in association with the company and less the game specifically.

... baboo

Barcardi

Signed up... god help me, but now I study how to not fail right away.

Baidol

Research speed first
Set waypoints so your ships capture stars overnight while you sleep the first few days
Don't build stuff on low quality planets
Remember that more ships does not equate to more firepower.

Henroid

Since Idle Thumbs (dead podcast, but maybe they'll come back maybe please god) got brought up, let me link the relevant episodes the game gets discussed (with timestamps since these episodes are long).

Episode 5 - http://www.idlethumbs.net/download/thumbspodcast005 - 44:50ish in
Episode 6 - http://www.idlethumbs.net/download/thumbspodcast006 - 38:56ish in
Episode 8 - http://www.idlethumbs.net/download/thumbspodcast008 - 53:41ish in

AceFantastic

Woops, looks like some guy just sent his fleet out to meet my smaller fleet on an unclaimed star. Gonna have to let him have it I guess.

Baidol

Remember that the defender gets a weapon boost and first strike.

Fandeathis

How are the other two games from Iron Helmet, Blight of the Immortals and Jupiter's Folly? They seem similar, but with their own very unique settings. I'm tempted to try them, but I don't know if I want to be playing three of these games at once.

AceFantastic

He's going to hit the star with 10 ships and has 3 weapon skill, I'll have 4 ships with 2 weapon skill. I'll leave a ship on the plant just to wittle him down a bit of course, but I aint gonna win no matter what.

sligmasta

definitely gonna give this a shot. Hopefully get some experience before a forum game gets set up.

sligmasta

So about how long does it usually take for a free starter game to fill up? I know this is a slow paced game but I'm already antsy to do all the things.

Baidol

I think the one I joined took a day to get eight players.

Edit: Also, I can see seven of this guy's nine planets, but I still can't see his last fleet and its making me antsy.

Hopefully he's blowing everything by attacking his other neighbor like he tried to do with me.

Henroid

Baidol wrote:

I think the one I joined took a day to get eight players.

Edit: Also, I can see seven of this guy's nine planets, but I still can't see his last fleet and its making me antsy.

Hopefully he's blowing everything by attacking his other neighbor like he tried to do with me.

STRIKE NOW! And then get flanked.

Isn't the brutality of this game coming through, despite the simple mechanics?

Baidol

If by "brutality" you mean "Holy shit everyone has level four weapons and I can't attack any systems without a fleet of 30+ ships for every planet" then yes.

Fandeathis

I like this game a lot. After people finish their first trial games, we should get a legit SE game going.

Henroid

I'll be into it. The important questions are, do we play with a fixed galaxy or a random galaxy, and do we allow official alliances or no?

Virgil_Leads_You

I've been using http://josteinb.com/npCalc/ to do my math.

Fandeathis

Henroid wrote:

I'll be into it. The important questions are, do we play with a fixed galaxy or a random galaxy, and do we allow official alliances or no?

I would say fixed for the first game, but I would also be alright with random. I don't have any issues with official alliances, but it seems more fun to be able to back-stab at will.

Virgil_Leads_You wrote:

I've been using http://josteinb.com/npCalc/ to do my math.

Same here. I've been using the iPhone app as well.

Fandeathis

Just looked at creating premium games for the first time. The options are incredible for a custom game. Of the pre-set options Baxter Galaxy is amazing.

Fandeathis

@Henroid So does it cost 50 credits (aka $5) to make a private game that your friends can join for free with a password? Because it seems as though if you create a game with 20 credits, your friends each have to pony up 10 credits to join. Am I understanding this correctly?

Henroid

You are. The games I've made have been the 50 credit ones though, I wouldn't ask anyone to pay money on the game like that.

Fandeathis

Yeah, no way I'm making my friends pay money to play a game with me. I will however gladly pay $5 to entertain my friends with a game that lasts months. I just have to see who is down to play at the pen & paper and board game nights that I host at my house. I bet I can get 12 people on board haha.

Barcardi

So my first game started... I immedietly upgraded/am upgrading science for speed.

Also i am building better ships at 25$ a pop or something? I am not sure of the interface, do i just select them or do i have to confirm my actions or something, nothing really happened?

AceFantastic

The build ship for 25 dollars is a carrier. You build/buy the carrier to carry your ships around the galaxy. The ships are made from your industrial factories. You don't do anything for those, just wait for them to be made automatically.

Henroid

Ships are your attack / defense strength. Carriers are how you move ships. You don't want to go hog-wild with carriers at the start.

Baidol

Looks like I am on my way to eliminating a player from my game. How easy this will be depends on if another player logs in within the next 4 hours and agrees to send me some weapon tech.

Fandeathis

Henroid wrote:

Ships are your attack / defense strength. Carriers are how you move ships. You don't want to go hog-wild with carriers at the start.

Building a lot of carriers at the start did allow me to expand pretty fast though. What do you suggest spending that money on instead?

Druhim

If you build a lot of carriers at the start, that just means you have a lot of weak fleets. Yeah, you can capture more planets quickly at the start but you won't be able to hold shit.

sligmasta

So my first game seems to have 5/8 people not playing, and the other 2 who are are across the map. This could turn out very well for me.

Baidol

Don't get too confident. Your economy and industry will outclass the inactive players, but they will end up with very large fleets as they continue to be built and not die.

I am finding it incredibly difficult to strangle a player to death when I have three other borders to protect.

Virgil_Leads_You

What I tend to do when I don't have viable stars to invest in- is create a new fleet of 1.
It would just go scout out a 40; ultimately saving me money in the long run.
It doesn't really diminish your current fleet defenses and you can put industry on valuable unconquered systems much faster.

AceFantastic

Oh no, a fleet of 39 ships just turned up in my scanning range. If he's waypointed his fleet to hit a specific star, then he should arrive half an hour before my fleet of 16 ships get there. Dang, that could hurt.

Baidol

Your ships will all die.

Welcome to the game!

AceFantastic

I sure hope he didn't waypoint his fleet! Or at least anywhere but that one star.

I also hope he doesn't read this thread.

sligmasta

So when do i get my money for the day?

Druhim

It tells you in your overview.

Fandeathis

It seems as though the game I am in is going to come down to four really big superpowers fighting it out. I am only the third strongest of said superpowers. This isn't going to end well.

Mortal Sky

So the game I started up, I entirely missed the first five days, so I started out with two stars. I'm slowly regaining a foothold on the sector I started in, which is gonna be tough, but I think with some ruthless guerrilla warfare (which will unfortunately piss off every single player in that area, seeing as its kinda on a boundary between about four people) I can at least get somewhere

Baidol

Good luck.

I bottled up a player to eight planets and he's managed to survive up until now, but I am slowly suffocating him.

Fandeathis

We've whittled 4 of the 8 players down to just 4 to 6 planets each. They will fall soon, and the superpowers will go at it in what should be a spectacular war.