I started it and finished it yesterday after several hours. Got all the badges to prove. ;-) I like the turn based nature of it and even at the end the fighting was still interesting, with enemies stunning me and despite the powerful items I was wearing it was still a lot of effort to kill some of them even if the risk of being killed by them went down to almost zero. When I was told to kill the 4 brigands at the bridge I went right after them and ended up trying to kill some archers by the other bridge far away. It was how I got killed about three times given I was much weaker. Getting my revenge later was cool. ;-) At times I was quite confused by how Mercenaries and Merchants were similar. ;-)
Alblaka, thanks! I have reached it. Admiral plus Hydra Destroyer. I am not sure about using it though, 'cause it comes with fewer regular slots like you said, kinda a super upgrade of the Nymph, losing the second proximity slot tho'. It looks fun to use it and switch weapons from my trusted thunder bolt torpedoes tho'.
crash2243, I now have exactly 2575 kills and counting. ;-) I want to know what kind of promotion comes next after the 1600 kill-ish Commodore one. I am guessing that I am going to find it out perhaps at most 3200 kills. I also want to know what kind of ship is going to become available with that. I fare well in somewhat repetitive games I guess. ;-)
I went fairly consistently to threat 1 sectors when I bought hyperspace recharger engine for the Warship I had. I bought the most expensive one. But then I sold it all to give the Battleship a try just to sell it too and buy another Warship with the engine I like, the one that gives 1.6x more top speed. Right now I have over 2100 kills.
Xiad, Yes I have. Threat 1 sectors are quite fun but too dangerous with spawning enemy ships all the time. When an enemy ship hits you with some kind of EMP missile sending your ship defenseless for several seconds it can nearly kill you if the enemy or enemies take the chance to mount on you. ;-) What ended up killing me once in a threat 1 sector was another Vortex Bomb though.
Commodore. Sorry. Been promoted to Commodore. Dogfighting sounds like fun. There's an Alien ship called Defender that is quite strong at chasing me around. I was playing with it once and it killed my Warship. The other ways my Warship died had mainly happened due to Vortex Bomb, which I've been making use of every now and then.
I've just been promoted to Commander with over 1600 kills. It enabled the "Medusa Battleship". I would not be able to venture with this Battelship into enemy ambushes the way I can with the Warship because the Warship comes with two utility slots and the Battleship comes with none and it basically screws over the fighting strategies I've come up with for the Warship.
And I also later learned to use the utility "LASS Stealth System" to either escape trouble or ambush the enemy. Try to kill 10 or so enemies any time you leave your base sector. I would not fight only in my base sector because sometimes you lose kills to friend firing.
I tried a couple of ships but I think the best ones are "Chariot Fast Attack", "Minotaur Assault" and now "Warship". I later found out that suffering when trying to use the "Laser Beam" was not worth it so I would load as many "Thunder Bolt Torpedoes" as possible. Lately I found the mines which are "Thunder Bolt" or so to be worth it as well so make use of them to kill enemies just behind you.
Here are the steps. I made of Sector 10-4 my base because it is quite close to the enemy line and I fought most of the time in the sectors just above it to the left so when I wanted some serious kills I would go to the Sectors ranging from 9-1 to 9-4 which are threat 0.55 or so. I would avoid ambushes due to slow ship.
I just got the 801 kills badge and also got promoted to Captain and bought the Warship made available and loaded it with all sorts of massive weapons. Watch out aliens! ;-)
Nova Starfury. Ouch. Twice! My ship was just killed by a "blackhole" for the first time. Fun! I had just completed an assassination mission and was on the way back without even the autopilot and drove right into it. Damn. That said, sure I'll refrain from trying to take the discussion over. ;-)
So I reached the end of it. I managed to buy the 8000 gold armor and I used it in the last quests "retrieve the agreement" and "kill the dragon". My hero reached level 14 which gave me a lot of stats to play with. The monsters could not take more than 1 of my life per hit in the end, generally.
I do not know how to use mines yet. I have not had any success when trying to employ them. I have tried that 4000 money one and I think I ended up killing a friendly ship once with it. ;-)
I have over 100 kills already. To get to 800 is going to take a while. ;-) Right now I am on the laptop which is too sucky so I am holding to play more seriously when I get to the desktop later on.
The combo I use is to fire the torpedo when I get to 1500 range. And approaching the target slowly I manage to switch fast to the laser beam and if it all goes well I can cause a lot of damage that way. With one of the fastest ships I also get to prefer the approaching distance pretty well in every try.
Now I have 57000 money and do not have what to spend it on yet. I already have my ship that I like with the engine of 38000 to make it 1.6x faster in top speed. My ship is that one that gives 20 top speed by default so it is extremely fast and has 4 guns. I use torpedoes of bolt (3) and a laser beam.
I am still a newbie in this game, so I was just surprised at killing an "enemy gatherer" getting over 2000 of bounty and it dropped and I picked an extra bonus of over 10000 bounty. Pretty cool.
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