Someone said earlier to keep the base tight, that is wrong. The more spread out you are the easier it is to deal with the ships since they wont overload 1 small area of the base. End game..6-8 solars, 2-4 miners per asteroid, 4-6 storage, 4-6 repair, 60-80 lasers, 2-3 thels, 2-3 missles. Hope this helps. recycle often and play in SLOW.
A few missle launchers to 1k upgrade will help as well. PLAY IN SLOW MODE otherwise you will be overrun before you can react. Recycle everything that you cannot defend then build it back. Repair stations help alot as the little ships get attacked and take heat off your lasers and other stuff. I had like 5 or 6 near the end.
For the last mission: You must mine the entire field as fast as possible. By the 10-12 minute mark you should be over the entire thing. Only upgrade solars\storage at first. Build tons of regular lasers(no pulsars, waste) from whatever side you are being attacked.
When motherships come build a THEL to 800 upgrade to deal with them.
meh still stuck on 19. nothing i do seems enough to damage the last wave. no matter how many points i put into the orbs or how much they get upgraded it always fails. :\
heh now the game gets stuck at 100% load and never starts...
did you balance it yet ampy..i still see people stuck on 19 like myself...short of somehow bugging the creeps off the map i dont think it's beatable..
Ok im convinced level 19 is impossible..I have tried just about every type of combination and NOTHING works on the last wave. I have overloaded every orb skill, attack skill etc. And nothing damages the last wave fast enough to keep them from over running you.. 1\5 until he patches it.
Stage 19, last wave is wayyyyyyyy unbalanced. either cut down the number of mobs or drastically reduce armor. i cannot beat them no matter what i do. I have upgraded pretty balanced across the skills and i just dont do enough damage on that wave to prevent being overrun by the last armored creeps.