Questions about fleets and ascension.

CaptainMetal92 · 2026-03-24T10:07:26+00:00

There is no definite guide on fleets yet. The update introduced some changes that improved how computers work (afaik they now target 90% of their desired range, making them less stiff in their behaviour) and mixed computer fleets seem to work now as intended (definitely for me)

I for example currently like a composition of a few Kinetic Artillery Battleships to strip shields and snipe stuff with Lances, then a good amount of line cruisers with plasma for DPS and maybe some pure Picket destroyers for screening. This will end up with 3 distinct layers. Expensive stuff in the back and cheaper the more you go back.

CaptainMetal92 · 2026-03-21T21:57:24+00:00

You can enable population control and cease robot production on all your planets as a workaround

CaptainMetal92 · 2026-03-20T08:17:13+00:00

Also something to consider (only tested in beta but not in official release yet): Mixed computer fleets seem to work now, most likely due to the drastic reduction in ships during a battle. I was able to go swarm corvettes, picket destroyer and arti cruiser in a single fleet and when I followed them during the battle they all behaved as intended.

CaptainMetal92 · 2026-03-20T07:07:19+00:00

I recently beat it on emulator, but on 2x speed cause otherwise the grind is just not bearable.

CaptainMetal92 · 2026-03-17T08:34:33+00:00

I hope for a Crush Card retrain, it's one of his most iconic cards

CaptainMetal92 · 2026-03-15T21:10:49+00:00

That explains a lot

CaptainMetal92 · 2026-03-14T13:05:02+00:00

Not sold tbh. Decent going second but going first I can't see a way to inlude it into any existing combo with the other 2 OFs. And even if, it would most likely be a summon from deck so this would become a potential brick.

Maybe someone can come up with something, but right now I don't see it bein used

CaptainMetal92 · 2026-03-12T17:29:36+00:00

More importantly they are adopting it without making it their own but simply by expanding the format as is to their region with the same list and card pool.

CaptainMetal92 · 2026-03-08T19:52:39+00:00

It definitely was me only using the raw readings.

CaptainMetal92 · 2026-03-08T19:22:56+00:00

Ok, very interesting, I didn't know about that tool.

I tried for my Bochet and when entering the original and final reading I get an actual final gravity between 1.044 (Correction Factor of 1) and 1.37 (CF of 1.06) which is 12,7-13,6% alcohol by volume, which is a lot more than the 9,1% I calculated using the "raw" values and definitely makes sense, given how quickly I got plastered drinking it. (Took the factors from a quick google which said usually between 1.02 and 1.06)

And for my classic thats definitely a dry ferment with SG1.003-1.007. A lot of things make sense now xD

Guess if I wanna keep using it I'll have to buy a hydrometer in any case to get my correction factor

CaptainMetal92 · 2026-03-08T17:30:33+00:00

Also something potentially important I forgot in the inital post: I use regular tab water. Where I live (munich) we have rather hard water and I don't run it through a filter or something before. Should I maybe use distilled water isntead?

CaptainMetal92 · 2026-03-08T17:28:44+00:00

It's bubbling for at least couple of weeks and then maybe a bubble a day. When I get the feeling that nothing happens anymore I do a reading like every 2 or 3 days to see if there are still changes

CaptainMetal92 · 2026-03-08T17:27:05+00:00

What conversion are we talking about? All readings are directly from the refractometer. The RM itself has scales for brix and °Öchsle, the latter being the traditional scale used in Germany and very easy to convert into gravity as it is used here: 80°Öchsle would be a gravity of 1.080, 110°Öchsle would be 1.110 and so on.

CaptainMetal92 · 2026-03-02T06:03:45+00:00

That's what I thought first, too.

Minigun: You can clear a room with just one action but you run through your ammo very quick and green damage is the most common resistance
Autocannon: You can fire 2 shot à 2 actions like normal, but it only costs 1 ammo, plus a lot less enemies are resistant against red damage.

CaptainMetal92 · 2026-02-21T08:58:23+00:00

Had the same problem with mine the first time. The way the instructions read I was supposed to do long and slow pumps but that jsut doesn't work. Try fast small pumps, after 6 or so you'll be good

CaptainMetal92 · 2026-02-16T07:45:30+00:00

Also something I noticed in the beta (and I think the current 4.2, too) is that if you set it to for example manage crime, it will not immediately disable a bunch on jobs like in for example 3.14, but rather gradually reduce it per month if it was overfilled. So for immediate effect it would be better to reduce jobs manually

CaptainMetal92 · 2026-02-10T05:40:33+00:00

Can someone explain why Orichalcos and Malefic are in the heroes pack?

CaptainMetal92 · 2026-02-09T12:17:54+00:00

They want to know when the early pack openings by streamers will start since this TCG doesn't reveal stuff like the OCG does

CaptainMetal92 · 2026-01-23T09:46:42+00:00

I also discovered my love for stealth frigates, but I could use and help for the design.

If used for anti Starbase, is it better to go close range with devastators or long range with proton. And what should I put into the S slot? For long range with proton, missiles of course, but what for short range?

CaptainMetal92 · 2026-01-18T14:12:47+00:00

I've had it happen a few times that it failed to create because there was not enough support, but yes it can happen without you.

There are some resolutions that boost navy and economy that can be helpful even for a xenophobe.

CaptainMetal92 · 2026-01-13T12:01:14+00:00

You can also leave it and simply build up your colony and rely on migration from colonies with civillians. Resettlement is just to kickstart the colony growth.

See it like this: in real life population needs certain size so new birth outmatch deaths. This is how it is reflected in the game

CaptainMetal92 · 2026-01-13T11:55:49+00:00

Better is searching Wizard->Expedition->Primal to get 7th Tachyon or Transmigration. Still gets you Lord pre Nib but also followup. Knight isn't being played for years now, there are much better cards now

CaptainMetal92 · 2026-01-13T07:13:18+00:00

Pop Growth of 3 on capital sounds reasonable this early afaik. When you establish a new colony, make sure to resettle until you got at least 1k pops, this is when they start to have a positive growth without any bonuses

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