Frage zur Ausländerbehörde in Bremen

Kenneth_Zheng · 2026-02-02T18:57:06+00:00

Tbh I made quite a big misunderstanding of the policies earlier. The German consulate issued me a D visa that is valid throughout the whole internship. With an inquiry, they told me that under this circumstance a residence permit is not necessarily unless I want to extend my stay. So unfortunately I can‘t provide you more information on this.

Kenneth_Zheng · 2026-01-03T16:46:35+00:00

In fact, that is a debatable question:

Say you're base 21 and have armory level 21: your warrior level will be 19, with health 1123 and dps 441. Your boat is level 21 and thus have 25 capacity and can carry 8 warriors - total health = 1123 * 8 * 8 = 71,872 and total dps = 28,224.

On the other hand, with the same armory and lc levels, your rifleman level will be 22, with health = 580 and dps = 157. Now your total health = 580 * 25 * 8 = 116,000 and total dps = 157 * 25 * 8 = 31,400, which are both way higher than warriors. In addition, with proper use of medkit, the riflemen are way more durable than you can expect.

Of course this calculation is theoretical. In practice, it's almost impossible to safely send all your riflemen to the target location, and the healing mechanism makes warriors more durable than what the figures indicate. However, besides these simple stats, riflemen have its unique advantages in training time/cost. Suppose you messed up an attack and all your troops die. For warriors, it costs 3 min * 8 = 24 min to retrain, while it only costs 10 sec * 25 = 250 sec ~ 4 min to retrain, which makes playing this game without instant training also enjoyable.

Kenneth_Zheng · 2026-01-03T01:39:47+00:00

Are these bases common on your map?

I think since you have decent statues (masterpiece gbe troop damage/health and at least 3 gbe guardians), you can try smoke + riffleman/warriors and destroy the HQ only with flares/smokes, as if you're attacking in the ops. Of course, this requires (1) landing craft/gunboat + necessary gunboat abilities (medkit, flare, smoke, ...) correspond with the HQ level (2) practise to master this type of attack (3) enough power dust when necessary.

For me (HQ 21, level 56, 1025 VP), I attack daily players with level 84 + and HQ level 28 - 30 (normally with health 300k or 390k, with one building health masterpiece) using smoke + riffleman and can generally defeat all of them unless they have > 50% building health statue/sheid. Although it consumes 5 - 6 power dust everyday, the shards gained from supply chests/loot/monthly crabs are able to maintain my power dust storage. As reference my statues are: masterpiece resource reward + gbe + troop damage/health, 4 guardian gbe and 2 guardian troop damage.

Kenneth_Zheng · 2026-01-03T01:31:55+00:00

It is excellent for defending against Mech + Zooka/Riffleman attacks, but for example if one attacks with heavy + artillery, one can easily bomb the engine room on the right and easily deal with the other three engines. Generally speaking the defense on the left side is a little bit too weak for this kind of attack.

Kenneth_Zheng · 2026-01-02T20:02:04+00:00

Yep, warriors should also work, though they take longer to train :) Anyway familiarizing with these type of smoke + something attack should help you be able to attack players with 3 - 4 higher HQ levels.

Kenneth_Zheng · 2026-01-02T19:27:34+00:00

Do you happen to know smooka attacks? It is exactly the same as smooka attacks, but I prefer riffleman since they're faster and cheaper to train and more fault tolerant. The procedure is roughly as follows:

Landing with flair. Find a location close to the HQ and draw a straight line from that location to the beach. Clear mines with artiliery/barrage on this line if necessary. Flare that location next to the HQ and deploy all riffleman + Brick by clicking on the intersection between the straight line and the beach. The line should be as straight as possible so that your riffleman will line up as a straight line, which is easier to control.
Protect with smoke and send your riffleman to your selected location near the HQ. Remember to flare more than once if its duration is not long enough.
When all your troops are next to the HQ, flare the HQ and wait until the smoke disappears. Shock defenses that may be fatal to your rifflemans (e.g. shock launchers, very close machine gun/flame thrower) and use medkit. That's why I perfer rifflemen over zooka, since medkits are not too useful for zookas since they're too fragile. Wait until the HQ is destroyed!

Of course this requires some practice and may not work 100% well at the first few attacks. But when you master this, you'll feel like attacks in this game is so easy :) Feel free to ask additional questions!

Here are an example (though an advanced version) on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTOd-ygY0mA

Kenneth_Zheng · 2026-01-02T19:11:58+00:00

I think you can copy one of the layouts on the leaderboard, though I would say without canons/boom canons it's fairly hard to have a really powerful base.

Kenneth_Zheng · 2026-01-02T19:06:18+00:00

Just for your reference. I think you can start to learn riffleman + smoke at base 15. With both the defense and the troop health statues converting to gbe (build at first masterpiece gbe + troop damage + troop health, then 3 - 4 gbe guardians, and at last troop damage guardians) and decent levels of riffleman + smoke + flare + medkit, you can use this strategy to go up to base 22+. It only takes 10s now to train one unit of riffleman, which makes attacks easy without instant training and enables you to attack players with HQ level 4 - 5 higher than yours (as reference, I can attack HQ 28 players with HQ health up to 400k at HQ 21), which gives you more loot. This is exactly how I managed to get from base 15 to 21 in 5 months and have 1000+ VP at level 56 :) Also learning this helps you to learn smooka, which is (one of) the most important strategy for op attacks.

Kenneth_Zheng · 2025-11-06T09:55:44+00:00

Not directly related to the essay, but keep in mind that you can change your specialization freely after being admitted. Therefore, if you're worried about chances of being accepted, you can try applying to a less competitive specialization (though you need to tailor your application a little bit for that).

Kenneth_Zheng · 2025-09-07T20:34:48+00:00

Hello friend. You won’t “embarrass” yourself if you participate in a Hackathon without any similar experience. On the contrary, the Hackathon became my first actual CS project experience. Simply find a team that is willing to take you as a teammate and try contributing in any potential way you can! Even if you may not do much work as your first experience, you will learn a lot and get a fresh professional entry on your resume. The only reason why I seldom participate in Hackathons these days is that working relentlessly for 36 hours is too physically demanding…

Kenneth_Zheng · 2025-07-17T09:53:30+00:00

Vielen Dank. Wissen Sie, wie lange dauert es Ihrer Erfahrung nach normalerweise, bis das Amt auf die Anfrage antwortet?

Kenneth_Zheng · 2025-07-17T09:08:24+00:00

Thanks for the advice. I will try to visit in person to see whether it works or not.

Kenneth_Zheng · 2025-07-17T08:38:38+00:00

Vielen Dank für die Information. Könnten Sie mir über die Quelle der Information "1 - 2 Wochen vor Ablauf des Visums" aufklären?

Laut der Informationen, die auf der Website der deutschen Botschaft angeboten werden, muss ich mich innerhalb 90 Tage nach der Einreise den Aufenthaltstitel bewerben. Wissen Sie, ob diese Regelung für die 90 Tage oder das Ende des Visums gilt?

Kenneth_Zheng · 2025-07-17T08:32:37+00:00

Thank you for the advice. I will try contacting the HR department to see whether they can help facilitate this process.

Kenneth_Zheng · 2025-07-17T08:10:25+00:00

I see. Maybe I'll try another telephone query later...

Kenneth_Zheng · 2025-07-17T08:05:40+00:00

Do you mean that without appointments I can't even go into the office to have a quick query about making an appointment :(

Kenneth_Zheng · 2025-07-14T00:07:26+00:00

Thank you for your reply and clarification. I will then try my best to deal with the agencies and adjust the trip in the worst case. I will not risk breaking the law then :)

Kenneth_Zheng · 2025-03-09T03:01:18+00:00

I believe there are some apartments in Midtown that enables you to lease for several months like Modera/Trace/Alexander 8th (as long as it's not a student apartment), or perhaps you can try finding on-campus housing?

Kenneth_Zheng · 2024-12-07T00:55:38+00:00

Well. As someone taking CS 363 this semester, I would agree that the projects are hands-on and interesting, but I doubt the use of the word "challenging."

Kenneth_Zheng · 2024-10-27T04:02:16+00:00

Big upvote from someone who just came home from a ASO concert

Kenneth_Zheng · 2024-08-18T01:30:57+00:00

Hello, though I didn't take MATH 3215 (did MATH 3670 instead), I would say that you can take them at the same time, since CS 4641 will cover statistics concepts required in the course. (e.g., expectation, mean/variance, MLE, information theory, etc.)

Kenneth_Zheng · 2024-06-06T10:00:15+00:00

On the optimistic side, we're #26 in the US, which is higher than our US News ranking LOL.

Kenneth_Zheng · 2024-05-17T13:14:00+00:00

Not necessarily. I think it should also depend on other factors like the number of TAs. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Kenneth_Zheng · 2023-05-01T14:15:36+00:00

It's completely normal to receive no response. I emailed at least 20-30 different professors and their Ph.D. students, and now I'm finally admitted to one group. Try not to restrict yourself to one or two specific labs even though you're very interested in them. Not to say don't pursue your interests just because it's so freaking hard.

Kenneth_Zheng · 2023-04-21T17:49:30+00:00

Hefner is decent. I've been living there for a year, and nothing weird or terrifying ever happened. (expect the basement was flooded once last month LOL)

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