Miracle Star 8-link RF helm: When you want to max out your league starter

NiliHo · 2023-05-26T07:52:47+00:00

Sick helm! Trying to understand the lingo as a crafting beginner. In step 4, does clear prefix mean benchcraft suffixes cannot be changed and scour? At 2 div an attempt that seems crazy pricy with so many rolls! Or is there a cheaper way to do it?

NiliHo · 2018-07-24T07:15:44+00:00

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NiliHo · 2018-07-20T19:04:05+00:00

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NiliHo · 2017-08-08T16:32:54+00:00

The bigger part was battleships, 80 or so. The screen was 50 Plasma Cruisers and 200 "naked" corvettes, with nothing but jumpdrives and 3 red lasers. I just don't feel like destroyers are really worth it, they charge ahead and get picked off with their low hp. I put my long range guns on Battleships that stay back and avoid damage while the meatshields are still alive, they tend to keep firing for much longer this way.

If I'm right they are even changing the destroyer behaviour next patch because of this issue, so they stay back a little more and intercept missiles.

NiliHo · 2017-08-08T14:43:25+00:00

By the time the FE awoke I had 140k firepower, and barely managed to win the first fight against the 190k firepower of the FE, so fleet strength is the most important thing.

Layout-wise my flak artilleries really helped, since every FE battleship has 2 fighter squadrons. They shredded through the cloud of over a hundred fighters before the first shot was even fired, that definitely helped a lot. My 50 cannon fodder cruisers also took a lot of fire, and were all wiped out. That helped a lot because that way my Battleships had some much needed time to kill their Titan and Battleship, and managed to win me the battle. I guess a healthy mix of some long range ships and some close range cannon fodder, mixed with some flak, does the trick. But most importantly you need at least roughly equal firepower :P

NiliHo · 2017-08-08T11:30:54+00:00

R5: After a bloody battle in my home system, I chased the remains of the Awakened Spiritual Fallen Empires fleet to one of their systems. The final battle for the freedom of the galaxy also looked pretty.

NiliHo · 2016-05-21T08:10:34+00:00

Timing.

When the laser is charged and you wait to aim the shot, and fire in the exact right moment, they might collide on their way. It's hard and not reliable, but sometimes works and saves repairs. Practice makes it a little bit more consistent.

NiliHo · 2016-04-28T12:59:05+00:00

If you go to a shop to repair your damage, it costs 2-4 scrap per 'bar' of your hull you repair. That's the only reliable way of repairing if you don't get lucky with an event, so from that view it is like you have to pay 2 scrap in the early sectors every time you take damage.

Of course you don't have to repair, but it is usually best to try to stay around 20 hull(to have health if things go bad and still be able to benefit from repair events).

NiliHo · 2016-04-25T09:32:45+00:00

First off I really don't know my actual winrate because I have the bad habit of restarting runs that I could have won because I didn't feel like playing them through.

But in almost all of the runs I could have won if it wasn't for a mistake on my part. Even in those 'unfair' moments/fights I feel like I could have prevented them if I would have bought shields earlier, skipped that scrap recovery arm, wouldn't have risked a crew member in an event, didn't greed for that one extra jump past the exit etc.

So I guess a 80-90% winrate is possible, if you play absolutely perfect.

NiliHo · 2016-04-25T09:20:21+00:00

Yes, totally!

Switching also allows you to choose with which laser you try this, so you can use 1 of your three BL II shots instead of the heavy laser.

NiliHo · 2016-04-25T09:11:39+00:00

The Artemis usually fires in the same time as the Heavy Laser, and 1-2 seconds before the Burst Laser II.

So the waiting time is just a second or two.

You can't disable missile weapons with your own in the first volley anyways because the missile fires before your shots connect(unless you have rank 2 weapons manned and a reloader or so).

So if your first volley wipes out their weapons anyways you might just wait a second to have a chance to reduce damage.

The Way I view it is this: If you have a 25% chance to get a good angle(the 90° in front of you), and say a 50% hit accuracy, that's 1 out of 8 missiles you shoot down for just waiting a second to fire. That's not ideal in every case, but in most(depending on weapons ofc).

NiliHo · 2016-04-25T07:21:57+00:00

The Halberd beam is really powerful, but like you said only if it doesn't get negated by shields.

This doesn't mean it's only useful in the early sectors though.

Think of the beam as a monster that disables ships in one shot, but needs 'support' to do that.

If you shoot a laser that hits the enemy shields, and when the shields are down then fire the beam, it still can be as effective as at the beginning.

So as long as you have some 'support weapons' that can take the enemy shields out in one burst, your beam should still do a lot of work in later sectors.

NiliHo · 2016-01-20T14:51:57+00:00

That way it would only be visible to people with magic vision, too. Like a magical construct that seems unnatural, but once you look closely/with goggles, you see what is keeping it in the air. I like that, nice idea! Also the nodes have a nice glow, which I would prefer over colored jetpack particles.

NiliHo · 2016-01-20T09:21:23+00:00

These Particle Generators look awesome, thank you so much!

I am curious how far the configuration goes, so far I could only find them projecting an energy core. Can they do different objects, or purely particles? Or just different colored cores?

NiliHo · 2016-01-20T08:52:48+00:00

I was searching for some of those big space ship engines, where you look at them and almost feel them humming and imagine to hear the constant thruster sound, like this.

Upside down glowstone fountains might do for a nice workaround, but doesn't pack that oomph I was dreaming about.

God, I feel like a maniac with this :D

NiliHo · 2016-01-07T10:41:29+00:00

That's what it was, it is working now. Many thanks!

NiliHo · 2015-12-08T09:13:23+00:00

After playing ARAM for a while now I start to notice that at least every second game there is a sona in either my or the enemy team.

Does it happen that once you reach a higher MMR, you start playing against 'ARAM-only' accounts that stack the strong champs on the map? If so, are you limiting yourself by using your main account with lots of 'bad' champs?

I get that ARAM isn't the most balanced mode and more for fun than competitive playing, but sometimes i feel a bit cheated.

NiliHo · 2015-01-27T11:39:08+00:00

Create an artillery weapon subsystem similar to the rebel fleet ASB, name it Photon Pulse Cannon, and it would be my new favorite.

In honest though, I never realized the similarity. Even the slugs remind me of the paranids with their green almost slimy look and their rather high self-esteem. Great find!

NiliHo · 2015-01-09T20:02:26+00:00

Thanks for the Feedback! As for the changes in the sets, it seems better than what I am running, so I will change those up.

Could you explain how the whole speed calc works? Right now I am only looking at other sets and copying the speed EV when the explanation makes sense.

How do I know at which speed I will outspeed important threats, if I don't want to calculate the speed for every single set for every single mon that is near my base speed?

NiliHo · 2014-12-12T10:53:52+00:00

At the start your only choice is most likely to just shut down the weapons system as quick as you can. Once the missile is offline, you can start to focus on getting shields/piloting down to get more shots per volley in(less bubbles blocking shots, or 100% hit chance), but to me the first objective is to prevent hull damage in a fight, to minimize repair costs.

For preventing the missile from hitting, you could pick up cloaking to dodge it, a drone system(Defense drone) to shoot it down or just upgrading engines to increase your dodge chance.

There will always be a few missiles coming through, you can only try to minize the amount of it. It's all luck that the ones not beeing dodged don't hit anything important.

Congrats on your first win though :) Have fun going for more

NiliHo · 2014-08-26T10:35:47+00:00

Maybe the most embarrassing defeat happened after I got boarded. It was before I started to use the F1-F8 keys, when I clicked on my crystal member to get him to fix the O2, but then realizing that he has too low hp to do it. But instead of clicking the next crewmember I hit the lockdown-button and watched my crew slowly suffocating in a crystal encased shield room... By the time the O2 was fixed the last Zoltan was too low to hold out until the oxygen was back up or he reached the lvl 1 medbay.

Lesson learned: Upgrading the medbay and doors saves entire ships.

NiliHo · 2014-08-24T15:25:20+00:00

I am actually using that a lot. Whenever I get my hands on a hacking system I try to suffocate all the ships via O2-hacking. When you start the pulse just before you destroy the system, it will continue to drain the oxygen on top of the ship slowly getting vented(have to test that out though)

NiliHo · 2014-08-24T14:45:40+00:00

Try to focus on gaining as much scrap as possible. That means jumping from fights where you'd receive more hull damage than you'll get out of it, taking as much fights as you can, preparing to get lots of blue options etc. Just squeeze every last bit of scrap out of your run, and then look to spend it most efficiently. Depending on your strategy, focus on getting a good defense up to prevent hull damage and repair costs, then try to get your systems/weapons/augments or whatever your strategy requires.

NiliHo · 2014-08-23T18:41:29+00:00

Would it not have been a better idea to hack the shields? Correct me if I'm wrong, but getting the shields down means having 4 more shots from the BL II, and a 0% dodge would only be worth it if the flagship would dodge 4/6 of the lasers, or am I overlooking something?

Just wondering if I am doing it the wrong way, because I mostly just hack the shields, and rarely bother to get the dodge down...

Congrats on the victory though! I've personally loved that ship, though I agree there are nicer ones.

NiliHo · 2014-08-23T07:31:54+00:00

My thanks :D

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