I have recently been attacked multiple times a week and from multiple different players. Often I am able to avoid catosprohic losses due to me being able to conceal my resources, but other times not as lucky and get hit with some losses. In the end its a cat and mouse game, where I play the mouse and trying to avoid the cats.
In today's post I want to look at a unique opening in the game that can provide players with some advantages in reducing their loses when under an attack. This must be planned ahead in order to work, so its is not 100% full proof in protecting your resources.
When we construct space crafts and defense units it is certain that the player loses 70% of their resources if they cancel the construction before the unit has completed construction. This type of lose does not occur when we are constructing buildings or research. Here lies the unique plan to conceal resources.
In times where I am merging multiple amount of resources I will do so for the purpose of upgrading a building or research to level up skill. While the upgrade takes time to complete depending on what level I am trying to reach. The higher the level the longer it is to complete.
At times where I am being attacked and my resources are out in the open I have a couple of choices to avoid catastrophic losses. First is to use existing fleet to move away from attacker and bring as much of the stored resources to another planet. A second option is to spend away the resources before they get stolen.
I would often plan ahead of time and save just enough of certain amount of resources to is sufficient to run a research or a building, but not actually execute. This is because my goal is to save enough resources to specifically build or level up a specific building or research. In case of the picture above i could level my Ion Technology to the next level with my resources. I would execute the research in times where I see my planet being attacked. In turn remaining resources left in the open can get carried away if I do have cargo ships remaining but majority of resources is safely stored in the research being performed.
Once the attack is completed I can cancel the research and every bit of resource spent on that specific research is returned back to the my on that planet. I saved having to build up a fleet to move resources and still be accumulating resources on that specific planet.
I would do the same for if I was restricted in research in spending my resources in buildings. Put in the resources to build refineries or power plants and once attack is completed I undo the construction to retain all those spent resources.
Of course this method of hiding resources comes at a cost. For one I can only really hide the resources by paying attention to the attacks on my planets. I would not be able to conceal the resources if I simply went about building and doing research continuously. In that case I lack the position to pick what to construct and hide.
Another way to hide resources is simply to move them from planet to planet in a delay in transport. In snapshot above when I move my resources from one planet to another I can slow down the transport by using less Uranium which will extend the flight and hold the resources in traveling for a bit. Snapshot shows 100% takes close to an hour to travel to destination. However if I drop it down to 10% it pretty much takes more than 8 hours to travel to destination.
The key here is holding the resources in mid flight when I am not active in the game. 8 hours is a decent flight time since its how much sleep I try to get per a day. I schedule flights like these on all my planets on most days right before I sleep. Yet in all honesty I do not always remember to do this and have gotten hit with losses before. On the flip side it is great for saving valuable resources as the fleet and resources are in flight for extended period.
At the end of the day there are multiple ways to conceal resources, but these two are what I continuously use in the game. It is not perfect but helps as it alternatives than simply running fleets with resources when ever I get attacked. The first method I talked to construction buildings or perform researches is to immediately hide large amount of resources. Meanwhile the second method of moving fleets at a slower pace is to limit losses if attacked while I am away from the game. With the combination of both methods on top of just staying active to running fleets has created me a reasonable defensive strategy in protecting my resources. Now that I have shared these methods hopefully it can help other players perform the same.
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