Advanced SF Tactics
			   	  By A Garkenesha



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How to divide up your land/roids.
Many people will tell you different ways to divide up your land/roids, but it REALLY 
depends on how you play.  What I have found to work best for me, and most other top 
players agree, is to divide up your land in a way that optimises your ship building.   
So in other words you calculate the best ratio for building the particualr ship your on, 
and try to share out your land evenly.  Here's an example incase you don't quite fully 
follow what I mean:

say you have an empire with 1000 land and 800 roids. 
this empire only has talons/vettes and needs to start building dd's.  
this empire also has adv. mines and power researched, and needs to keep researching
2 vettes+eagle+9 talons = 47250k upkeep.
dd's cost 14k power, 22k metal, 15k deuterium, 600k credit, 1500 cadets 
and costs 8k per tick to maintain
So, we need to work out how to keep researching at a decent rate, and be able to 
build dd's as fast as we possibly can, while still making money.
so, we first start out with seeing if we can make 1 dd per day.

14k power /24 ticks = 584 power per tick.
22k metal /24 ticks = 917 metal per tick
8k deu   /24 ticks = 334 deu   per tick 
600k credits / 24 ticks = 25k credits per tick
1500 cadets / 24 ticks = 63 cadets per tick
375k credits(cadet training costs) / 24 ticks = 16k
plus the extra 8k maintance cost.

so, that means that we need
277 powerplants (+63 for resident power)
184 metal mines
167 deu mines
205 tri-lith mines(non-herogen)
252 residence (126 power needed)

So we need 556 roids and 592 land, which leaves us with a nice 400 land for researching.  
Once researching was done, that extra land would be put into dplats, or fabrication plants

This mean that we have a spare 244 roids for Tri-Litium mines, which would give us an extra 
48k creds per tick.  But the current upkeep for the ships is roughly 48k credits per tick.  
So, while the empire could make enough resources for 1 dd per day, they would soon find 
themself VERY short on cash.  So the best thing for this empire, is to research population 
tax as soon as possible, and try to spend a few days leeching for roids.

Hammering Ships
This is a very simple tactic, that everyone should be using, if you want to keep up with the top 
empires. Instead of selling ships on the market, you use your "Big-Hammer" research to retire, 
or "hammer",  the ship you want to replace and use the extra resources gained to begin construction 
of a larger ship.  While not much of a boost at the start of the game when your using vettes/talons, 
when you get to the larger ships, hamming a falcon or cruiser makes a big difference when trying to 
make a SF.  It depends on whether you need the cash(from selling it on the market) or the resources 
(from hammering it).


NW Breakdown
alright, these are only rough estimates(which for the most part seem acurate) because Cwilms 
won't release the real values.
1 Power = 1 NW
1 Cadet = 1 NW
1 Built Land = 100 NW
1 Built Roid = 150 NW
Vette = 10k
Wolv = 20k
Talon = 30k
Raven = ? buggered if i know, never built these useless things
Eagle = 50k
Frigate = 50k
DD = 60k
Gunship = ??
Falc = 120k
Cruiser = 150k
Sov = ??
Dread = 250k
SF = 300K



Powerpushing
An Endgame tactic to get your NW as high as it possibly can.  By putting all of your land onto power 
it will give you extra NW because 1 power = 1 NW.  This means that if u have 3k land and have it all 
on fusion plants, you get 300k NW for that built land + 450k NW from the stored power (once filled).
It will, however, take 75 ticks to completely fill the power plants, so this needs to be done a few 
days before the round ends.


Newbie Mode
Ok, i'm not sure if this tactic is really worth it..  loosing the first couple days research for 
an extra couple of vettes when you leave n00b mode might not exactly be the greatest trade off ever.
anyway, if u haven't guessed, this tactic is where you demolish your starting 50 research labs and 
put them into power.  This tactic is really only usefull if u know that u can get large enough to 
replace those lost research ticks quickly.


Version 1.4

- Numerous updates to destroyer costs

- Fixed spelling errors/gramatical mistakkes

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