SteemNova - My progress at "exploring" the game, so far.steemCreated with Sketch.

in steemnova •  7 years ago 

@SteemNova is a very interesting text based game.
It have been about 4 weeks since I started my game experience.

This is my first time playing this kind of text based browser game.

I had to learn alot about the game mechanics really quickly,
sometimes the painful way,
other times the annoying way.

But most of the time, the game was pretty enjoyable.

Like everybody else I started with a One little insignidicant planet.
163 Fields in size,
I learned quickly,
My tactics have to rely on quick expansion rather than building up defence.

So I did.
Soon after,
I had couple Heavy Fighters and Light Cargo to supply my expansion effords,
and first, One, then Two Colony planets.
182 Fields, and 227 Fields respectivelly.

Now that is something one can work with.

Few days have passed and I was invited into an Alliance .
Nice, that should protect me from ambitions of people with slight edge over me.

I noticed quickly, that I've ran out of Inactive players to farm for resource.

Now only Active players remain.

That would be the first diffculty peak I experienced.

Not being discouraged, an Ally suggested, "It's good to have Cruisers as early as possible".
I checked my Tech Tree, and come to conclusion.
Boy, I can have this up and running the next day.

For a while, having 10+ Cruisers was like being the strongest kid on the block.

In relative safety, I could focus on my infrastricture.
Heavily relying on energy produced from Solar Satelites.
I built up my Mines, aswell as Shipyard, and Research Lab.

That was a cardinal mistake.

One fateful morning I log on to see,
my entire Fleet, Defence,
and of course,
all my Solar Satelites,
were turned into a Debrie Field around my planets.
My Resource were stolen and myself left with very little production.

That was a hard pill to swallow.
I'm sure that's a turning point for many players,
You either change your tactics,
or you quit the game.

I chose the first option.

I began a slow and painful process of rebuilding.
Stopped to rely on Solar Satelites,
and maintained only defence so big as to discourage smaller fleets of raiders.

A threat from players in top 10 still remained,
and occasionally I'm being raided for resource.
But that I just accepted.
It is impossible for a newbie to defend against a fleet of 60 Battleships at once.
But there are ways to have steady growth, even with constant attacks.

I learned the importance of constantly transporting resources between my planets.
I utilize Recyclers, not just on my own debris fields,
I often send them on 7 hour journies to distant star systems to pick up Metal and Crystal for me,
if the big guys like fighting so much, I might aswell profit from it.

Things are still not the brightest, I still struggle with negative Energy production on nearly every planet I own.
But as of right now,
I'm listed # 36,
I have 4 planets,
and I have begun to build my fleet of Battleships.

Will I have my revenge?
Probably not.
But maybe next time someone attacking me will have a little surprise and loses few ships.

Thanks for reading

#jplaughing

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Did not realize who you were and looked at the statistics and found out we are in the same alliance ;)

I can not believe you have such high building stats for the amount of defense you have. I too felt a blow from being attacked and invested more into defense. The drawback is I grow a lot slower.

I am still on single planet and not even sure how to add more. Been playing the game for almost four weeks myself and I am no where near your stats. Maybe there is a way we can help each other? Thanks.

The thing is, I was much higher in Defence and Fleet, when people from first 5 positions come to your planet, you don't have any of it left anymore. ;)

man that is really difficult to block multiple top players. Really sucks. Maybe we should all pitch in on hanger crafts to block some of these assaults? While we have all resources focused on tech. upgrades and defense.

My defence improved, climbed to top20 in that metric. :)
Maybe few 1000 points more and I start doing fleet again.

4 weeks and 4 planets. That's pretty good.
I'm not sure if I'm going to try to find inactive spots to farm, I'll probably end up pissing some alliance off. LOL

With very few players in the game it's Farm or Be Farmed, I suppose. :)

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