Yep!

cool idea

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@@haisesasaki8198 no joke. I just need some advices

@@LeWonderman ​ I have written this advises before in Corey "Every new Empire at War player needs to know this!" video. I guess you can have something for your future playthrough. I have like 4 thousand hours in this game (2k in mods) and want to share some mechanics/wisdom/"abuse" for cruel admiral or other hardcore challenges (like "from the ground up 1 planet start or similar hardcore difficulty): 0) the most important one - ALWAYS do galaxy map managing when PAUSED, don't allow AI to take advantage of that ridiculous millions credits boost and x2 faster build time and play on the slowest galactic game speed as Corey has shown in video (you can always change the speed or press speed up button if need bee). 1) There are planets with abandoned mining facilities on them, on some planets they are constant (not random) and very close to default landing invasion point. you can CAPTURE this mines for +800 credits then immediately retreat and repeat, the mines +800 credits will be refreshed EACH and every time you attack ground battle. I have found some planets with 2 mines: Ton-falk, Sarapin (old SW: EaW Shola map template) has 2 mines and Yag'Dhul has one AT the pretty much landing invasion location (so easy to take and retread in less than 15 seconds of in-game time) for easy $ farming in early game (the only thing that allowed me to win as Eriadu Authority on large galaxy scale (175+ planets) from the single Kampe planet into deep core era 4+ in less than 20 cycles! This was so hard). 2) About economy and managing infrastructure. You will have a small window of opportunity when new cycle has begun and you have less infrastructure score than 0 - you'll have 100% cost penalty for EVERYTHING until your infrastructure score will go >=0 gain (and if less than -30 -200% penalties and build time increasing too). Default moff/senate main building is taking 40 seconds to build (each cycle is 40 in game seconds) - so you almost can't get them to build on time for new cycle. All economic building (mines, taxes, trade ports) are 60 seconds to build (1.5 cycle) BUT our sweet barracks will be built in only 20 seconds (light factory 30, heavy 40 etc, shipyard tier 1 - 20 sec, tier 2 - 25 sec, tier 3 - 40 sec, tier 4 for dreadnaughts and top tier ships - 60 seconds). So you COULD fit at least one barracks per planet in between cycle and increase your infrastructure score fast. 3) You want to tax the shit out of your planets like no tomorrow, but each tax agency decrees influence (happiness basically) by -2. You want to have at least 4 out of 10 influence on each planet (if there are no special units like Kedable battleship on Mandalore at 10 influence - you don't need to have happy planets). In order to build TWO tax agencies, you will need to build local infrastructure that cost -250 credits per turn for upkeep, NOT effective. However, you could build 2 tax agencies to double the basic income on each planet that has level 3 and higher (3 is perfect) space station level. You get 5 influence as default for each planet, main building (moff/senator/local HQ) give +1, all ground slots full give another +1, all SPACE slots: tier 3-5 station + shipyard + space defense (I build the cheapest one) and trade station (has 15 global limit to build) or Golan population station will give you +1 influence too. So if you have enough credits you could build all this slots full and have influence of 8 that will grant you opportunity to build 2 tax agencies. On planet with 300-400-500 base credits you will get 900-1200-1500 credits by taxes alone. AND if you'll have ANY company slot available you will get +1influence much faster and could not bother with space slots at all (space are very expensive, ground could be filled with 20 seconds and 750 credits barracks to build). 4) If you attack ground and have for example 4 tanks in squad, you could LOSE 2 out of 4 tanks and the whole unit will be repaired and like a new for next battle, however if you have for example 3 tanks/planes in unit, and lose 2 - your unit will get destroy after battle, so lose only 1 plane/tank out of 3 or 2 tanks/planes out of 4. Same with infantry - you could easily lose some troops in each of the squads and your unit will be gone after battle - be careful. In space if ANY unit but the SSD (super star destroyer and analogies) will have at least 1% hp at last point and you win/retreat the unit will be repaired for free, so you can tank with tier 4 ships easily, and your SSD can't tank with its HP (their repairs is a pain to ass, and the shield will be gone if you lose 10% hull and more in battle, so be careful, this toys are expensive). 5) Some factions will have absurdly overpowered units as rewards for special missions. At the start of each 4 cycle/weeks you will have random mission, if complete you will have 2 limits ground Juggernaut-6, Protodeca, Producator/Maelstorm battleships, Providence Dreadnaught, Mandator-II for CSA (ship market mechanics, it's like 0.3% drop chance, I got lucky with 2-3 reloads), OP flying turbolaser monster for New Republic etc, etc, etc. You guessed it, just save your game before the ending of 3/7/11 etc. cycles and REROLL (don't like this word but "save scum") if you want, I try to get at least one OP ground unit and at least 1 good unit reward for tanking in space combat to live a happy life at this galaxy conquest. This is on CRUEL admiral and the enemy pop out fleets like Papa Palp his OP ISD fleets in that disgusting Episode 9 by Disney so I think you want to even the odds a bit.

You can put mutiple of the same military building to make production faster

@@LeWondermanPart 2 (damn youtube) 6) About hero buffs, the mechanics is a bit weird in it and not quite simple for newcomers. You'll have your admiral/general tier level - this is your bread and butter, the HIGHER buff in each section (hp, damage, shield, speed etc.) will applied to all unit BUT this general/hero, So, you have a glorious Grand-Admiral Trawn with the highest damage buff (tier 1 demi-god with "art lover" +10% damage monster for whopping +30% damage and 20% each other stats boost) and you could increase this stats for 5 percent for "warlord/hutt lord/hero of Endor" traits (in game help has a "this stuff is stacking) - ONLY one "stacking" buff works, so the max amount is 35% damage for Trawn's fleet, BUT not for himself. If you have tier 2 admiral (legitimacy mechanics) Grand-admiral Grunger in Superstar destroyer his amazing tier 2 admiral with some other buffs = +30% damage +25% defense (etc) bonuses will work for all fleet BUT himself, and his SSD is 210 out of 300 of your fleet, so you need another hero that can buff his SSD - at least default Palleon for Tier 2 vanilla admiral. So you can't get like 10 hutts lords/warlord in one battle and has +100% damage etc. Only the HIGHER tier buff is applied. Same works with debuffs, if some hero gives major debuffs just send some hero/admiral that has at least >0 buffs in this section and the debuffs are gone, only benefits. And YES, if for example you have Papa Palpatine as ground hero but his icon says (ground/space) you can bring him in a little shuttle far far away from battle and the Emperor will grant all his tier 2 buffs with 0 population cost. That’s why 0-1 population heroes are so good to buff your fleets like Wedge Antilles (Tier 2 + hero of Endor +5% buffs). 7) Ground (and space from recent patches) heroes are HARD to kill, they have like 0.12-0.25 (different weapon) weapon damage penalties for them, only lighstabers works with 0.75 penalties. So that jedi/sith is not reliable killable for basic infantry/vehicles, so major heroes like Yoda/Papa Palpatine/etc could be a pain in the ass to beat by hutts/CSA and other factions with weak ground hero/units rosters. Just bombard these legendary heroes with turbolasers (air bomb strikes works too) from orbit - instant death if you lure them in position, I managed to kill Grievous, Dooku, Asajj Ventress with 1 lucky bombardment, they very chasing one of my ground tanks (don't bite them with infantry, the will demolish any squad). 8) Some ships/fleets could easily overkill one position on enemy ships/stations, you waste like 80-90% of your DPS if you don't control your damage. It's only from experience of different fleets combinations - but I try to snipe each and every hardpoints with focus fire and counting 1-2-3 very fast in my mind than focusing another point, if you get used to it you could easily outdamage AI fleets with your while your main tank ship could take all the punishment. If you already lost major shield on your ships - don't WASTE your time on their ion canons, I manage to kill 4 ISD-I to focus fire only their turbolasers/hangars with my own ISDs and have 0 losses. 9) If enemy has a pretty big fleet AND that OP tier 4 shipyard that spawns 2 ISD like ships as garrison units - you could attack the first time, HIDE (don't throw them all in the battle immediately, use pathfinder slot ALWAYS) all of your major damage dealing ships and when AI will charge you with all it has (you can lure them with 1 population corvette or whatever is bigger than Starfighter) you can deploy ships as close to enemy shipyard as possible and snipe it down then retreat and repeat the battle (you can do this with bombers or superlaser too). Enemy will not have like 50% of their fleet strength with their tier 3-4 shipyard gone. This are the main advices in cruel admiral or hardcore galaxy conquest, may the Force be with you and have a good luck, commanders. 10) Companies -30% time and - 30 % cost reduction does NOT stacks with labor camps (no 45% time reduction) and other discounts, so don't bother. Kuat is your bread and butter for Republic/Empire (warlords) to pop out fleets and vehicles. You SSD would have not 360 but 270 "seconds" (each cycle is 40 secs) to build. 11) For easily boarding/stealing action you can focus fire all trubolasers on enemy ships and press "retreat" with your fleet, if you have units in control groups 1-10 you can order them to MOVE again when the retreating after 11 second timer starting - in this way you can advance forward (not turning you "ass/rear" to enemy) and DON'T fire on the ship you want to steal, it's so easy to do when I discovered this "cease fire" type of order/abuse/cheese. You can cancel the retreat order and repeat it again as you like. You can even steal "free" ISD class ships from shipyard level 4 - just kill all garrison except the needed ship - disable weapon on it, steal it and retreat - when you attack again the shipyard tier 4 will spawn this good ships again for free, I made like 2 full 300 population fleets on turn 4 in my New Republic FTGU cruel admiral walkthrough. Ask me anything, I'll try to help. Good luck, admiral.

The retreat time is a fixed value per faction. Hyperspace speed is set per ship, but if you make stuff too slow then the AI starts to run into problems.

Right now there's not really anything to say. There's no plans for an Ascendancy 2 at this point.

There isn't a date for the next update, I'm assuming you're looking at the date for the prior update? We will be doing Umbaran assets at some point, but that basically comes down to when artists are able/willing to make them.

@@CoreyLoses Oh, yes, perhaps I looked at the previous update, in any case, thanks for the answer.

1. Right click 2. No

Thank you

2. Not without going into and editing the files