Xilent, your now member of the Fleet We're working on Name tags at the moment. Let's see where that ends xD
managed to get what I wanted, thanks for offering up the help, guys. Also, this makes me really wish that I had gotten push party invites up and running for the initial release... :/
Argh... was playing against you and was just about to wipe you out after managing to repel your insane harvester invasion. You only had a few left, and then the server froze. I was about to win that too... EDIT: I also found out the way to counter a harvester spam WITHOUT harvester spamming!
lol! that was so much fun. Nobium wiped out my base and everyone with a bunch of harvesters in the beginning. So I only had my one harvester left so I duplicated and then took him out haha. then you managed to repel my invasion somehow and I was regrouping quickly but the server froze. Heh that was a fun match. Even if it was incomplete EDIT: yes you did haha, I thought I would be able to pull through there but you took them all out.I think it helps if you seperate the harvesters a bit.
Yeah, I figured out how to repel the harvester invasion without using a ton of harvesters. It's a useful strategy, for sure. I'd love to be in the 2nd Fleet too, if you could PM Vingdoloras for me since I just played against you.
I'm so happy on the community that this game has. . I tried harvester rush and omg it's too overpowered. Ipersonally like red better just bc o the way the destroyers look. I do wish that red got a few more units though. Some long range. Great game. Still haven't finished campaign
I also enjoy red onewithchaos. I agree that they should get some other unit. Maybe Gideon could become a unit? and he has some sort of healing and buff ability to nearby units? Anyway if your stuck I can try and give you some hints
Xilent, you didn't PM me, you left a visitor message xD but anyway... Kunning, this (playing vs a random group member) is not how the system should work (Xilent was just approved, so he's still new in the group). We will soon have a few people (we will make them visible in our group info message somehow, and they will probably use a special prefix in their Red Conquest account name) to test newcomers. Anyway, I'm gonna let you into the group. Why? You seem to have found a counter-tactic for harvester spam, which means that you probably also got the gaming basics. Welcome to the 2nd Fleet
Alright, the counter to the harvester spam is something like this. (Green Faction Only) You need: 7 harvesters 1 base 3 carriers 3 destroyers 3 corvettes 1 healing unit Position it so that the base and the healing unit are both right in the middle of formation, where the base can shoot at any side of the incoming harvester invasion and the healing unit can heal the units being damaged. Six (remember, ONLY FOUR TO SIX, NEVER SEVEN) harvesters are at the front line since they're easily disposable and can protect the back units. Behind the harvesters are the destroyers, since they excel at combat and will provide damage bonus and support fire to the front line of harvesters. The destroyers should be in a vertical line next to your base since they have lots of health and can defend your base. Behind those are the corvettes, they'll be able to long range snipe harvesters from the back, and in worse cases, buy some time if you're flanked from the back so the destroyers can take over and prevent your base from being damaged. As a last resort, ALWAYS have one to three harvesters on the far side of the map just in case the plan fails if you don't have the correct organization or because the harvesters managed to take out your entire front line before you got things in place. These harvesters will replicate and be able to destroy the other harvesters. Why? Because even if 30 or so harvesters came at the aforementioned defense, only three to four would be left. WHILE your units are getting destroyed, have the harvesters on the far end of the map replicate. Then you manage to counterattack the harvester invasion with a divide and conquer maneuver. Took me some experimentation, but thanks to Xilent Rain for confirming this worked (bet it surprised you too!). Hope you guys find this useful.
I'm confused with this Harvester Spam thing? Is this a bug? Tried asking it last night but no answers.. I haven't played with Green as much as I should have but I'm not sure what everyone is talking about. Is it because everyone of the Green units can make other units?
haha yeh, very surprised. It also helps when your main base is up against an asteroid field or two so that the enemy has a hard time sneaking up on you through the asteroids EDIT: 5duc29, no it's not a bug but since the green harvesters build quickest, can duplicate, and have combat ability, many people make a ton of harvesters really fast and overwhelm the enemy by sheer numbers
it is definitely an oversight, and will be tweaked for sure in the next update (coming soon! bug fixes etc). FYI, all units in green can replicate themselves. It means that no matter how wiped out you are, if you still have a resource collector you're not out of the game! Green is very resilient.
Any idea on how long the sale will last? I'm trying to get my friend to buy it but he says he needs to wait until he gets paid. Knowing him he probably won't buy it if it goes back up to regular price.
