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Vindicator Star Kingdoms guide
v2 summary.
Full guide, calculator, spreadsheet and other useful things available
at http://www-und.ida.liu.se/~andli382/skguide/
=== Newbie Mode ===
Some good guidelines to follow if you want to get a good start of
the game.
•Construct 90 star mines and 25 probe factories on the 115
free land which you start with.
•Pick the 15 land referral reward before the game starts.
you can enter a fake e-mail address, as long as it looks valid.
•Explore max land all the time while in newbie mode
•Pick both land and money rewards every day
•Train max soldiers
•Draft about 150 scientists, a bit at the time when you can
afford it, and put them on money- population and military research.
•Train military when it's 24 hours or more left until you
leave newbie mode. 400 troopers for offense, the rest laser troopers
and tanks.
•When you leave newbie mode, try to find kingdoms with 250-275
land, less than 19k NW, and coordinates close to yours, and hit
them with 1 WL + 100 to 110 troopers each.
•Repeat this to gain more land, use your probes to get stats
of people, or to rob kingdoms with.
=== Buildings ===
The most necessary buildings are barracks and powerplants. Chose
status in the menu. If the barracks capacity is over 100%, build
more barracks. If the power change is negative, build more powerplants.
Residences house civilians which make it possible for you to train
military (10% of the civilians can be drafted into soldiers each
day), and probes are good for robbing people and getting your stats
with, so you should always make many residences and factories every
time you hit someone. Spend the rest of the land in whatever way
you want.
=== Military ===
Until you have a high population, always train as many soldiers
as possible. You draft those into more advanced military, so you
can always save them for later, for when you can afford doing so.
Troopers and Dragoons are offensive units only, Laser Troopers and
Laser Dragoons are defensive units, Scientists research for your
kingdom, and Tanks + Tactical Fighters can be used for both offense
and defense. Some of the units need to be researched first, in order
to be trained.
If you don't want to get attacked early on, you should train many
Laser Troopers or Laser Dragoons. Ask sectormates or friends of
about your own kingdom size how much defense they have, if you are
uncertain about if your defense is enough.
=== Income ===
Your kingdom gains income at every hour change, both from Star Mines
and from taxes paid by the civilians. This money can be used to
construct buildings on your free land, or to train military.
=== Probes ===
Probes can be used to get stats of people, or to rob with. If you
want to find banks in an easy way, you can use the spreadsheet located
at http://www-und.ida.liu.se/~andli382/skguide/18_sheet.html . There
is also a detailed help file for it at http://www-und.ida.liu.se/~andli382/skguide/20_sheetexplain.html
, so that you will know how to use it. The most money probes can
return with is 10 money/returning probe.
=== Attacking ===
To attack someone, you need to get his SoM (use probes, chose sector,
chose spy on military, pick the correct kingdom in the sectorlist,
and send out the probes).
Then go to http://www-und.ida.liu.se/~andli382/skguide/16_calculator.html
, and enter your bonuses and values in the fields on the left part
of the calculator. Make other probings (Spy on Research, Spy on
Shields) of the person you will attack (or if you don't - just set
his shields to 10% and military research to 30%). Then enter how
much land he has, and if he is SL or not.
Copy the SoM to the text field, and press "get defender".
Then copy your own SoM (can be seen in Status - military status)
to the text field, and press "get attacker". After that,
press calculate, and the calculator will tell you how much you need
to send to be successful, or if the attack will fail no matter how
much you send.
Don't forget things like amount of WL's which you will send, and
your planet type. It's best to control everything twice if you want
to be sure to be successful. Also don't attack exactly at an hour
change, since people's armies will increase or war leaders which
are out might return then.
=== Doing good at SK ===
If you want to do good at SK, here are some advice:
• Never leave your kingdom too open. You will only get attacked
then, and it is no use gaining land if you will lose it all afterwards.
• Try to have a good probe ratio. Then you will be more successful
when probing other people, and they will beless successful when
trying to probe you.
• Rob much. It is the extra income from robbings which usually
makes the difference between an average player and a good player.
• Be nice to people, and make friends. Get AOL instant messenger
(most SK players use that), and be active in sector- and alliance
forums if you want to get to know people fast.
• Be active, and remember to pick both the rewards in the
menu every day.
• Try not to fail when attacking.
Written by Vindicator, 2005-04-20
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