Galactic News #6 – June 6th

Hi everyone,

Welcome to this week’s Galactic News. Let’s jump right to the leaderboards where there’s been an exciting development…

Top Players – Main 2 Galaxy

• Top 10
• Climbers
• Fallers
• Scorched

The Top 10 players from the leaderboards

Grand Emperor

Rank		Civ	Player	Score
1	–		Rislem	284,917 +47,054
2	+2		Dirtdiver1979	226,868 +45,815
3	-1		Track	213,924 +30,586
4	+4		Raz	200,502 +47,517
5	+13		chiral	183,695 +59,413
6	+3		Praetor	178,396 +26,656
7	-1		Kalisa	176,878 +9,306
8	-5		AkodoKage	176,382 -5,108
9	+7		Centurion	171,230 +44,267
10	+1		MassiveBanana	165,287 +28,115

Master of Warfare

Rank		Civ	Player	Score
1	+3		Kalisa	142,188 +42,971
2	-1		Belisarius	137,808 +14,506
3	-1		DekeFentle	131,251 +18,350
4	-1		reukann	109,831 +1,764
5	–		Chaosone	70,816 +11,240
6	+19		AkodoKage	69,411 +36,855
7	-1		Rislem	68,473 +11,576
8	–		Praetor	57,493 +6,817
9	-2		Minroth	55,136 +890
10	–		Gavoid	54,897 +8,939

The players that achieved the highest rank increases over the last 7 days

Grand Emperor

Rank		Civ	Player	Score
5	+13		chiral	183,695 +59,413
4	+4		Raz	200,502 +47,517
1	–		Rislem	284,917 +47,054
2	+2		Dirtdiver1979	226,868 +45,815
9	+7		Centurion	171,230 +44,267
88	+100		Dranos	63,419 +35,560
3	-1		Track	213,924 +30,586
12	+2		Gavoid	160,993 +28,656
10	+1		MassiveBanana	165,287 +28,115
18	+2		Shibby	143,033 +26,761

Master of Warfare

Rank		Civ	Player	Score
1	+3		Kalisa	142,188 +42,971
6	+19		AkodoKage	69,411 +36,855
49	+54		Zyane	27,272 +18,532
3	-1		DekeFentle	131,251 +18,350
2	-1		Belisarius	137,808 +14,506
19	+18		Radik	41,804 +14,281
40	+24		fangspier	29,992 +13,480
25	+15		Shibby	38,641 +12,760
13	+5		Limpwad	48,655 +11,806
7	-1		Rislem	68,473 +11,576

The players that lost the most rank positions over the last 7 days

Grand Emperor

Rank		Civ	Player	Score
162	-141		Ban	37,830 -77,988
203	-111		Pikpok	27,919 -26,370
11	-6		Quezar	161,869 -16,714
179	-57		Cylon	33,926 -10,768
154	-47		Sternenwanderer	39,267 -10,403
78	-20		Baaklund	72,973 -9,545
213	-43		IronyTroll	25,342 -6,589
196	-43		Jengster	29,660 -6,051
382	-85		Jedares	5,215 -5,133
8	-5		AkodoKage	176,382 -5,108

Master of Warfare

Rank		Civ	Player	Score
184	-25		Nighteyes	3,116 -499
82	-16		Cylon	15,443 -425
168	-17		Jengster	4,125 -245
58	-9		Jedares	24,235 -172
164	-14		Jacqeiura	4,458 -101
152	-12		IcePremier	4,958 -84
283	-29		Darender	325 -62
193	-22		HugoSD_	2,645 -45
251	-16		Stukat	535 -44
85	-14		Zylon	14,684 -36

Last week’s highest ranking players that were scorched from the galaxy this week (wiped out or reset)

Grand Emperor

Civ	Player	Last Rank	Last Score
	Xanes_Alia	224	20,134
	Rae	233	18,635
	syndran	270	12,964
	Cypherlulz	299	10,129
	Crawfitter420	325	7,891

Master of Warfare

Civ	Player	Last Rank	Last Score
	syndran	231	644
	Cypherlulz	271	295
	Xanes_Alia	285	237
	Cvr	328	139
	Rae	329	138

There’s a new Master of Warfare!

Congratulations to Kalisa who after many epic battles has stomped their way to the coveted title of Master of Warfare.

The Grand Emperor Rislem continues to maintain a significant lead over the closest rivals. But as we saw with the Master of Warfare leaderboard, things can very quickly change from one week to the next.

Well done to chiral (+59,413) and AkodoKage (+36,855) who both put down some impressive points.

Technology Unleashed

• Key Markers
• Most Unlocked
• Most Spent On
• Most Difficult

Technologies that indicate progress players have made along certain branches of the tech tree

Tech	Item	Owners
	Small Bio-Farm	22%	162
	Government Building T3	31%	235
	City Center T3	15%	114
	ODS T1	44%	327
	x2 Troop Defense Strength	19%	137
	Fleet Dock T1	5%	32
	Shipyard T3	36%	271
	Beron Mine T3	41%	307
	Farsu Mine T3	39%	291
	Cargo Modules T2	36%	269

Tech	Item	Owners
	Zero Gravity Engine	39%	293
	Dark Energy Engine	40%	299
	Battleship	30%	224
	Minelayer T1	37%	276
	Minesweeper T1	21%	154
	Cloaking Module	33%	247
	Torpedo Launcher T3	13%	93
	Medium Cannon “Hellfire”	30%	224
	Power Beam T3	10%	72
	Orbital Strike T3	4%	27

The most unlocked technologies – excludes tech unlocked by 50%+ of players

#	Tech	Item	Owners
1		Frigate T2	50%	380
2		Farm T2	50%	379
3		Control Center T1	50%	378
4		Ship Scanner T2	48%	362
5		Energy Shield T2	47%	350
6		Kinetic Cannon SKC-3	45%	340
7		Olzine Mine T3	44%	332
8		ODS T1	44%	327
9		Ship Generator T2	43%	325
10		Power Station T3	42%	316

#	Tech	Item	Owners
11		City Center T2	41%	311
12		Power Cannon SPC-4	41%	308
13		Beron Mine T3	41%	307
14		Kinetic Cannon MKC-2	40%	301
15		Dark Energy Engine	40%	299
16		Ziryl Mine T3	40%	297
17		Zero Gravity Engine	39%	293
18		Power Beam T1	39%	292
19		Farsu Mine T3	39%	291
20		Entertainment Center T2	39%	291

Technologies players have collectively spent most of their research power on (Spent = Cost x Owners)

#	Tech	Item	Owners		Spent
1		Government Building T5	12%	89	1,001,250
2		Hyperspace Energy Engine	33%	245	918,750
3		Scout Engine	31%	230	862,500
4		Dreadnought	4%	25	843,750
5		Ship Scanner T3	10%	73	821,250
6		x4 Troop Defense Strength	9%	65	731,250
7		Minelayer T3	8%	60	675,000
8		Ship Generator T3	23%	173	648,750
9		Small Bio-Farm	22%	162	607,500
10		Extended Ordnance	22%	161	603,750

#	Tech	Item	Owners		Spent
11		Minelayer T2	22%	160	600,000
12		Minesweeper T1	21%	154	577,500
13		Extended Ordnance L	7%	51	573,750
14		Cruiser	20%	149	558,750
15		Carrier T2	7%	49	551,250
16		Government Building T5 (Syntis)	7%	49	551,250
17		Minesweeper T2	7%	48	540,000
18		Medium Bio-Farm	7%	46	517,500
19		x2 Troop Defense Strength	19%	137	513,750
20		Shipyard T4	6%	45	506,250

The most difficult to research technologies due to their high research cost

Tech	Item	Owners		Cost
	Fleet Dock T3	0%	0	101,250
	Orbital Strike T5	1%	1	101,250
	Torpedo Launcher T6 (People’s Realm)	0%	0	101,250
	Orbital Bomber	1%	3	33,750
	Large Bio-Farm	1%	5	33,750
	Lightning Gun T5	2%	12	33,750
	Fleet Dock T2	1%	1	33,750

Tech	Item	Owners		Cost
	Syntis Fleets T6	2%	9	33,750
	Dreadnought	4%	25	33,750
	Ripchee Power Beam T2	1%	2	33,750
	Orbital Strike T4	1%	6	33,750
	Missile Launcher T6 (People’s Realm)	1%	1	33,750
	Torpedo Launcher T5	1%	3	33,750
	Armor Bane Cannon ABA-S	1%	6	22,500

When we last looked at technology a month ago virtually none of the ‘Most Difficult’ technologies had been researched. But that’s no longer the case…

4% of players have now unlocked the fearsome Dreadnought class ship hulls. Researching and then building a dreadnought is one of the most difficult feats in the game. Well done to those of you that manage to do it!

Interestingly the Goverment Building T5 has become the tech ‘Most Spent On’ by players. A crucial advancement for players looking to expand their empire to as many colonies as possible while minimizing the effects of corruption.

Weapons: Energy vs Ordnance

Which weapons you choose to invest in will have a profound impact on how successful your fleets are in battle.

Energy weapons are on average more powerful but kept at bay while shields are up. Ordnance weapons are unhindered by shields, but risk running out of ordnance during a battle.

But which weapons do players prioritize – energy or ordnance?

In the above table we’ve compared research of 5 ordnance weapons against their energy weapon counterparts (all 5 levels of each weapon have been grouped into a single entry). We can see:

• When it comes to low-end weapons Energy weapons are preferred. Maybe because players don’t want to use up ship slots carrying ordnance and assume other players won’t be equipping their ships with shields?
• But when it comes to top-end weapons ordnance weapons are preferred. Players seem to value the AOE damage from missiles and torpedoes and are happy to pay the associated limbalt costs for ordnance.

That’s it for this week. If you didn’t catch yesterday’s alliances preview we recommend taking a quick look. See you again next week 🙂

– The Outscape dev team