I post very few hits, but i'm posting this one due to the 'interesting' story that comes with it.
I spotted the target with research lab 12 (but nanite 1), and set him on my target list.
Later i spotted he had 12 million in fleet + sats, and knew it was time to strike before the competition did (before anyone comments there is enough fleet for a 20% hit)
He comes online with 10 mins to go, but i figure I might still be able to get the sats if he's not careful. I probe the planet and see that instead of saving the fleet, he has used dark matter to finish his Grav production (900k DM he told me, i think he had to buy some resources in addition to the production queue). So the target finishes his Grav tech, but it isn't finished there. He then scraps most of his satellites into resources, 1/2 of which ends up in my cargo bays (you can't build much with crystal and duet!).
Graviton Tech is supposed to be difficult to achieve - but apparantly DM can overcome most of this game's difficulties. The fact that this hit was almost as profitable as if he hadn't even been online shows that DM cannot buy skill...
Anyway the target must have thought i was above the retreat ratio, so he did not save his fleet and here we are:
On 30-06-2016 --:--:--, the following fleets met in battle:
Attacker Diarmundy [D I]
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Large Cargo 60
Light Fighter 4.385
Heavy Fighter 52
Cruiser 77
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Defender malalpha [United]
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Battleship 35
Recycler 5
Solar Satellite 1.463
Destroyer 20
Rocket Launcher 1.814
Light Laser 20
Heavy Laser 4
Gauss Cannon 10
Ion Cannon 3
Plasma Turret 40
Small Shield Dome 1
Large Shield Dome 1
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After the battle ...
Attacker Diarmundy [D I]
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Large Cargo 55 ( -5 )
Light Fighter 3.867 ( -518 )
Heavy Fighter 50 ( -2 )
Cruiser 73 ( -4 )
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Defender malalpha [United]
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Destroyed!
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The attacker has won the battle!
The attacker captured:
0 Metal, 1.271.131 Crystal and 360.619 Deuterium
The attacker lost a total of 2.268.000 units.
The defender lost a total of 17.761.500 units.
At these space coordinates now float 3.150.700 metal and 3.545.500 crystal.
The attacker captured a total of 1.631.750 units.
The chance for a moon to be created from the debris was 20%.
The enormous amounts of free metal and crystal drew together.
A moon was formed around the planet with a diameter of 8.774 km.
The attacker(s) captured the debris.
Summary of profit/losses:
Summary attackers(s)
Metal: 1.474.700
Crystal: 4.232.631
Deuterium: 352.619
The attacker(s) made a profit of 6.059.950 units.
Summary defender(s)
Metal: -8.773.000
Crystal: -7.998.131
Deuterium: -2.622.119
The defender(s) lost a total of 19.393.250 units.
Maybe this post should be in suggestions, but i would like to post another issue i have with some of the newer 'features'.
Recently i trapped 20mil resources on a moon, and the target used them all in the auction to deny me, creating this hilarious picture:
PS. I wish the crystal boosters were mine!
