Meet the Monster

Introduction

This will be my 3rd time coming back to Ocrack on and off since 2006

i was lurking around on reddit one day and got directed somehow into post about lifeforms coming and got intrigued, when looked closely a lot have happened since my last departure, player/alliance classes new ships, research improvements etc

one of particular changes that picked my interest what a increase to planet size given by disco and researcher plus change to u1 from 25 to 30 fields as i recall correctly.

at this point calculations was done and decision made

i created account on 14.08.2022 while working from home with one goal in mind - create planet that is 500 fields, not 499 and not 501

Calculations

the maximum field size in uni1 new design planet is 363 fields

premium planet field provide 20/15/9/4 - 48 fields in total

transformer provides 5 slots every level and 6 slots every 2nd level

knowing from the past that landing a planet on high end of range is near on impossible, i decided to colonize and keep everything above 350fields base while developing the account in order to pay for this as it wasn't going to be quick and cheap project

as it currently stand all 14 of my planets are 400+ fields, with teraformers lv10 and no paid slots.

Cost

Orignal project revolved around 4 major components

after serval 100s of attempts to colonize, quickly realized that the base minimum for this will be

Planet base of 353 fields - managed to get that on planet 6/7 so that was that after sending 1000s so it wasn't going any higher

all shop bonuses of 48fields

teraformer level 18 with 99 fields

please find the table below

at that point i began to save all shipyard que speedups i could get my hands on from all login event rewards and dailies as it was going to be alot

Unexpected

decision came to start saving up for this after getting planet 14 and working on mines abit so my deut buying power goes up

i was doing a standard send 20 colo missions few min apart n delete as they come , aiming as usual for 350+ to cap with others i got but then i nearly deleted it

a 359 field colony happened on attempt number 3752 for those who wish i have excel sheet with all attempts sizes/temps

359 field base cut the requirement of building teraformer to level 17, therefore the total cost by half

i was very impressed with that result and decided to start the project early, and began buying deut and saving the ress, just bumped mines a little to carry, and proceeded to raid/expo as disco at about 1bn msu in pure ress average for weeks to come

Task Event Reward

you can imagine my surprise that a regular login event have been turned into task one 1st time in what 2years i been told, and the reward offered was non the other a free teraformer level that nobody would chose as everyone goes for espy point but camon free tera level 17 cuts the cost of the project by half - again

With all that considered as the event was happening i already had 80% of ress saved for it + all the shipyard que reduction items so it was just blessing

Joho provided last 1bn deut and rest is history

it took about this many sats

and as it happened i ddnt have to do , but i made decision to do a grav 6 with original energy cost to build tera 17, so im not the one to change my mind once decision is made

so i build it anyway whats few extra sats ay

total cost of the project not counting nearly 4000 colony ships

1.330.000 solar sats

teraformer 1-16 with free level 17 click

Final Words

there are many players out there i have meet over the years with similar goals in mind, just build something for sake of doing it, that are meet with harsh criticism from other so called pros that want to teach you how to play this game, how this and that isnt good or is not most effective way to do this - dont ever let this ppl talk you down, do what you want n fuk em no1 cares, one can argue that it isnt effective for them guys to build fleet as they get crashed but hay ho each to them own,

happy ocracking everyone

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