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Flag ships what is the point of them?

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  • Lordzues81
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Jul 16 2014 1:34 pm

Flag ships are just 6 motherships and 6 mother ships cost a little less then a flag ship. i really dont see the point in a flag ship. now if they gave a defense buff then i would see the point in them but they don't. all i can tell from them is that they cost a little more and every time you make one everyone knows about it on the chat system so mainly its like a big sign saying come kill me now.

so if some one can tell me the point in having one then pls do.


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Jul 16 2014 1:51 pm

Think of the combat as two lines facing each other. the first in the line takes damage first and when its dead the remaining damage goes to the next place and so forth untill all the damage is accounted for. if 5 mother ships attacked 6 granted that both sides have the same perks/bonuses 5 of the defending 6 are destroyed and cannot be repaired leaving one mother ship. a flagship on the other had would win the fight and repair itself so you dont need to spend resources to buy the lost ships in the case if you defended 6 mother ships. In a nutshell the damage is not spread evenly among ships so you lose ships, with a big ship it can soak up more damage and repair itself if still alive.

We could have the same troops, same perks, same layout, and it still wouldn't a fair fight
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Jul 16 2014 2:32 pm

ok lets say we both have 110k naq you buy a flagship with it i buy 6ms with mine o wait 8k naq left over so i buy 9 dg with it i would win hands down because you just spent all you have on a big over sized ship while i figured out how to win against it. so flag ships are useless.

yes i lose some ships but in the end i still win and i just wiped out your only defense so i move on to taking your planets and reset you.

this is a strategy game and i just won because i looked at all my options and seen a way to win. i dont know if the dg were the best way to go in using that naq to win but it got the job done.


thats why i say whats the point in a flag ship?


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Jul 16 2014 3:51 pm

Yeah, it's cheaper to kill a flag ship with ....6ms.... I wouldn't waste that, but you can do that. Flag ships are still 100% useful and the only reason I can play the game without spending money. You'll see eventually.

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Jul 16 2014 4:00 pm

can you message me telling me why there useful because i would really like to know

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Jul 16 2014 7:48 pm

I can't explain it, they just are. They're back up power.

Oh and for your scenario up there, consider this: You have 6ms and 9 gliders (which by the way is only about 65% chance of victory) and I have 1 flag ship, 3 bombers, and 14 gliders. I win and only lose 25,400 naq, while you lose 110,000 naq. Who wins in that scenario?

(That's not even taking into consideration my weapons tech, so I could very well do it with even less losses by sending even less.)

You have to spend a little bit more to save a lot more in the end. And it works out to be far more worth your money since you don't only use it that once, you use it all the time.

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Jul 16 2014 8:04 pm

My point the little extra for the flag ship and the reuse value makes it more economically advantageous so if you truely had the indepth planning and less of the expendability logic you would have noticed that.

We could have the same troops, same perks, same layout, and it still wouldn't a fair fight
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Jul 16 2014 8:12 pm

I didn't read your post, I had no idea you already told him that. He asked again, I told him.

Who has a bottemless wallet? You mean me by that?


You could also win with 8ms and 60 gliders, but that would be foolish if you had the flag ship and weren't pressed to save it's health.

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Jul 16 2014 9:56 pm

if you think about it, if you bought 129dg the overall atk power is greater than 6ms, but with 6 ms you can atk without loosing so much, where is you atk with a fs and loose no units and it re gens health, having a fs is overall the better choice for 110k naq

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Jul 16 2014 10:00 pm

Mine explains it all. Sending 6ms and a flag ship is a horrible idea, ms do not work the same way as flag ships do. Not even close.

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