Hive Nova - Random Thoughts

One of the most crucial element of the game is gathering resources. Whether it is by means of building producing resources or attacking dormant players for resources the faster one is to accumulating resources the faster they are in building and expanding their planets.

In the race to the top there are whale players and watching them grow daily will further increase the gap between the haves and the have nots. Only way for the little guys, like myself, to stand a chance is to continue to starve away attackers while steadily growing my resources.

I find it humbling that top players are literally 6x or more in assets than I am even though I in the top 100. The top players, let say around top 5, can easily destroy the competition below. What I ponder is will there be any chance for minnow players like myself who started late in the game to be able to catch up?

If speed is important to catch up with the pack I am pondering some speed methods to chase the top players when it comes to stats. First one that comes to mind is attacking dormant players as much as possible to extract as much resources as possible.

One way of attacking fast and extracting resources is to go on attacks with spy probes. Since probes travel the fastest they don't carry much in resources. In total five resources is all they can hold. With fuel taking up some of the storage they may end up with little to no storage capacity. However finding nearby dormant planets will lower the fuel usage and using a bunch of probes in a single attack can yield decent resources.

Imagine 1,000 probes in a single attack and if fuel is at 1,000 uranium they still have 4,000 to store resources. An attack and return taking less than 5 minutes and equating to 4,000 in resources is pretty sweet. Do that for like 20 times an hour you get 80,000 in resources. Of course you would need to be near multiple dormant players but idea can expand to further planets with less earnings per an attack. The burning of uranium will be a handicap.

Without large supply of uranium I would not be able to run that many attacks in an hour, but quick gains in resources is nice to have as it helps expedite building growth throughout my planets.

As I move over on buildings another type of construction that holds up in points and boosts my potential to get in top 5 is research. In order to do a lot in research I believe I need to leverage what the game has to offer, such as using Intergalactic Research Network. I would need to level up my labs on all my planets and continue to level up Intergalactic Research to accelerate the time to do different researches. In addition I would not need to transport resources as I have them spent at the planets that can perform research.

I am far from getting even two planets to level 10 lab before I can integrate their research. In any case this is what I am eyeing to do next in order to build up my research points. However my first step is to get the labs to level 10. Looking into building at least two planets with level 10 before I proceed with Intergalactic Research.