I decided to do something crazy for fun. I set up my first colony in High threat beacon space with a station still active.
Points of note:
- 100% Vanilla
- Never took a commission, had to make money the hard way
- Allied with the Pirates as soon as I could
- AI controlled fleets with Astral/Paragons are nothing but speed bumps
- Fought over 100 Redacted fleets, can't beat their station yet
- Rank 3 Low Tech Battlestation with a Alpha core is helpless vs even 1 Redacted fleet
- Floating debris EVERYWHERE, wrecked droneships floating around I never have time to loot
What have I learned?
- It's a great way to Farm cores, 600+ gammas, 90 betas, 42 alphas
- Been turning in the Alphas to Tri-Tachyon to continue to fund this madness
- Losing even 1 ship forces a retreat
- Never fight without max CR and full Hull on every ship
- It's a great way to farm sparks, 200+ what's on my fleet
- It's a great way to farm Metals, 56,000 in my colony for shipbuilding
- Having a planet right there in the battlefield means Instant repairs
- I've Mastered kiting to split up enemy fleets so I can fight them 1 vs 1, when 8 are chasing you around you learn of die
- Killing their fleets seems to increase the max number that can spawn (could be wrong)
And the saga continues...