you know that picture of Tom Cruise?

That's me

Hi guys,

Just wanted to explain a few things.

Firstly, congratulations to everyone who made the top 20 in the previous round. It was a pretty exciting around with some alliance changes, some people coming back with a new ID , some people completely destroying stations and planets and a lot of grinding!

Secondly, I apologise for my absence for the last month and more. I was involved in a pretty bad car accident and had to be in hospital. When I was discharged I had to recover at home. I'm not going to tell you guys my injury mainly because I don't think you would actually believe me if I did I was hoping to get revenge on MJ but I guess life is full of surprises.

Finally, due to injuries sustained I can no longer play space Odyssey full-time. So I guess this is my retirement. I'm still going to be involved in the forums and most likely be more on the forums then before. However, my space Odyssey time is over.

So thank you to everyone who made my journey so much fun. Thank you to spayed for being a good teacher and friend and Cameron for all his advice on combat. Thank you to Wesley for all the good conversation, thank you to fester and Saturn for being one of the two most mature boys in the game! Thank you for Highland for being himself, thank you for MJ for being himself and thank you for chicken for being himself

thank you to everyone who I haven't named!

See you guys on the forums

Well, after having my planet conquered by MJ (well done by the way ) I was left with about 8 counters. I didn't have much choice:

1. I had enough money on hand to Kami all his ships. However, MJ would get most of that back due to salvage and Marines going back to secret base. Plus since I did not have a planet there was no point in wasting money.

2. Use covert op. My 1st one I gathered intelligence and found his secret base had quite a bit of money. However, with all my counters he just managed to lose just under 100 tril credits.Please note this is how much he lost and not how much I received.I received just under 10 tril this is really small change for MJ

In other words, if a player is much higher than you, the counters won't have an impact. However, if the players are at the same level then maybe ... maybe it may have a use.

I thought I let everyone know how this implementation is going

The purpose of this thread is for anyone to post real random advice for new players. This can be anything from advice on how to play the game, advance strategies or advice to making friends or enemies etc etc.

Just post your advice and I try and put them all on one page.

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You can control what aliens appear in the incursion. This can be difficult if you are competing with another player for the same aliens. However, if you can work together you can get the aliens that you want. Since I'm lazy I'm just going to explain the important points and let you work out the rest.


1. when the aliens first appear, destroy the ones that you don't want to appear.

2. The spawning of aliens in the incursion is half random and is dependent on what aliens you have and how many players there are in your power level.

3. If at all possible, kill all the aliens when the alien Queen appear.

4. The more people you have at your power level, the more will spawn. However, if you do your calculation right you will find that there is a specific limit after which no more is spawn.



Stations should be your priority when you first start a new round. Every attack, every mission and every movement and every turn should be devoted into Station research. Don't be afraid of using 500 turns for Station research. Don't be afraid to just wait for turns at the start of the round.

Can I just clarify something?

If I am trying to take over someone's planet and I attack the planet 10 times, and the attacks fulfilled the criteria for counter, will I get 10 counters on me? If so, won't this update make taking planet even harder?

Most of the experienced players would know that being in the hall of fame is not indicative of skill. My opinion is this, if you can get to the top five then it indicates that you have commitment. Since it does take a lot of time (grinding aliens etc etc) to get to a good level in the game.

However, there are so many players with exceptional skills that do not bother with the hall of fame. There are many designers, PVP players and strategist that can't be bothered waking up at 2 AM in order to hybrids or P ships up.

As Saturn  said, this is just for fun

This is a situation that most PVP players find themselves.

Whenever I kami someone and I use some p ship fleets, I always have a main as my last fleet. I find that with the inclusion of this main, I will end up losing less in terms of percentage then my opponents. This makes my attack successful.

It sounds to me like a bug that only the big boss can fix. E-mail him directly in game.
maybe have a look at the system structures page ... are all your stations there including on the 2nd page?

I have to agree with Wesley on this. If you want to get the 12 hour reduction, you will need level 36. I can only imagine that the cost will be very high at this rate. I would rather spend all of the turns and command points into upgrading my planet.

you are such a dirty boy Wesley 

I would not consider myself mid-timer since my ID number is quite high (90397)

Another reason for name changes would be: Boredom

In one of the rounds my whole alliance changed our names. It was done for fun and to get an immature laugh from some people

I would agree to some extent with Wesley. If I could transfer all my things from my main account to another account, I would change my account as well. I have been in the top 10 enough times that it doesn't really matter whether people think I'm good or crap or a donator or whether I'm scary or dangerous etc etc.

Sometimes it's good to play an account where no one knows who you are. Sometimes when people don't know who you are you don't get all the alliance politics, you don't get asked to join alliance, you don't get asked for help with this and that. You can just play alone. you don't owe people anything and because they don't know who you are, they don't owe you anything. Sometimes it allows you to just have fun.  unadulterated fun with no strings attached.

I would think having its own research option would be best. The research costs should be quite expensive though and the minerals required to install it should be also expensive ... since cloaking a planet would be a big task.

personally, I won't do it because it's too much work for too little money