Well if you say it works i guess ill believe you but im just not understanding how to utilize 20 shields. I suppose that it is because i dont have the shield stack formula...

I like main. You can actually do stuff there and dday is fun 

 21 shields!? After about 8 you dont even get half a percent of additional abs and you would get absolutly nothing from 10 and on. How are you getting these numbers?

no, when you first start, you really can only afford 2 larva, then you can buy an overlord fleet to 3 fleets

Well , if you need any help, feel free to ask or visit the website in my sig

It doesnt need to be above the enemy necessarily. You need to destroy a % of the fleet from 30-50%. If your fleet power is equel to or above and you have at least 3 fleets, you should win. Sometimes you wont but most of the time you will

check out the other guide section and then click on starting out goals. Its how i usually start

You dont really need a "defense" ship. If you have to fleets of supership with 1atk/2hp ratio, they should be able to attack and defend fine. Also, to do missions, you'll want to have at the very least 2, preferablely 3-5 fleets

Fighting Santa! How dare you even suggest it

I did take it as a compliment and thank you for citing. I do pop on everyone once in awhile to check questions though

What?! SANTA!!!!

Wow, its like mine, in the sense that you took everything from it and posted it on a new website I dont mind but i dont really know why you did it

A great website, if I do say so myself, is cotaspaceo.17.forumer.com
There are a lot of help guides for you there. I would start out with this one to learn about how to make fleets and do missions and stuff

http://cotaspaceo.17.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?p=10#10

So, I guess im disbanding the galactic acadamy. I want to join a real alliance for at least a round. Ill still be posting stuff on the cota website though and im glad to help any noob who has questions so you can send them to me

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