How NOT to plan a starbase
Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2022 10:59 am
OK, you've resisted the urge to jump on the first bandwagon thinking it's too expensive and resource intensive even if you had the money and resources.
Couple of weeks later you start buying schematics, without doing the maths. After all, you're a high level player with lots of unused cash on hand. Then, a billion later, you take a big breath and stop buying. You swear to stay away from Wallex and Humanix.
You start selling resources so you could recover the loss. It's either that or continue to sink money into schematics just because you have them. Oh well, it was fun thinking you will have your own, private starbase.
Couple of months later you get bored of hunting, mining, salvaging and cargo runs and fire up your trusty workbook to start adding up some figures. Oh, boy, Coops wasn't kidding! That's a shipload of resources! Naah, not for me... but the itch is there.
Months go by and you start noticing you're about to level up and swear you'll get a starbase for your 185th level. What could go wrong? (famous last words, right?)
So, it really starts: deposit couple of billions in the starbase escrow, sell some fuel in order to finance the resource buying, have a nervous breakdown realizing some resources can be categorizes as unobtainium, swear some more when you redo the math for the hundredth time (fun fact: resources sold in stores will cost you a cool 6.3 billion), but keep on going. What is one more billion after all?
Here you are now, with only some unobtainiums on GBM (by the way, stop hoarding them, daddy needs a new starbase!), down to your last couple of billions and with your deadline passed.
But no worries, the SinkHole will be buit!
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TLDR: do not even think of building a starbase on your own if you don't have at least the named resources and the unobtainiums.
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/LE
Credit go to GBM, Sven, TDK, Tagons Toughs, Lutes, Porrima, Elkhorn, Lutes, siddharth, SpaceBucks and all the other helping captains out there.
Couple of weeks later you start buying schematics, without doing the maths. After all, you're a high level player with lots of unused cash on hand. Then, a billion later, you take a big breath and stop buying. You swear to stay away from Wallex and Humanix.
You start selling resources so you could recover the loss. It's either that or continue to sink money into schematics just because you have them. Oh well, it was fun thinking you will have your own, private starbase.
Couple of months later you get bored of hunting, mining, salvaging and cargo runs and fire up your trusty workbook to start adding up some figures. Oh, boy, Coops wasn't kidding! That's a shipload of resources! Naah, not for me... but the itch is there.
Months go by and you start noticing you're about to level up and swear you'll get a starbase for your 185th level. What could go wrong? (famous last words, right?)
So, it really starts: deposit couple of billions in the starbase escrow, sell some fuel in order to finance the resource buying, have a nervous breakdown realizing some resources can be categorizes as unobtainium, swear some more when you redo the math for the hundredth time (fun fact: resources sold in stores will cost you a cool 6.3 billion), but keep on going. What is one more billion after all?
Here you are now, with only some unobtainiums on GBM (by the way, stop hoarding them, daddy needs a new starbase!), down to your last couple of billions and with your deadline passed.
But no worries, the SinkHole will be buit!
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TLDR: do not even think of building a starbase on your own if you don't have at least the named resources and the unobtainiums.
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/LE
Credit go to GBM, Sven, TDK, Tagons Toughs, Lutes, Porrima, Elkhorn, Lutes, siddharth, SpaceBucks and all the other helping captains out there.