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Malladine

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That's a good idea actually Iozina, there's no other significant use for your deuterium.
 

Kelemvor

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Someone needs to make a Firefox plugin so it can see how long it will be until the building I'm making is done and it can then give me an alert. And it'd also have to monitor my resource levels and tell me when I get to a certain level so I know I can go make another mine or whatever. That'd be cool.
 

letdown427

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Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
Someone needs to make a Firefox plugin so it can see how long it will be until the building I'm making is done and it can then give me an alert. And it'd also have to monitor my resource levels and tell me when I get to a certain level so I know I can go make another mine or whatever. That'd be cool.

QFTFTWOMGBBQ that would be cool. Hmm, I'll have to look in on how to program a firefox plugin. :( does anyone know off hand what language you have to use or anyhting like that? yes google it i know.... :)

oh, wait,

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1766&application=firefox">https://addons.mozilla.org/extension......fo.php?id=1766&application=firefox</a>

Having said that, that doesn't appear to actually do anything. hmm.
 

Malladine

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Mar 31, 2003
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blah, i'm just gonna save for 6hrs to afford a lvl solar plant, which will give me enough power for 2 more lvls to my c mine and 1 more synthesizer lvl. :frown: :frown:
 

lozina

Lifer
Sep 10, 2001
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Originally posted by: Malladine
Originally posted by: letdown427
Originally posted by: lozina
Does energy technology increase the energy your solar power plants produce?



turk?
It doesn't affect that at all...

aww...

energy is a biatch.. gonna need to wait for crystal to build another solar plant
 

Kelemvor

Lifer
May 23, 2002
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Any wya to change the colors? The Red messages are impossible to read on my monitor because of the background color. I see the "Skins" option under Options but don't know how it works or how I pick a new skin.
 

letdown427

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Jan 3, 2006
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Originally posted by: lozina
Originally posted by: Malladine
Originally posted by: letdown427
Originally posted by: lozina
Does energy technology increase the energy your solar power plants produce?



turk?
It doesn't affect that at all...

aww...

energy is a biatch.. gonna need to wait for crystal to build another solar plant

QFT. 4 hours and I'll be able to afford next level.
 

Kelemvor

Lifer
May 23, 2002
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Originally posted by: letdown427
Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
Someone needs to make a Firefox plugin so it can see how long it will be until the building I'm making is done and it can then give me an alert. And it'd also have to monitor my resource levels and tell me when I get to a certain level so I know I can go make another mine or whatever. That'd be cool.

QFTFTWOMGBBQ that would be cool. Hmm, I'll have to look in on how to program a firefox plugin. :( does anyone know off hand what language you have to use or anyhting like that? yes google it i know.... :)

oh, wait,

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1766&application=firefox"><a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1766&application=firefox">https://addons.mozilla.org/extens.........hp?id=1766&application=firefox</a></a>

Having said that, that doesn't appear to actually do anything. hmm.

Hmm. I installed that and can't tell what it did if anything. Description says it has finishing times for things and I'd be looking for something to tell me how long it will be before I'm able to build my next building so I can just come back later.

Hmm. Oh well.
 

NikPreviousAcct

No Lifer
Aug 15, 2000
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Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
Hmm. I installed that and can't tell what it did if anything. Description says it has finishing times for things and I'd be looking for something to tell me how long it will be before I'm able to build my next building so I can just come back later.

Hmm. Oh well.

I installed the extension, but I can't login to the game in FireFox. I can login in IE, but not FF. :confused:
 

lozina

Lifer
Sep 10, 2001
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Damn the galaxy view is a realy deuterium thief...

I figured I pay 10 deuterium to view my galaxy and I can go investigate the other people in there but everytime I do something on the galaxy to get info about another player and then hit Back to go back to the galaxy view it's not using the map I just paid 10 deuterium for but it's getting a whole new one and paying another 10 ! Man what a waste...

edit: BTW how do I find out someone's score? I have a few players who are red in my system and some of them have a rank and some do not. I'm wondering what the score is of those who are red but do not have a rank so I can see how close my power is to them
 

Snakexor

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Feb 23, 2005
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i played ogame this time almost a year ago in uni 1 and 2, and if you look for the Mara.DIM alliance, who last time i checked, that was what i was in

what you want to do to start off is to get lots of metal, ie build those mines up to level 8 or so....then work on crystal, then duet....duet should be the last thing your worried about until you want to start attacking

there should be something called speed sim on their forums, this simulates a battle based on techs and defending ships and defenses vs. attacking ships

i could post alot more, but i have to go to work


and another thing, if you play cs, or are cal for cs, OGAME IS THE DEVIL IT BROKE UP MY CAL M CLAN >_<
 

NikPreviousAcct

No Lifer
Aug 15, 2000
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Originally posted by: Turkish
Here's the recommended build order:

M is for Metal, K is for Crystal, D is for Deterium and S is for Solar Plant:

S1 M1 M2 S2 M3 M4 S3 K1 K2 S4 M5 D1 S5 M6 K3 S6 D2 D3 S7 K5 D4 S8 D5

This is what I'm doing. I *just* finished building S3 and my energy is at -1. :confused: Is that okay? Will I be able to construct K1 if my energy is at -1? What exactly does having a negative energy output do? Slower resource mining?

Okay, nevermind. I forgot that buildings take time to finish. It just finished. :eek:
 

lozina

Lifer
Sep 10, 2001
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Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: Turkish
Here's the recommended build order:

M is for Metal, K is for Crystal, D is for Deterium and S is for Solar Plant:

S1 M1 M2 S2 M3 M4 S3 K1 K2 S4 M5 D1 S5 M6 K3 S6 D2 D3 S7 K5 D4 S8 D5

This is what I'm doing. I *just* finished building S3 and my energy is at -1. :confused: Is that okay? Will I be able to construct K1 if my energy is at -1? What exactly does having a negative energy output do? Slower resource mining?

Okay, nevermind. I forgot that buildings take time to finish. It just finished. :eek:

That just means it is short of 1 energy in order to power all your buildings at 100%, so it automatically starts cutting off power evenly from all your buildings to make up for the loss. If you look at those dropdowns next to the buildings you can adjust the power if you don't like how it distributed your precious energy...

so for example if you dont have enough power for both your crystal and metal mine it will automatically reduce power to both of them evenly- but maybe you need crystal more than metal? so just use the dropdown to drop how much power goes to the metal until your crystal plant has all the power it needs
 

lozina

Lifer
Sep 10, 2001
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Guys, how do you start colonizing new planets?

In my system and any system I've looked at I see empty rows in the table usually the first few positions and the last few. Then on the bottom of the table it says something like x planets uninhabitet- are those the planets I can colonize? They don't match the number of empty rows i see in the table though, where are they?

also, can only raid people to steal their resources or can you actually take their whole planet too thus removing them from the game?

edit: woohoo, construction begins on my Level 8 power plant!
 

Malladine

Diamond Member
Mar 31, 2003
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Originally posted by: lozina
Guys, how do you start colonizing new planets?

In my system and any system I've looked at I see empty rows in the table usually the first few positions and the last few. Then on the bottom of the table it says something like x planets uninhabitet- are those the planets I can colonize? They don't match the number of empty rows i see in the table though, where are they?

also, can only raid people to steal their resources or can you actually take their whole planet too thus removing them from the game?

edit: woohoo, construction begins on my Level 8 power plant!
Go to the technology page and you'll see colony ship. There are some prereqs, get those then you can colonize! Don't know on the other stuff except you can't take a planet. The only damage you can inflict is destruction of their fleet/defense installations and theft of their on planet resources. Defense installations can be repaired at a 70% chance.
 

Turkish

Lifer
May 26, 2003
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Originally posted by: lozina
Damn the galaxy view is a realy deuterium thief...

I figured I pay 10 deuterium to view my galaxy and I can go investigate the other people in there but everytime I do something on the galaxy to get info about another player and then hit Back to go back to the galaxy view it's not using the map I just paid 10 deuterium for but it's getting a whole new one and paying another 10 ! Man what a waste...

edit: BTW how do I find out someone's score? I have a few players who are red in my system and some of them have a rank and some do not. I'm wondering what the score is of those who are red but do not have a rank so I can see how close my power is to them

i have no clue about points... i think you can see other people's points if they are colored in white and are in the top 1500 players... not sure.
 

Turkish

Lifer
May 26, 2003
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Originally posted by: Malladine
Originally posted by: lozina
Guys, how do you start colonizing new planets?

In my system and any system I've looked at I see empty rows in the table usually the first few positions and the last few. Then on the bottom of the table it says something like x planets uninhabitet- are those the planets I can colonize? They don't match the number of empty rows i see in the table though, where are they?

also, can only raid people to steal their resources or can you actually take their whole planet too thus removing them from the game?

edit: woohoo, construction begins on my Level 8 power plant!
Go to the technology page and you'll see colony ship. There are some prereqs, get those then you can colonize! Don't know on the other stuff except you can't take a planet. The only damage you can inflict is destruction of their fleet/defense installations and theft of their on planet resources. Defense installations can be repaired at a 70% chance.

You cannot take away other's planets :) You may force them to quit the game, and then after a while, their planets will get deleted and you can colonize there.

You need to build a colony ship to colonize, then you can colonize an empty spot but I recommend a planet between 4th and 12th spots as those usually have larger fields, thus more production is possible.