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Captain Foxy
2nd Rear Admiral
Joined: April 03, 2005
Posts: 8
|  Posted: 2009-01-07 07:37
Hi!
I was really happy this morning cus once again ive made it to 2nd rear admiral ... again cause for about the 6th time i fell back to commander ... and now, again HUGE prestige losses due to getting blown up by huge ships or that autopilot piloting me into planets and such ... im getting realy frustrated and i dont understand why the VERY VERY extreeme prestige loss is necesarry or is it just a bug im experiencing? I keep loosing my work of hours within seconds and its just no fun to allways begin where you started the day before or even further back!
I mean, its hard enought to get Pres. (not sure if its just me but I get pres. so slowly i can count the numbers behind the decimal go 0.1 - 0.2 i mean what the hell? I loose like 50 pres or more when i die and it goes up 0.1?
PLEASE help me this realy is no fun ... i tryed repairing people till i went up to 2nd rear and then BAM died and again no new ship for me ... im realy kind of stuck in there cus the ships i can get are too small and the pres loss too steep ... this game would be so cool with a 50% reduced penalty!
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Purple
Fleet Admiral
Joined: March 17, 2007
Posts: 67
From: Boston, USA
| Posted: 2009-01-07 09:06
Well I can tell you that you don't have a bug. 50 pres loss is a very small amount. When I die in a dread I lose about 300-400 pres (correct me if I'm wrong thats just an estimate) my advice to you would be to continue supping....try to stay away from battles if you don't know how to fly properly fly in them....and if there are some small AI around like frigates or maybe even destroyers get a combat ship and attack them. The pres gain from killing AI is very high (maybe to high) so that will help you. Other then that all I can say is make good judgements when you jump into a fight and try to fly around the perimeter of the fight rather than in the middle (because if a dread blows up and your in a small ship the splash will probably kill you)
hope this helps...if not then good luck 
P.S. When you supp go for dreads or stations first they take a long time to repair and give excellent pres especially when they have hull damage.
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Alien Mastermind
Grand Admiral
Pitch Black
Joined: January 20, 2003
Posts: 242
From: Toronto
| Posted: 2009-01-07 09:31
Repair ships
Build planets
Don't duel a dread with your dessie...
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0stego
Fleet Admiral
United Armed Corps
Joined: October 04, 2008
Posts: 153
From: Sol System, Earth, Canada, AB.
| Posted: 2009-01-07 09:34
Build, Supply, fight small pirate vessels and stay away from huge battles you can't win. Or find a fleet (UAC is recruiting!) or friends to go into battle with.
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Meko
Grand Admiral
Joined: March 03, 2004
Posts: 1956
From: Vancouver
| Posted: 2009-01-07 12:06
prestige loss is suppost to hurt. wheres the incentive to keep your ship alive otherwise?
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Deltabacon
Fleet Admiral
Joined: August 17, 2007
Posts: 395
From: Liverpool, Great Britain
| Posted: 2009-01-07 12:21
Expert tip, you hate losing 50 pres? be glad you arent Admiral.
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Jamesbond
Grand Admiral
Galactic Navy
Joined: February 05, 2003
Posts: 146
From: Venice Florida
| Posted: 2009-01-07 12:28
Lol be glad your not a Fleet Admiral when you loose a station you loose over 400+ pres.
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SoL Badguy *Monster Energy*
Grand Admiral
Joined: November 03, 2007
Posts: 42
From: Romania, Craiova
| Posted: 2009-01-07 12:32
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On 2009-01-07 12:28, Jamesbond wrote:
Lol be glad your not a Fleet Admiral when you loose a station you loose over 400+ pres.
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Amen to that.
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Leonide
Grand Admiral
Templar Knights
Joined: October 01, 2005
Posts: 1553
From: Newport News, Virginia
| Posted: 2009-01-07 12:38
same here, where Torpedo cruisers cost almost 200 pres.
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MasterChiefAcid
Cadet
Joined: April 29, 2006
Posts: 5
| Posted: 2009-01-07 13:15
Not to lessen the loss, but also with a station/dread you easily make that prestige back quite quickly =P
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Captain Foxy
2nd Rear Admiral
Joined: April 03, 2005
Posts: 8
| Posted: 2009-01-07 14:04
Indeed and also u dont die so much like u do with the small ships ... i think it sucks that the prestige loss is so high ... it makes a otherwise nice game boring cause its only for the hardcore not casual players ... since if ure not realy good at this it seems u loose more than u gain in terms of xp...
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BackSlash
Marshal
Galactic Navy
Joined: March 23, 2003
Posts: 11183
From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2009-01-07 14:16
Prestige loss is very low as it is. You are easily able to gain what you lose from several deaths.
I'm afraid we're not going to dumb down the game so that players can play without fear of dying.
They key here is to learn from your death, and get better to avoid it.
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deathblave
Marshal
Joined: October 10, 2007
Posts: 268
| Posted: 2009-01-07 15:00
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On 2009-01-07 12:32, Fatal SoL Badguy wrote:
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On 2009-01-07 12:28, Jamesbond wrote:
Lol be glad your not a Fleet Admiral when you loose a station you loose over 400+ pres.
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Amen to that.
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amen to that
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codenemesis
Admiral
Joined: June 10, 2007
Posts: 185
| Posted: 2009-01-07 15:53
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On 2009-01-07 12:28, Jamesbond wrote:
Lol be glad your not a Fleet Admiral when you loose a station you loose over 400+ pres.
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I thought it was 1k+ ?
But yes, go for some of the above tips, at this point, avoid combat unless it's with AI and don't follow dreads into combat, sometimes it's helpful to just sit out in space and let them come to you.
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Stevefin
Fleet Admiral
Joined: March 13, 2007
Posts: 35
| Posted: 2009-01-08 04:25
2nd and 1st rear admrial is when pres loss worrys become non existant 
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