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Raiding:

• The Bashing rule (Yet Again) This has been explained before but a lot of people have trouble. There is even a topic (did you click me before? here i am again!) but with all due respect to bibob I think it's still a little difficult to understand. So here I will try explaining it again in the hopes that it will be helpful... but maybe I'll screw it up even worse :P (read more...)
• Defending against Raiding

  QUESTION A: “What’s a good defence against raids?”

  There is no simple, clear cut answer to this question. There are many factors to consider. What are you being attacked with? How much are you willing to spend? What are your technologies and building capabilities? How much do your mines produce overnight?

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• More on Big Guns - by TKDdans

  1000 gauss does NOT equal 350 plasma in terms of costs. In fact, 350 is more closely approximated to be equal to 1230 gauss (in terms of resource costs).

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• Building Defenses - Use Speedsim to crunch the numbers

  Josh posted this on the Building Defenses Article Lot’s of people have chimed in on the advantages/disadvantages of defenses. Josh sums it up pretty good here…

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• Armor and Shielding

  After every round of battle, your shields will regenerate back to full. Your armor is the “hit points” of your ship, and these do not regenerate during the battle. However, after the battle, any ships that took damage are repaired back to full status.

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• Question: What determines how much resources you would yield from a raid?

  What determines how much resources you would yield from a raid?

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• Question: My Espionage Probes got Destroyed?

  I dont know what just happened, but I sent 5 espionage probes to spy on one guy, then they got destroyed?!?

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• Question: How many rounds to destroy a Large Cargo?

  How many rounds does it take for a small laser to destroy a large cargo? I have a relatively small fleet, but i want to attack someone with low defences without losing my cargos. Or would one bomber destroy 20 in one round, with rapidfire?

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• Raiding other Planets In 3 raids over the past 2 days I have netted 350K resources from 2 different players/planets. This change from colonization to raiding has made me realize I should have started sooner, and I would recommend it to everyone else following this guideline: (read more...)
• Why use Big Guns in your defense.

  Using SpeedSim, it looks like Gauss are better than Plasma. With a 3-1 ratio, they have better firepower and cost less.

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• Fleet Crashing

  I just realised that I do not have anything up here talking about fleet crashing. For many of you, you already know what this is. For some, this is foreign territory.

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• What to do when you're being attacked

  HELP I’M BEING ATTACKED THIS GUY KEEPS ATTACKING ME AND I CANT BUILD ANYTHING I THINK HE IS BASHING WHAT DO I DO CAN I GET HIM BANNED THIS IS SO UNFAIR HELP!!!!!! Is this you?

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• Mobile Attack Base I have heard the phrase “mobile attack base” several times on the oGame forums. A friend of mine recently explained how it works. (read more...)
• Scanning Tactics - Don't give away your planets So I logged on to check oGame and make sure I wasn’t getting attacked or something. I was scanned 5 times (all planets were out in galaxy X). As it appeared in the overview it appeared to me that two different players had scanned me. One from 4:x:x and the other from 5:x:x. (read more...)
• Why is the Espionage Probe attacking me?

  If someone kamikaze’s a probe into your planet (a probe on attack mission) it is because he is creating a debris field so he can clean house later.

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