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Tip of the Day
#149993 - 03/26/08 06:05 PM (84.65.139.187)
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I have decided to start a "Tip of the Day" thread where I, Shadowmaster or someone else, will give a new tip every day. These tips will be archived on my website after a week or so. I would ask people not to comment on this topic - I'll set up another thread for that and keep this one locked.
The archive is available at http://mattbuck.irongalaxy.com/neveron/tip.html
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Re: Tip of the Day
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#149994 - 03/26/08 06:10 PM (84.65.139.187)
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Tip of the Day #1 - 26/03/08
A trick to save money when repairing move critted vehicles.
So you've just ended a war, and you now have several vehicles which require movement parts, but you can't get hold of those. Instead, wait until 30 nevdays after the vehicle was last in combat. Go to the unit's info page. By the movement crit repair button, there is a button called "change critical status". Click this. Assuming the vehicle is otherwise repaired, you should now be able to decommission it. It will show up in your armoury as a fully functioning vehicle, ready to be commissioned.
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Re: Tip of the Day
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#150007 - 03/27/08 03:15 PM (84.65.139.187)
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Tip of the Day #2 - 27/03/08
Retreating into Enemy Zones
Suppose you are in a war, and your units are cornered - one or more surrounding zones owned by the person you are at war with. You can retreat into his zones. What's more, if there is an active ceasefire between you and your enemy (started after he attacked), retreating into enemy zone and then clicking the Enemy Zone link will send your units home immediately.
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Re: Tip of the Day
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#150016 - 03/28/08 02:45 PM (84.65.139.187)
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Tip of the Day #3 - 28/03/08
Saving Money
Saving money can be a problem for many people, myself included. I see money and I have an urge to spend it. The solution can be to hide your money out of sight. You can transfer money to a claimed soldier on the Finance > Transfer page. Alternatively, you can set it up, using the same page, to send a certain amount to a claimed character every nevday via an allowance. You may get the cash back at any time by setting the soldier with money as your active character, and then using finance > transfer to send the money back to your emperor.
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Re: Tip of the Day
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#150022 - 03/29/08 02:08 PM (84.65.139.187)
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Tip of the Day #4 - 29/03/08
Free IDF Defence
As you may know, IDF is a very powerful tool on the battlefield, as it allows you to fire without a direct line of sight, allowing you to take out enemies before they can fire back. If you are level 1 or above, you can get City IDF Defence on your side. This provides a single IDF-5 shot on 10s to hit against a random enemy, every turn. In low level battles, this can be a decisive advantage. To activate it, click on the red empire level link in the data pane (eg City (2)), and then next to DEFENDER, click spend a class point. City artillery will be active in any zone you control which has buildings.
This does have downsides though. For one, it increases your building costs by 25%, which can be expensive. City artillery can also be destroyed in battle should an enemy spend a turn in sight of your units on the hex 50,50.
Adding the class point is free, but it can cost you to remove it. You get 1 free point removal per nevyear.
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Re: Tip of the Day
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#150055 - 03/31/08 06:40 AM (84.65.139.187)
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Tip of the Day #5 - 30/03/08
Ensuring full productivity
It may seem obvious, but as with real life, for full productivity from your workers, there needs to be full employment and a large enough workforce. You can see how many workers and jobs you have by clicking the Empire tab, then clicking Stats and then Economic stats. It will say something like this:
Commercial Workers: 7,301
Research Workers: 183
Factory Workers: 3,469
Total Workers: 10,955
Total Jobs: 10,954
Employment Rate: 99.99%
This empire is balanced, as you can see. If you have too many workers, then you get unemployment, and, like in real life, those who are unemployed can't pay taxes. If you have too few workers, then workers will leave research to go to factories, and then leave factories to work in commercial buildings. If you don't care about production or research this is fine, but it hurts empires which are production- or research-oriented.
Remember the golden rule. A research facility / factory / commerical building uses all the workers from FOUR residential buildings of the same size, and only 1 in every 4 people will work in your labs/factories/deathcamps.
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Re: Tip of the Day
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#150061 - 03/31/08 03:19 PM (84.65.139.187)
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Tip of the Day #6 - 31/03/08
Massed unit moving
If you have lots of units to move, use either View Units by Type, or by zone - you will be allowed to check boxes to choose which units to move rather than only single unit formations.
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Re: Tip of the Day
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#150071 - 04/01/08 01:39 PM (84.65.139.187)
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Tip of the Day #7 - 01/04/08
Treasure Points
If you want to speed up your research, try spending some time in the FFA tournament (arenas tab > tournaments). When you kill an enemy, there is a chance that you will get a Treasure Point (TP). These can be traded in on your research > facilities page for 0.2rp per level of your empire (0.1rp each at lvl0). At low levels, these can cut weeks off your research.
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Re: Tip of the Day
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#150079 - 04/02/08 05:13 PM (84.65.139.187)
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Tip of the Day #8 - 02/04/08
Speak up, make friends
In Neveron, it is hard to get somewhere on your own. Sure, you own your empire, and on n00b island, you can make a good go of it on your own. But as soon as you get past level 2, you'll need to find a faction. The best way to do this is to speak to people - in factionmail, in these forums, in IRC chat. Talk to people and you'll find that a lot of people are willing to help newbies out with cheap vehicles, advice and places in a faction where you can grow, safe in the knowledge that someone's got your back.
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Re: Tip of the Day
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#150089 - 04/03/08 03:34 PM (84.65.139.187)
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Tip of the Day #9 - 03/04/08
Training with geckos
Every soldier you recruit has what are called "skill multipliers" - that is, what chance he has of getting better skilled in some certain category. However, not all soldiers have the same multiplier. To weed out the crap ones, buy some geckos and train them for about 10 skillchecks. Then decommission and fire any soldiers which don't reach 5 gun. The rest, put into training some more, then decommission the geckos and put your ready-skilled soldiers into more useful towers/vehicles.
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Re: Tip of the Day
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#150094 - 04/04/08 05:41 PM (84.65.139.187)
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Tip of the Day #10 - 04/04/08
Zone ownership
Owning land costs money on Neveron - a minimum of $100 per nevday per zone covers things like cutting the grass and keeping the wobbie population under control. How much money you are paying per zone is dependant on your empire level and how much population you have per zone. The higher your level and the less population per zone, the more it costs you. So if you're losing money from land costs, unclaim some zones. Alternatively, research Land Management - this decreases your land costs by a certain % (down to $100 per zone minimum).
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Re: Tip of the Day
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#150104 - 04/05/08 05:46 PM (84.65.139.187)
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Tip of the Day #11 - 05/04/08
Updating your battlevalue
You may have found that you commission a vehicle and your battlevalue stays the same. This is because BV only updates when you log in to your empire. So log out and in and you'll see the BV change, and any relevant level changes. You will also need to log out and in before things such as class points take effect.
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Re: Tip of the Day
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#150118 - 04/06/08 05:49 PM (84.65.139.187)
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Tip of the Day #12 - 06/04/08
Defences for terrain
Another thing which may seem obvious, but you can't plan a defence unless you know what terrain you'll be fighting in. For instance, it's no good having jeeps if there's so much rough terrain that they can't actually move. Go to the map, click the zone in question, click terrain and view the terrain (you may need to create terrain first). Flat plains are suited to LRM vehicles, woods to close range stuff.
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Re: Tip of the Day
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#150125 - 04/07/08 12:54 PM (84.65.139.187)
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Tip of the Day #13 - 07/04/08
Flagging Zones
As you grow, you will acquire more and more zones spread out across the face of Neveron. To help keep track of the important ones, you can flag them by going to Land/Build > Flags. These zones will always show in dropdowns for transit of units and parts.
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Re: Tip of the Day
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#150133 - 04/08/08 02:17 PM (84.68.45.155)
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Tip of the Day #14 - 08/04/08
Leveling Up
Neveron is about war, so it's generally a good idea to make sure you don't level up accidentally - for example, during war, by training, etc. Levelling up means people from that level can attack you (until you level down again), so it's important to be ready. That means being able to defend yourself - have some vehicles ready in your armoury to make the push into the next level, don't do it blind.
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Re: Tip of the Day
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#150166 - 04/09/08 04:10 PM (84.68.45.155)
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Tip of the Day #15 - 09/04/08
Login security
First off, be sure you know what your login/password is - there is no password recovery system on Neveron, if you lose your login/password you will not be able to log in. Secondly, do not give out your login/password. No administrator will ever ask you for your login/password - they don't need it. The administrators define the empire's owner as whoever has the emperor login - if you give out your login, you are essentially giving away your empire, and you are unlikely to get it back if someone changes the password on you.
[Note - Players will ask for your login to add you as a 'secondary' login to thier empires if you are a trusted player. DP Pools is another place that a login would be needed. In both these cases tho, only the login is needed, NOT the PASSWORD! - ShadowMasterCM]
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Re: Tip of the Day
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#150175 - 04/10/08 12:54 PM (84.68.45.155)
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Tip of the Day #16 - 10/04/08
Bugs
Neveron is not perfect - there are problems with the code, bugs and the like. You may well be doing something and find one which does something you don't expect - for instance moving mechs instantly. In these circumstances, it is important to be circumspect in your actions. First of all, do NOT use bugs to gain an advantage. If something happens by accident, fine, but using that bug in a manner which circumvents the normal operating of a system is against the rules. For instance, if you found that your mechs moved instantly when returning from a repair bay, you should not use that to allow you to attack before they would have returned normally.
Most importantly, if you find a bug, send a help ticket about it (Help > submit new ticket). Include exactly what you were doing at the time so that the admins can trace the bug.
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Re: Tip of the Day
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#150179 - 04/11/08 06:29 PM (84.68.45.155)
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Tip of the Day #17 - 11/04/08
Arenas
Betting on arenas can win you quite a bit of money. The admins carried out a test a while ago, and found that by betting randomly, you on average get back more than you spend. Knowing which empire to bet on can be quite tricky, but remember that the mechs will be roughly even on BV, and so which mech is better suited to the terrain may well swing it. For instance, a jump mech will do a lot better in a foresty map than a walker will, but will likely do less well on the flat because it has less weapons and its manoeuveurability counts for less.
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Re: Tip of the Day
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#150180 - 04/12/08 01:30 PM (84.68.45.155)
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Tip of the Day #18 - 12/04/08
Mechs in defence
Mechs are offensive units, not defensive. It is best if you do not leave your mechs in a city to defend it, as the mech AI is very poor. Mechs are fine if you pilot them, but left unpiloted, they are likely to die.
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Re: Tip of the Day
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#150200 - 04/14/08 04:40 AM (128.243.220.22)
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Tip of the Day #19 - 13/04/08
Vehicle repairs
Some vehicle crits can be repaired just by using cash - locked turrets and weapon crits for instance. These do not use parts. Crits to a vehicle's engine are not repairable - the vehicle will be 0/0 move until it dies. All other crits can only be repaired at a repair bay. But beware, if you need parts to repair a vehicle, you need to say what vehicle you need parts for. Movement repair parts are weight specific - you cannot repair a 35t track with a 40t track.
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Re: Tip of the Day
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#150213 - 04/14/08 03:50 PM (128.243.220.22)
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Tip of the Day #20 - 14/04/08
Cash on hand
It is always a good idea to keep a good amount of cash on hand to deal with emergencies - namely, mopping up after wars, rebuilding infra, buying replacement BV, etc. Always keep 50mil on hand, preferably several hundred mil, increasing as your level rises. Remember that each level you go up doubles the size, and thus the costs of rebuilding totally.
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Re: Tip of the Day
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#150222 - 04/15/08 11:23 AM (128.243.253.217)
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Tip of the Day #21 - 15/04/08
Setting your time
Neveron's servers are located in Arizona, and so by default, the times you see on CF pages and the like will be in Mountain Standard Time. To change your time, go to War Room -> Wars. Scroll down to the Cease Fire Options section and click where it says Click to adjust. Calculate your time difference, put it in and click change.
Remember, Arizona does not have daylight savings time, so whenever your clocks change, you'll need to change the time difference. Unless you live in Arizona.
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Re: Tip of the Day
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#150259 - 04/16/08 01:19 PM (128.243.220.21)
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Tip of the Day #22 - 16/04/08
Turrets
Not all vehicles have turrets. This does not always matter - the HNT-0A for instance is one of the most used tanks on Neveron, yet has no turret. However, on towers, turrets are pretty much a necessity as they cannot turn to face your enemy. Putting weapons on the front of a stationary object means people will just attack from the back.
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Re: Tip of the Day
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#150271 - 04/17/08 12:15 PM (128.243.220.22)
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Tip of the Day #23 - 17/04/08
Range Zero
When in battle you go to range zero, a slightly strange thing happens. If you try and attack the unit in the same hex as you, the fire arc it comes up as being in is random, but repeated clicking on the button will generate a new random arc, so if you have only weapons on the front of your tank, keep clicking and it'll eventually show up as fire arc F. However, all damage goes to the front side of the units.
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Re: Tip of the Day
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#150284 - 04/18/08 12:36 PM (128.243.220.42)
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Tip of the Day #24 - 18/04/08
ABR
If you are in battle but at a stalemate where you have overwhelming firepower but either can't get to or can't find the enemy, exit battle. If no one is active in a battle for 30mins, it will resolve automatically by a process known as Automatic Battle Resolution, which doesn't take account of things like terrain. You can see the idle time of a battle on the War Room > Battles page.
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Re: Tip of the Day
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#150291 - 04/19/08 03:12 PM (128.243.220.42)
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Tip of the Day #25 - 19/04/08
The importance of sensors
It's obvious, but you can't shoot what you can't see. Most vehicles don't have sensors, and those that do usually have rubbish ones. It's important to have sensors on your side on the battlefield, as even 1 stealth tower could disguise an entire army if you're relying on your soldiers' eyes to see things. A light mech is usually good enough at low level, but as you get higher level, you'll need heavier mechs with your units, or specialised sensor units.
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#150293 - 04/20/08 03:30 AM (128.243.220.42)
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Tip of the Day #26 - 20/04/08
Extortion
Extortion is a valid tactic on Neveron - saying "pay me or I'll attack you" is fine. However, you CANNOT ask for DP (donation points) as a form of payment. You may ask for nevcash, and if your enemy OFFERS to pay in DP, that's fine. But you may never demand DP. If you do, you can be reported to the admins and punished appropriately. Demanding DP is essentially extortion in real life, since you're paying in US$ rather than nev$.
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#150311 - 04/22/08 03:29 AM (128.243.220.21)
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Tip of the Day #27 - 21/04/08
DP Buildables on Newbie Island
A word of warning - when on Newbie Island, using DP to increase zone size is essentially pointless. As soon as you join a real faction, all your holdings on the island will be removed and you will be given some new cities by your new FL, making your expenditure on increasing those buildables a waste of money. In general, it is best to save increasing buildable zone size until you are level 7 at least.
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#150317 - 04/22/08 01:46 PM (128.243.220.41)
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Tip of the Day #28 - 22/04/08
TWR-15710
It is always important to have sensors, and an easy and cheap way to get them in defence is to build TWR-15710s, commonly known as NevTowers. These have decent sensors and stealth/ECM making them hard for enemies to spot, and good at hiding your own units. You first need 12 vehicle internal structure, then go to Land/Build > Towers and build however many you want. You then go to the Armoury > Towers page and ship them to whatever zone needs them before commissioning and placing on the map. Once placed you will not be able to move them, so do it wisely. Note that since these units have no weapons, you may as well use a skill 8 soldier for them.
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#150321 - 04/23/08 11:42 AM (128.243.220.22)
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Tip of the Day #29 - 23/04/08
Buying Zones by SOI
If you find yourself hemmed in by other empires, it can be possible to buy zones. If you have a big enough city, you will have "sphere of influence" over the region around your zone, with size depending on just how big your city and any others nearby are. You can see this on the map by clicking SOI in the top right. You can buy any zone which says SOI in a yellow box. To do so, click that zone, click Terrain, and click buy zone. This costs $1mil, and will give the empire you bought the zone from $500k.
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