marauders...

OP 02/04/2007 · 01:49 PM #1

I dont know about other marauders, but I have always observed the unwritten rule that we do not attack other members of our race (unless they have a big unplundered planet count) because you know that hitting another maru wouldnt result in your obtaining colonies of value (because that maru prob already plundered them). As a fairly low powered race, I would have thought we would be just hitting the others and not preying on eachother? Thoughts?

T Theworldunited

07/04/2007 · 06:09 PM #28

nahhh straight argi is the way forward :P

someone once told me that 2 marus fighting is like 2 ret**ds fist fighting in a dark room :P its hard to win if ure both evenly stacked but meh if ure desperate for some borders pyth spam on careful makes short work of other marus :)

T Travvivian

06/04/2007 · 04:18 AM #27

Bah. Straight plunder for Maru SUCKS.

I have always been an Agri/Plunder Maru. The system works wonders.

A Archaeoptyrex

04/04/2007 · 05:55 AM #26

build rate is pathetic :(

U Ugolino

04/04/2007 · 12:18 AM #25

The average plunder maru money making stradegy: hide in np or dp until you scope out a good lookin target, jump out and smack em, then hit everyone around them until you either plunder down, or get more dp.
Now im not saying that maru cant be played at a high pr, but its pretty hard to pull that off above 10 mil. Ive had my share of high pr fighting (not just pyth spamming up to 100 mil for 10 minutes, real fighting) back in 04-05 and its very possible and very fun if you do it right. but just cause XPC says they are low power race doesnt mean he needs mental help lol, hes right.

but anways, to the original point, i try to my best to avoid hitting fellow marus ^_^ unless its a counter or im bored, or they jumped in planet count.... lol

M Maraudian

03/04/2007 · 10:34 PM #24

a pure marauder fleet will usually get wiped out easily if it comes across the wrong ships ( mainly ranged ships such as thor / garu )

so unless its a spam its very risky to go to high power with just pure marauder ships

H Hiigarans

03/04/2007 · 09:42 PM #23

lmao, 100mil pr of Marauder, and u complain on suking ur $. dude, u should know that 100mil pr of Marauder fleet is really a threat to those who stay up there. i dont think Marauder will build too much Strafez

i wonder how much fleet upkeep for Terran n Miner at 100mil pr if they dont use any Strafez LOL

M Maraudian

03/04/2007 · 06:20 PM #22

* points out marauder are a hunting / fighting race

meaning they rarely go high pr and only do so either to stalk something juicy , or personal reasons such as fun , someone you dont like , UW`s , claiming turf and so on

X XPilotCoronaOP

03/04/2007 · 12:06 PM #21

High power trips isnt the same as staying at 10 million power bobbing up and down there.

A Anfit

03/04/2007 · 11:34 AM #20

the problem with marus and "high pr" is that on RT and ultra you earn your money while lurking in dp and milking your planets. that way empire`s have way more money - or rather most of them have, plundering races such as marus can get little money that way (you only till your pop gets there so you can plunder)
on slower servers everybody has so earn as they go. in result you get lower "Total Turns Used per Each Battle" ratio, lower PRs and ... marus jumping a bit higher...
there`s more to that but my hands got cold and i`m tired

hell, will you ever stop thinking about RT and turn-based as of the same game? its not. balance sets differently!

T Travvivian

03/04/2007 · 09:46 AM #19

If you can`t afford to take some trips into high PR orbit, you are not doing something right economically.

T TheShadow

03/04/2007 · 07:23 AM #18

Humm Marauder can be eithere a low power of high power race you choose.

Z Zenith

03/04/2007 · 05:10 AM #17

Yet here I am.

X XPilotCoronaOP

03/04/2007 · 04:23 AM #16

Do you see marauders above 1 million power often? No. Therefore, it is not a high powered race. I am speaking of RT, just so u know. I am NOT saying Marauder is a bad race, I am one I love the ships they work well but its not a high power high income race. I have gone up to 100 mil as a marauder, and it sucked pretty hard on my cash (and took a while to get back). Do not get power level and ship power confused. Although marauder ships are cheap, we still dont go very high because we only have a couple of large ships (pyth, angel). I dont understand how this could be denied, marauders stay low 90% of the time on RT, and rarely do you see one in the 10 millions. Ship power does not = average race power/income level. Now what I said origionally was considering the fact that we rarely have good planets and we all have the common goal of stealing other peoples clusters, plundering em, and making them cry why isnt there more of a friendly attitude towards eachother? Maybe im just too nice towards other marus.

P pWn3dN3wb13

03/04/2007 · 01:04 AM #15

some people play 5 races on the different servers and don`t actually have their OWN race

M Megalodon

02/04/2007 · 10:57 PM #14

DMM..You need to learn to play your own race

D DazedAndConfused

02/04/2007 · 10:39 PM #13

OMG lol.... maru is very strong race go see caouncler about ur mental health

M Maraudian

02/04/2007 · 09:33 PM #12

its not really the race that this goes for , its more the player

if the player is an active good fighter , pretty much everyone would avoid him/her

if its a low inactive not very good fighter , even other maru`s would have a bite

T Travvivian

02/04/2007 · 08:54 PM #11

I laughed when I read the line "Low Powered".

And BTW, I`ve never had ANY compunctions against smacking a fellow Maru. =]

P pWn3dN3wb13

02/04/2007 · 08:26 PM #10

agri marauder can make more money than commercial viral+ cheap and strong ships=powerful race. But playing that is not for newbies(not that they will climb to 100 mil PR XD)

S species382

02/04/2007 · 08:12 PM #9

"Maru ships are the cheapest in the game"

just want to mention the "viral upkeep problem" once in a while....

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