Valhalla
2008-12-03 |  | Marauder advice |  |
What is the best method for Marauders to make income?
Any advice on how to play the maru?
I cant find a guide online (have found multiple guides for every other race ^^) |
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Imagine{A{Cool{Name
99+ day(s) ago | Have fun capturing 3 ferts and a spaz when you are just starting. I have explored over 2 thousand planets in my time here and haven`t even came across a spaz yet. Nor have I captured one in battle. It may sound fun telling a marauder to go out and get 3 ferts and a spaz but be realistic it ain`t gonna happen over night. |
EvilAbadayos
99+ day(s) ago | forgot to add...all of this is for active servers with higher food cost. Mainly aimed at RT and not TB servers |
EvilAbadayos
99+ day(s) ago | disadvantages continued:
You don`t make as much after a UW goes off with the clusters/cores up for grabs:
not true! hoard your colonies and make a C2/ C3. Keep as long as you want then plunder. Whilst keeping it have enough pop for the land then the rest to agri and make money that way. You can plunder it as it is or pop it up with your 0 housing infra and make a little...but not worth it for the ore cost.
There are a few other things I could say that proves agri is better than plunder but I will finish off by saying this:
An agri maru can have a base PR of 4.1k PR and have the following:
1 spaz
3 ferts total 8k+ land.
Build 1 pike and get your borders from a newbie at 6k pr. Then repop and re-agri the ferts. A perfect csolution for when summer kicks in and you can`t play due to work/schooling. Sure plunder works too...but why corral yourself into that were agri is much more flexable and in my opinion more enjoyable.
Get ferts, make gordos and make fat. or get lusters and get fat that way. or just make food off of a single fert in NP and get money whilst you research cos your nets too dodgy to risk battling.
SO MANY OPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE FOR AGRI MARUS!!!
Have fun and I will enjoy killing you on the field |
EvilAbadayos
99+ day(s) ago | you forgot to mention the down side of plunder maru income styles:
Inability to support high PR fleets over hundreds of turns to over 20 mill PR.
Sure most of you wouldn`t go that high but it IS something to consider. Every turn you spend you are loosing money. EVERY TURN. You only gain money for those 5 turns you invest to plunder a colony.
Now factor in food cost to support the population as you grow it (even if it`s self made, it could be sold on the market for pure profit remember!). now factor in the turns you need to invest to grow it. Sure these turns could be spent at base PR with zero upkeep, but realistically if you take being maru seriously you WANT fleet in DP. If you need to ask why then DON`T waste your time going Marauder. It really is that simple.
now for agri maru here are the perks and the disadvantages (many of which can be removed which I will explain):
You have a PER TURN INCOME. Every turn you use you will make some form of profit at base PR. You can make money even when your at 200 mill PR if your big enough (just ask Opus Dei).
You have plunder as a back up income source! Invest ZERO infra into housing...go pure agri. This is were the back up income comes in. If you hit a guard empire or taxer and take some nice larges/clusters with millions of population. DONT keep it! Kill it! You make roughly 850 MILLION credits per 1 mill population. Not bad when just out fighting. Sure plunder marus get this too...but chances are the taxer has high infra than you anyways so being plunder with pure housing infra researched is a WASTE!!! Better off using it as a secondary income to agri.
Disadvantage:
Higher base PR. way to solve? Kill all agri buildings if needed. you make enough to buy more ore after your done dropping PR.
Market reliant: who cares? you make a per turn income effectivly anyways. just don`t sell when price is low, when high then sell
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Om3gaBlack
99+ day(s) ago | Plunder maru is the only way to go for me =P
You can make cash very easily this way, even in the midst of being out battling... (this also helps you win battles much more easily as you`ll have like a base pr of nothing :P lol) =] usually more than enough to support yourself... unless you`re planning to try and get to the very top in the pr rankings, lol =P |
Imagine{A{Cool{Name
99+ day(s) ago | Why not split it half and half between industry and agriculture? You can play both aspects of the market if food is too low. You can meet the demand for goods of your population when building up a colony to plunder it giving you a little added turn income and with the food you can feed them. No need to buy Raw Materials because you will produce what you need. |
DrunkenMasters
99+ day(s) ago | Food @2 you don`t really need a fert... |
EvilAbadayos
99+ day(s) ago | housing mostly, though 10 levels in agri helps if you plan on getting a U Fert as a homeworld to make your own food |
Valhalla
99+ day(s) ago | If you "go plunder", where would you focus your infra research? |
DrunkenMasters
99+ day(s) ago | lol don`t go agri on fast :P You will give up fast enough, food @2 rofl. Steady income = CG on fast. But I`d always go plunder on fast. Way easier. |
OpusDei
99+ day(s) ago | i`m M. i sell Food. its good as long as you have people like Sumarian around :) |
EvilAbadayos
99+ day(s) ago | Maru is an easy race top play...IF you enjoy playing by the skin of your teeth |
Islander
Game-Admin
99+ day(s) ago | Go agri on fast, Food will jump soon, don`t worry =) |
Sol
99+ day(s) ago | Marauder is an uncommon race because it is hard to play
and people are lazy :P |
keltikelti
99+ day(s) ago | honestly valhalla if agri so so low and CG`s are in short supply .. then Cg`s are just as good an income as food .. aside from the fact that u can get ferts.. but u.larges have more land ... |
Valhalla
99+ day(s) ago | OMG I can see only one other Marauder on Fast! Is this race not preferred for a reason? |
Valhalla
99+ day(s) ago | I am on fast. Funny you say that, juggalokillaz, I like to fight AND have a steady income. On fast, agri is kind of a bust right now, food market has been at 2 or 3 for eons, I am thinking maybe housing & plunder might be better. |
juggalokillaz
99+ day(s) ago | depends on what u like to do. if ur a fighter u can just fight all the time by researchin housing and doing the plunder method. if you like to have steady income then go wit agri. |
EvilLoof
99+ day(s) ago | plunder from slow to fast, probably agri on ultra definetely on rt. |
Gex
99+ day(s) ago | what speed you on? if its RT shoot me a pm |
