Post by Zensi on Jan 21, 2017 9:44:53 GMT
You gain more by losing less
Sounds simple and stupid enough, but you need to learn to manage your losses. This is particularly important when your ship has reach a point where you mainly get 1 or 2 cups wins. When you are at this level, losses become critical. You can lose a full day's work in one battle.
Lost battles are important to improve your ship, and test your limits. Use losses to figure how to improve, and be better next time you battle. However, when you are trying to climb, you need to be more careful of losses. When gains are this small, you lose cups by either losing the battle against an opponent with a fewer trophy count, or during a defeat defending.
If you have worked on your ship and it can do its job, it should hold its ground against most opponents. You can check your ship, by either letting the battle take its course without manual intervention, or disconnecting for your ship to really fight by itself. When attacking you can protect yourself, by deciding if your opponent is a ship you might win against. Hull size, and weapons can be judge externally. Some people will scan a ship to take a better inventory of crew and weapons, I can’t, since I never research it. The crew and AI will determine how the battle goes, regardless of the weaponry.
As a last resort, you can carry a bridge, which might let you escape without losing. This is not what I recommend when trying to improve your ship, only when trying to keep your cups high for the tournament. If you don’t lose, you won’t get better.
The bridge has another advantage, if a ship tries to escape you might win. This way, it might get some cups to offset the loses you will have. There will always be a ship that can defeat you, so when you aren’t commanding your ship, you will have losses.
Something important is to learn to ride your immunities. It isn’t worthwhile to attack someone, disconnect to get attacked again, and then log back on. Organize your time at the helm, to have stretches of time battling. Otherwise you might find you have enough losses to nullify your wins.
Sounds simple and stupid enough, but you need to learn to manage your losses. This is particularly important when your ship has reach a point where you mainly get 1 or 2 cups wins. When you are at this level, losses become critical. You can lose a full day's work in one battle.
Lost battles are important to improve your ship, and test your limits. Use losses to figure how to improve, and be better next time you battle. However, when you are trying to climb, you need to be more careful of losses. When gains are this small, you lose cups by either losing the battle against an opponent with a fewer trophy count, or during a defeat defending.
If you have worked on your ship and it can do its job, it should hold its ground against most opponents. You can check your ship, by either letting the battle take its course without manual intervention, or disconnecting for your ship to really fight by itself. When attacking you can protect yourself, by deciding if your opponent is a ship you might win against. Hull size, and weapons can be judge externally. Some people will scan a ship to take a better inventory of crew and weapons, I can’t, since I never research it. The crew and AI will determine how the battle goes, regardless of the weaponry.
As a last resort, you can carry a bridge, which might let you escape without losing. This is not what I recommend when trying to improve your ship, only when trying to keep your cups high for the tournament. If you don’t lose, you won’t get better.
The bridge has another advantage, if a ship tries to escape you might win. This way, it might get some cups to offset the loses you will have. There will always be a ship that can defeat you, so when you aren’t commanding your ship, you will have losses.
Something important is to learn to ride your immunities. It isn’t worthwhile to attack someone, disconnect to get attacked again, and then log back on. Organize your time at the helm, to have stretches of time battling. Otherwise you might find you have enough losses to nullify your wins.