Ferr3t wrote:
Don't give up, your conqueror will leave you alone after taking your crystal so take this opportunity to build up your army and economy. Once you have a decent army (5-7 squads) rebel with your troops on your colony and your conqueror won't want to fight your squads and let you go free. Now you can join an alliance in the top 10# and share their squads for protection. Any other questions message me on MSN:
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BTW - It's important that you get all of your resource buildings up to level 5 ASAP, this will give you a MASSIVE advantage while you're building your army.
I've got most of my buildings done, I've got about 3 more to go, getting enough metal is the problem there, even when i get a bonus, i usually only have enough to build one building, i use the rest for troops (ex 5000 for building, 678 for troops). I have no crystal, that was taken the first day I played the moment out of protection. It was like a blood hound on a rabbit trail... lol, but i did expect that, it's the attacks after that with the higher up that kept me down, i play a lot of games, and there is usually a little "courtesy grace" for newbs to give em a fighting chance, the guy finally left me alone, i guess he finally figured out i wasn't worth fighting right now. As far as an alliance, most of the stronger alliances only want high ranking players, the lower ones can't defend against the stronger empires, so i am still looking for a good alliance (maybe something in the middle with a little strength in defense)
Thank all of you for responding to me.