I'm researching how to "ride the build queue" to increase...

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1885 days, 3 hours, 49 minutes ago

singularity

I'm researching how to "ride the build queue" to increase...

I'm researching how to "ride the build queue" to increase ship production after the ship limit.

Can anyone tell me how fast the queue moves around turn 30/50/70/90 etc?

How far ahead, in planet IDs, is good to build a SB?

Other than seeing which SBs of yours actually do a build, does anyone have any other ways to measure its speed?

1885 days, 3 hours, 6 minutes ago

RE: I'm researching how to "ride the build queue" to increase...

after the shiplimit the queue can moves once or two from planet 1 to 500 till end of the game.

1885 days, 3 hours, 6 minutes ago

RE: I'm researching how to "ride the build queue" to increase...

It all depends on how fast ships are destroyed in the game.
There are games in which you have lots of explosions every turn, thus the queue could potentially move very fast. Then there are games in which the queue doesn't move a bit in 50 turns.
It also depends on the tactic of the player(s) that destroy(s) the most ships.
If he/they build every free slot via their PBPs then the normal queue won't move at all.

Judging the queue speed can be done by closely monitoring explosion messages and checking the scoreboard stats. You have to set explosions/new ships/less ships/new PBPs/less pbps into relationship and guess who built a ship and if it was done via PBPs or not.

1884 days, 22 hours, 35 minutes ago

RE: I'm researching how to "ride the build queue" to increase...

surfing the queue is more about having the biggest and best available ship in the SB that is going to build a non-pbp ship (and building more SB's ahead of the ship queue). For the average player it is about keeping a ship ready to be built at every SB and going out and killing more PBP's than you lose.

1884 days, 21 hours, 33 minutes ago

RE: I'm researching how to "ride the build queue" to increase...

A game develops its own rhythym, you have to figure out that rhythym. I'm in a game now where the queue just hit 4 turns ago and it's sailed through 200 planets. I've been in other games where the queue hits and it only moves 200 planets in the whole rest of the game.

1883 days, 22 hours, 40 minutes ago

donq

RE: I'm researching how to "ride the build queue" to increase...

Yes, the more supply sergeants in your game, the less the queue will move.

1883 days, 22 hours, 17 minutes ago

RE: I'm researching how to "ride the build queue" to increase...

if your economic, tactical and strategic situation allows it, it's best to block the queue, get any new ship build and deny it to your enemies.