Fleet / Resource Saving
Fleet Saving is the act of sending your ships and resources on missions for set periods of time in order to protect them from attack while you are not actively playing the game. This could be while you are sleeping, at work, or any other time you are away from the game for an extended period of time.
The term Resource Saving generally refers to the same technique, but means adding your resources to the equation.
This technique is an important part of Starfleet Commander, unless one is in Diplomacy Mode or Vacation Mode. If you are not protected by either of these modes, you are open to attack at any time, and eventually someone will destroy your ships and plunder your resources.
One important thing to keep in mind is that you should always have enough cargo space to hold all of your resources during a fleet save, in order to leave as little as possible on your planet while you are away. So make sure you have enough Atlas Class, Hercules Class and Dionysus Class to hold all of your precious resources.
Fleet / Resource Saving - Long Duration
There are 4 basic techniques used to save your fleet / resources:
- Send your fleet and reso
- Find an inactive player with (i) or (I) next to their name. Use an espionage mission to make sure they don't have any ships or defenses at the target planet.
- You cannot send resources with an attack mission, so this method will only save your ships. If using this method for your ships, you will probably want to use one of the other methods above to save your resources.
- Keep in mind there is a a possibility, however unlikely, that the inactive player will come online while your attack is en route.
Fleet / Resource Saving - Attack Avoidance
A variation of any of these methods is a way to avoid losses if you are actually online at the time of the attack. You can select a harvest, deploy or transport mission and select all your ships and as much resources as you can carry and execute the mission moments before the attacking fleet arrives. After the attack is over, you can recall the fleet. If you do a harvest mission to your own planet, and the attacker has timed poorly, you can pick up resources left when his ships hit your defences.
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