Wow...Im on a roll. 16 planets in one chain and at least 3 more still to come. This is fun...

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Its been the accepted practice for 3 years, it ain't about to stop cause you disapprove... (not trying to start an argument, just stating a fact )

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Skylords Universe

RoS.. please... give him a break. You're good at the game, we're yet to see if he is. Just be content that he's a newb and you're not.

SkyLark, as for keeping the planets, there are reasons for and against.

For

* You gain planets, which means more production of the resources you need/want
* The extra planets make you harder to kill as attackers would have to waste more time and resources on defeating you


Against

* The planets could belong to an active player who will most likely have stored the coords and could just come back to retake the planets at a later date. This means you have wasted resources in capture and also lost resources on what you have produced between the time you captured the planet and the time it is recaptured.
* The planets will all be chained together, just like you found them. So if someone captures one, they are likely to find them all using the nearby function. This means you could lose a lot of planets in a very short space of time and could possibly be defeated. It's one of the problems I have with the new Newbie Arena.

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So as you can (hopefully) see, it is both good and bad to keep the planets. If you're real desperate for resources and low on planets it can be good to keep them. But as a long term survival strategy, it's a bad idea. Even the best defender on the game can't keep hold of every planet they capture, not even Smartfox could do that.

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you catch a bit o proffessor-itis to?

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Hope planet 11Heavens Call has been captured by Eragon ShadeSlayre
AGUX 2 has been defeated by Eragon ShadeSlayre.
15:38:36 | shaphan planet 00 ROCKY 00 4s has been captured by Eragon ShadeSlayre, Apocalypse
Eragon ShadeSlayre 1,068,812

"There are 11,390 planets in the SkyLords Universe."

That's hardly rare. Rare is when the planet level gets down to around 8000 (anyone remember those times? yeez).

You're just having trouble finding planets because you're in the newbie arena.

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Make your move, reindeer games.

Btw there are at least 11k planets in the universe...
Many players have a great surplus of planets and keeping ones from other active players is jsut a waste of planet numbers and resources

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Founder and Lord Admiral of The Legendary Swarm.

Go For It.

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That logically does not work.

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Founder and Lord Admiral of The Legendary Swarm.

Go For It.

chill out skylark... not every conversation has to result in u yellin and insulting ppl

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And when you join the real arena 15 extra planets drop in for us, there is no shortage. I have coords to literally a thousand planets at least.

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Founder and Lord Admiral of The Legendary Swarm.

Go For It.

Same, there's no shortage of coords around, but it comes down to the production points the planet has and the placement of the planet, there are many factors involved in choosing what planets to keep. Would you keep a planet in a regularly probed area such as +:+:+ or a 9pp planet when you could have a 16pp planet? Or would you keep several planets that you found off each others nearby so that you had them in a chain?

Most players, even if they don't have full planets, tend to obliterate the planets that have low pp. I know that I don't keep any planet unless it's a x14 or higher and 4k parsecs from any of my other planets, this way I know that if one planet is taken, the rest of mine are safe.

It comes down to tactical defence, safety and economies of scale when you choose what planets you're keeping.

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Make your move, reindeer games.

actually most of us do have coords to alot of planets.... and there isnt a demand for planets bcuz there is almost always a nearby... and there is also probing

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