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Clouds · 6 Mar 2011, 02:59

I returned to this game a couple of rounds ago, so bare with me if I ask any 'noobish' questions.

It seems to me that Zik is a hard race play due to losing stealers upon stealing ships.

It's not so bad when you're defending as you receive a salvage bonus, but when you're attacking, and you steal ships that are of no good to you, it kinda sucks.

Any thoughts?

Demort · 6 Mar 2011, 03:05

This answer you won't like don't simply don't land if you don't want the ships zik is hard to play but once your good with zik you become feared throughout the universe

Mzyxptlk · 6 Mar 2011, 12:04

Zik is alright. It's a race for the long haul. If you can hold onto your value, get a few decent steals in defence (for value gains in salvage), Zik can work out extremely well.

You're right though, losing a large part of your fi/co fleet by stealing a fr/de fleet (for example) can be very annoying, especially if you're in an alliance in which the plan was mass fi/co. Being the only fr/de planet in a fi/co alliance is very tough. Pick your targets carefully, hit planets of which you would like to steal: if they run, you get roids, if they stay, you get ships.

Alternatively, go light on the stealers that target the wrong classes. The stats can help out as well: last time I played Zik fi/co, they stole fi/co and killed co/fr. This meant that whenever you hit fi/co, you'd always get ships you could use, but when you hit fr/de, you wouldn't suddely end up with a bunch of ships you didn't want.

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Originally Posted by Demort

This answer you won't like don't simply don't land if you don't want the ships

Quadruple negation, nice one.

Clouds · 6 Mar 2011, 20:04

Sometimes you can't choose what you steal even when you've targetted an fi/co planet due to galaxy defence sending FR/DE.

Tiamat101 · 6 Mar 2011, 22:19

The whole thing with being zik and up/down stealing is hard to work with. So in order to compensate you either need to make better team ups to help cover the fr/de or be VERY carful on the targets you pick and dont make lands that arent good for you. Losing of of your fi/co to steal fr/de that are good ships to have isnt bad.

The other thing with being zik is you cant nessicarly attack EVERY day. After a good steal on attack usually takes a few days to rebuild those ships so defend and try and get some nice salvage.