Screenshots looked good enough for me, signed up under 'Crehl' on universe 22. I've been playing a similar game (But text-based) recently, so hopefully I shouldn't have too much trouble starting up.
Yup, if you check under the Resources tab you can see your exact production rates and power usage. It pays to click "Calculate" as it often doesn't add your latest building into the equations (so it may say you don't have enough energy when if you recalculate it, you do)
Lol, I knew you'd get into it XD...
Want me to send you some extra resources afterall once I get some fleet slots freed up? -
Those starting resources you get really are rediculously small, "500 metal and crystal" isn't even an amount you'd consider worth scraping off the hull of your recyclers in a weeks time.
(Unfortunatly that'll have to wait til tommorow, I accidentlly paralysed myself by assigning too many fleets on long-duration assignments so I can't send out any transports til some of my other ships get back from their asignments, the earliest isn't due until like 1.30am so I'll probably be in bed)
Lol, did you actually buy the geologist upgrade, or just thinking about it?
If you did I'd be careful who you mention it to as a lot of players consider it cheating and delibratly target people who use the service and they want to have it banned. Besides you won't need it soon.
I think I saw some Excel sheets being offered for calculations on the main forum, yeah, here:
http://board.ogame.org/thread.php?threadid=226714
Yeah, most people are. When they suggested the subscription system there was a HUGE protest, lot of players quit and the forums are still abuzz with people who want the option removed. But, meh *shrugs* - it's all storm in a teacup.
If you click on my name in the buddy list, or the little "piece of paper" icon after my messages you can send messages in game. If you look on your overview screen it'll tell you if you have new messages waiting.
Just to illustrate something for the new players:
[url="http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/7384/overviewte8.jpg"]The Overview page is your friend =p[/url]
New messages, incoming and outgoing ships, what's being built on what planet can all be found on there so check it regulary =p
Meh, the Moderators closed my topic aksing about Aspies who play OGame - apparently you are only allowed to ask that kind of thing on your alliance front page, however considering how few Aspies there are in the world the odds of one just chancing across the alliance page given there over 1.5 MILLION potential colonies in OGame, and we are but a few people in that sea of worlds, I don't rate very highly... damn.
Well, I think we should split off the Alliance sooner rather than later. I'm thinking we should use the Alliance tag "Aspies", granted it's not particulary catchy like "AFF" and whatnot, but people on the spectrum will instantly recognise the term and maybe take a closer look at the alliance and potentially join us.
The tag is the single word that appears next to your name and stuff - like Pwn3d o nmy current alliance. So yeah needs to be one word and short.
Then you have a seperate Alliance Name which shows on the Alliance page itself. (Karnumian Empire in the case of our current alliance)
So how many aspies are known to play ogame? If more people are coming, I think it might be a better idea to wait for the next(30th) universe to start and play there because everyone will start from nothing. It is impossible to register and become good at 22th universe right now because it's a very old universe. I played in 36th universe in Turkish ogame(
http://www.ogame.com.tr ) for 2 months and i quit when I was ranked second. If many Aspies join, I might join 30th universe in 20 March(that's when it will go online). It will have x2 speed. I played in a x2 speed Turkish universe before, it made me very tired but it was more fun.
They closed it probably because they thought it was an alliance introduction topic. I created another one without mentioning alliances.
http://board.ogame.org/thread.php?threadid=231140
By the way if any Aspies are thinking about starting ogame, I suggest starting now in an old universe to learn the basics before playing in a new universe seriously.
Yes the more experience you get in 22th universe, the better you'll do in 30th universe. I have exams in the university 10 days after 30th universe opens. But if many aspies come I'll join anyway, although I can't spend too much time for the game as I used to. It will be x2 speed universe so it will require too much time. By the way what's your rank in established universes generally Ryuujin? If many aspies join and we decide to start 30th universe, I may translate a very long guide I wrote for a Turkish website. It covers everything in the first month of the universes. I had 1st rank in 2 Turkish universes but I have never played in
http://www.ogame.org .I only played a week in 14th universe when it was new. That's one of the reasons why I want to play in
http://www.ogame.org ,it will be a good change
I only started playing just over 2 weeks ago with some of my friends. I'm currently ranked 1.464 of 2.843 with 4,112 points. It should be pointed out I've been actively avoiding letting my score go up too fast, didn't fancy getting beaten up prematurely. (Plus I'm abandoning the last of my kickstart planets tommorow as my first 4 permanent colonies have settled down now so I'm working on their defences and organisation, then beginning a new wave of expansion once I'm done there)
For practical purposes, I've already got Ion Cannons, Impulse Mk 5 power Small Cargo fleet big enough to res save properly, Large Shield generators on all my worlds, reasonable espionage etc =p
if you want you can register in universe 21, that's where i mostly play =>543.542 (Rank 51 of 2.606)
i can give you lots of free resources and playing advice if you need it
