Tip #2 Defending your base

Defending your base

1. It really is impossible to defend your base unless you are one of the top 10 players. And there are strategies even in that case to annoy the heck out of them
• Asking reinforcements from your team will do no good. It will just cause them to have to spend all afternoon sending ships to the CVP for repair
• Unless you are a top player, you cannot stop an attack. It will happen. The best you can do is make it unproductive to the enemy
2. Since, you cannot defend, then you must not make it worth their while
3. Build up your storehouse
4. Always keep your resources below your storehouse limit
• There are times you need to go over the limit, plan ahead
• Bring all your resource ships back at the same time, so that you are not over the limit more than a few minutes
• Use a shield only for those short periods of time right before you are going to build something. This should be the only time you need to use a shield
5. Use tier 1 warships (called t1) to defend your base. They are super cheap to repair. The enemy will lose more t2 and t3 ships attacking your base than he gets from plundering (especially if you stay below the storehouse limits)
• One additional thought. Build 1000 t1 of each type, otherwise on repeated attacks, the computer will dip into your other ship types
• I have 3000 t1's and I'm thinking of building more and getting rid of my t2s, so that my good ships are always protected by the dock
6. Use a weak carrier to defend the base too. (Every now and then substitute your attack carrier to bloody their nose, but always use T1 ships)