I've been able to successfully attack a couple of times.. but, what I find is that my cargo ships always try to even out the amount of each material acquired. Is there a way to make the cargo ships go for a specific material more so than others?

I do not believe there is, I could be wrong though.

The resource distribution is built into the Battle Engine if I recall correctly.

If you send enough cargo's to get all the resources, you'll get half of it.
If raiding with lc, you also need a couple of extra lc's based on amount of resources, i'm not quite sure but i guess it was somethin' like this:100 k resource add 1 more lc, 200k add 2 more and so on...
And about aiming for a specific resource, i havent heard anything either

priority is metal-crystal-deut. take the largest sum, divide by 2. take that sum and divide by 25k. then multiply by 3. send that many lc if raiding with lc (i assume you still are). example 550k metal 300k crystal 100k deut on target. 550/2=275. you need 1 lc for each 25k so 11 lc. 11*3=33 send 33 in the first wave and half that in the second and half that in the third and so on. 33-17-8-4-2 done.

The cargo load is as follows.

1) The cargo space is split in three equal parts.
(if there are 300 space then each resource will get 100 space) *

2) You can only raid half of each resources maximum on each successful attack missions, that is given your raid fleet has enough cargo space.
(So if there are 1.000.000 metal, 500.000 crystal and 300.000 deut on the planet/moon on a single raid you can only raid maximum 500.000 metal, 250.000 crystal and 150.000 deut given that your cargo space has minimum 500.000x3=1.500.000 cargo space, point we are taking the maximum cargo load for the maximum resource) **

* There is an exception for crystal/deut. If there are still space available after loading the metal and crystals rest of the empty space (maximum 50% of entire cargo space) will be loaded by deuterium if there are more to be raided.
- If there is just metal and crystal, and metal load is less than 1/3rd of the total cargo load then crystal can be loaded maximum of (1/2 of total cargoload - metal load) and 1/3rd of total cargoload.

** Adding to the previous you can still only raid half of the deuts on a single successful attack. Only half of the cargo space can be loaded.

SPY wrote: * There is an exception for crystal/deut. If there are still space available after loading the metal and crystals rest of the empty space (maximum 50% of entire cargo space) will be loaded by deuterium if there are more to be raided.

I'm fairly certain that part doesn't work in our loot system, each resource will fill up a max of 1/3 of your cargo space - just send enough cargo that your space = 50% of the highest resource available * 3. That simple.

Although to be honest, just use EC, you wont have to math your head off.

here is a few scenario. i am still trying to find out what exactly is happening in the battle sim. so if you can understand the inner works better out of it please share.

Attack 1 EC cargo space space 10.000.000

scenario 1:
Metal 10.000.000
Crystal 10.000.000
Deuterium 10.000.000

Result:
winnings Metal:3.333.333 Crystal:3.333.333 Deuterium:3.333.333
(1/3 for each res)

Scenario 2:
Metal 10.000.000
Crystal 10.000.000
Deuterium 0

Result:
winnings Metal:3.333.333 Crystal:3.333.333 Deuterium:0
(1/3 for each res)


Scenario 3:
Metal 0
Crystal 10.000.000
Deuterium 10.000.000

Result:
winnings Metal:0 Crystal:5.000.000 Deuterium:5.000.000
(1/2 for each res where there is no metal present.)

Scenario 4:
Metal 10.000.000
Crystal 0
Deuterium 10.000.000

Result:
winnings Metal:3.333.333 Crystal:0 Deuterium:5.000.000
(1/3 for metal and 1/5 of the cargo space for deuterium)

Scenario 5:
Metal 5.000.000
Crystal 10.000.000
Deuterium 10.000.000

Result:
winnings Metal:2.500.000 Crystal:3.750.000 Deuterium:3.750.000
(1/3 for metal and {1-1/3}/2 for crystal and deuterium)

Scenario 6:
Metal 5.000.000
Crystal 6.000.000
Deuterium 10.000.000

Result:
winnings Metal:2.500.000 Crystal:3.000.000 Deuterium:4.500.000
(1/3 for metal and rest is divided between crystal and deuterium based on cargo space and lout)


rest is yours to decide which is the right way.

no u can not they go for equal amounts

decadence wrote: Q:When I raid, my cargo space does not completely fill up.
-You can only raid 50% of the defenders' resources for every attack. That is 50% metal , 50% crystal and 50% deut. Not the 50% of the combined resources.
-1/3 of your cargo space will be used for metal, another 1/3 for crystal, and 1/3 for deuterium.
-Crystal can can take up the cargo space for metal if there is not enough metal filling up to 1/2 the cargo space.
-Deuterium can take up the cargo space for metal and crystal if there is not enough metal or crystal filling up to 100% the cargo space.

Is that already outdated? If yes then unlock it so I can update it. (Where's the snicker emoticon?)

Edit: Based on spy's results. It seems like the they reduced the cap of deut to 1/2 only.

-You can only raid 50% of the defenders' resources for every attack. That is 50% metal , 50% crystal and 50% deut. Not the 50% of the combined resources.
-1/3 of your cargo space will be used for metal, another 1/3 for crystal, and 1/3 for deuterium.
-Crystal can can take up the cargo space for metal if there is not enough metal filling up to 1/2 the cargo space.
-Deuterium can take up the cargo space for metal and crystal if there is not enough metal or crystal filling up to 1/2 the cargo space.