My word.. I started to hear rumblings that "a big hit" happened today in our alliance Discord. Started checking the leaderboards and pretty easily pieced together what went down.
Emnoxage, I wish you well on rebuilding your honor points after this.
Congrats on the absolutely massive hit to you both!
a3, glotr. I'd assume the resources that were left (due to draw) will help those efforts.
Well, I hate to see it on an alliance member but this does go to show that determination will pay off. Also, 5000 RIPs?!? DANG! I know who NOT to tick off around here lol
This should also serve as a wake up call to many about changing up their FS method(s) since moons can always get popped.
FR Vauss! Let us know if you need anything
Changing what now?! The universe is fine how it is! Shouldn't we vote on this or something?!
Plus 660k HP are always nice.
660k HP is definitely worth it I'd think. Gonna make it much harder for some (Lookin' at you Snowboarder ) to catch up 
GLOTR True!
Plus 660k HP are always nice.
660k HP is definitely worth it I'd think. Gonna make it much harder for some (Lookin' at you Snowboarder ) to catch up
GLOTR True!
Ok gameforge just so you know we notice this - trying to hide the dreadful inactivity won't fix anything. It used to say "players online" and then a number on the Zenith button
we need changes to try and FIX the inactivity not cover it up just sayin
I noticed that too and pointed it out in our alliance's Discord. I mean, I could understand to an extent (people could track when the most active times on the server are, etc.) but yes, it definitely hides the trending inactivity.
Maybe if they changed it to say something like the number of active accounts instead of just the number of accounts registered? I guess at least they didn't just change it for us and made it an overall lobby change.
Hello, I represent the 285 members of the Zenith community.
285? Almost 2/3 of those players are inactive/v-mode. Latest stats I saw had Zenith at 99 "active" players but I'd be hard pressed to find that many actually being super active. We've probably reached the point of no return and a merge is likely inevitable, so it would at least be nice to see us get settings similar to a uni that we'll be merged into so we can play a little catch up before.
Okay, I'm done with my rambling.. Mostly posting this to get future updates on the thread (and maybe generate some interest with a post counter, lol)
Profit??
PROFIT!!
Nice hit!
FR Whale Time!
Simple spy n fly, couldn't pass up all the deut that was sitting, as well as the crystal from the sats
FR Defender!
On 13-04-2023 --:--:--, the following fleets met in battle:
Attacker Blanco [UST]
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Light Fighter 4.000
Heavy Fighter 1.000
Cruiser 1.000
Destroyer 200
Reaper 200
Large Cargo 850
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Defender Governor Yakini
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Small Cargo 1
Large Cargo 1
Light Fighter 1
Heavy Fighter 1
Cruiser 1
Battleship 1
Recycler 1
Espionage Probe 1
Bomber 1
Solar Satellite 6.916
Destroyer 1
Deathstar 1
Battlecruiser 1
Crawler 593
Reaper 250
Rocket Launcher 18
Light Laser 2
Heavy Laser 1
Gauss Cannon 1
Ion Cannon 2
Plasma Turret 2
Small Shield Dome 1
Large Shield Dome 1
_________________________________________
After the battle ...
Attacker Blanco [UST]
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Light Fighter 3.487 ( -513 )
Heavy Fighter 858 ( -142 )
Cruiser 894 ( -106 )
Destroyer 190 ( -10 )
Reaper 192 ( -8 )
Large Cargo 744 ( -106 )
_________________________________________
Defender Governor Yakini
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Destroyed!
_________________________________________
The attacker has won the battle!
The attacker captured:
17.277.875 Metal, 1.781.178 Crystal and 5.176.062 Deuterium
The attacker lost a total of 10.348.000 units.
The defender lost a total of 71.174.000 units.
At these space coordinates now float 15.746.043 metal and 16.775.458 crystal.
The attacker captured a total of 24.235.115 units.
The chance for a moon to be created from the debris was 21%.
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Debris harvested by the attacker(s):
15.746.043 Metal and 16.775.833 Crystal
Summary of profit/losses:
Summary attackers(s)
Metal: 26.596.918
Crystal: 15.158.011
Deuterium: 4.654.062
The attacker(s) made a profit of 46.408.991 units.
Summary defender(s)
Metal: -45.180.875
Crystal: -34.890.178
Deuterium: -15.338.062
The defender(s) lost a total of 95.409.115 units.
I know we've been talking about this one most of the day in Discord, but again, nice hit! Glad to see that there is still a small sliver of life left in Zenith these days
FR Poverty!
Just think of how much more rec support you'd need if we had Deut to DF 
Hate to see it on one of my alliance mates but got a good laugh when I thought of this one
I returned after about a 8-10 year hiatus and don't have spreadsheets but I've found various tools on the Tolerated Tools list to be useful.
https://board.en.ogame.gamefor…dons-tools-scripts-skins/
TrashSim (combat sim), mmorpg-stat.eu (player stats), ProxyForGame & o-tools (various calculators), and OGame Infinity (browser add-on) are some of my go-to tools to use these days.
Take this with a grain of salt since these have been recommended by others I play with on Zenith and may not be the "best" tools for your specific play style.
Hope this helps!
Small suggestion, but it would be nice to see a report with expeditions that lost the fleet.
For instance, it would simply read something to the effect of:
[INSERT EXPEDITION PHRASING HERE] (Black hole, communications lost, etc.)
"The following ships have been lost:
[List of type and number of ships lost]
ie.
Large Cargo: 1500
Reaper: 1
Pathfinder; 10"
Personally, I like to use a couple different expo fleet compositions at random and it's hard to remember which one I may have lost
Nice hit!
FR Defender!
Nice one!
FR Defender!
Got a spy report on this guy shared by an alliance mate and was hesitant due to flight time and deut cost, but my fleet hasn't seen much combat in a while either so...
Defender kept the fleet stationary so no FS, no fleet
Took bigger losses than I wanted, but had to keep the deut cost down some. 2 less RIPs out there as well.
Thanks to Snowboarder mainly for rec support, but also some others in UST for helping coordinate this one!
FR Defender!
On 28-02-2023 --:--:--, the following fleets met in battle:
Attacker Blanco [UST]
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Light Fighter 15.000
Heavy Fighter 4.226
Cruiser 1.997
Battleship 1.331
Battlecruiser 800
Bomber 455
Destroyer 240
Reaper 400
Large Cargo 450
Espionage Probe 1
_________________________________________
Defender lsyepp89
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Small Cargo 360
Large Cargo 60
Light Fighter 380
Heavy Fighter 80
Cruiser 50
Battleship 50
Recycler 60
Espionage Probe 350
Bomber 35
Solar Satellite 150
Destroyer 7
Deathstar 2
Battlecruiser 21
Crawler 10
Reaper 647
Pathfinder 4
Rocket Launcher 2.300
Light Laser 1.150
Heavy Laser 120
Gauss Cannon 50
Ion Cannon 120
Plasma Turret 2
Small Shield Dome 1
Large Shield Dome 1
_________________________________________
After the battle ...
Attacker Blanco [UST]
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Light Fighter 13.341 ( -1.659 )
Heavy Fighter 3.820 ( -406 )
Cruiser 1.854 ( -143 )
Battleship 1.262 ( -69 )
Battlecruiser 773 ( -27 )
Bomber 443 ( -12 )
Destroyer 235 ( -5 )
Reaper 394 ( -6 )
Large Cargo 412 ( -38 )
Espionage Probe 1 ( -0 )
_________________________________________
Defender lsyepp89
________________________________________________
Destroyed!
_________________________________________
The attacker has won the battle!
The attacker captured:
884.247 Metal, 114.925 Crystal and 101.231 Deuterium
The attacker lost a total of 24.399.000 units.
The defender lost a total of 151.289.000 units.
At these space coordinates now float 41.734.031 metal and 26.424.970 crystal.
The attacker captured a total of 1.100.403 units.
The chance for a moon to be created from the debris was 20%.
The attacker(s) captured the debris.
Summary of profit/losses:
Summary attackers(s)
Metal: 26.792.278
Crystal: 19.032.895
Deuterium: -964.769
The attacker(s) made a profit of 44.860.404 units.
Summary defender(s)
Metal: -84.086.247
Crystal: -51.819.925
Deuterium: -16.483.231
The defender(s) lost a total of 152.389.403 units.
Man, all the chaos on trying to keep up what was going on with this one, between Discord and in-game messages (while checking in from my phone)
Nice hit and enjoy the profits!
FR Defender!
Minimal losses from the attacker, plus a moon for the defender. Hate that it was one of our alliance mates, but alas
FR Lith! Reach out if you need anything
Where to begin...? lol
I think we can all agree that the activity ratio is abysmally low compared to other .us unis. How do we breathe some new life into Zenith while we either wait for a possible merge or just to get Zenith back to a "more active" state? I do think that the settings change discussion has been pretty active, though how do we get players who have gone on a "permanent vacation mode" or just straight inactive back into the mix? I'm not 100% convinced that solely a settings change will help get those players back into Zenith, as I'm sure many have moved onto newer unis.
Personally, Zenith was the newest .us uni that was around when I decided on a whim to get back into OGame a few months back. Lifeforms have been a welcome change, even though I haven't developed mine as well as I could (yet 
).
Something I've seen in other games is a "welcome back" type of event/package, though I'm not sure this could be implemented in OGame as well. Basically, if a player has been inactive for some time, they can return to active status and gain some sort of "bonus" to help them get back up to speed and/or rebuild. The Tritium rewards "events" have been quite helpful, so I'm also not convinced that a "welcome back" type of thing may be needed. Tritium rewards are structured similar to what I'd expect in such a thing anyway, so it's more about the timing and how to implement. Maybe if there were some way to trigger a Tritium rewards chain once someone has entered "I" (30 days+ inactive) status and comes back(?)
Just spitballing here so open to any other thoughts on how to help rebuild Zenith overall, especially from those more in the know on these types of things
Agree with these settings!
Edit: Except for the DiDF, I'd prefer for that to remain unchanged
I am also good with excluding DiDF, but we could leave that to the polls
For sure, an increase in the economy speeds will benefit everyone.
I am leery on any overall DF increase, but I'm not sold one way or the other so may be best to see what the overall consensus is and adapt accordingly.
Additionally, I'd also like to see "Probe Storage = ON" added to the poll. Again, I'm not sold one way or the other but it would be an interesting mechanic to see in action if the consensus vote agrees.
