Yeah - it's shit. You should earn resources for every planet on Vacation Mode in your solar system. Since they are not viable targets.

Ok, since Zany's been AFK for 11 days, I'm raiding his planet

You have some disgusting expedition luck, poison. I've gone on three expeditions now and the results have been:
"Your fleet gets lost and takes longer to return home"
"Your fleet finds 300 Deuterium"
"Your fleet encounters Aliens and is completely destroyed"

I've encountered Pirates once, and I raped them... I've had a lot of "takes longer" or "nothing is found", but people tend to focus on my "Deuterium 29.552 have been captured." ones. Yes, that is a legit expedition, too

EDIT:
BLOODY HELL:

Your expedition found an ancient, fully loaded but deserted freighter convoy. Some of the resources could be rescued.
Metal 535.392 have been captured.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Feb 22 2011, 1:28 am by poison_us.

How many ships do you send on an expedition?

That one had...let's see. It was in Electra...but
8 Small Cargo
27 Large Cargo
6 Light Fighters
37 Heavy Fighters
38 Probes

Or close to that. It's funny; that universe, I started with only 2 or 3 Light Cargoes on expeditions...and I've amassed a nice little fleet with no cost. This latest expedition gave me a Cruiser (ironically, I can't build yet; I've been maxing hyperspace drive and other stuff over Lazars), 30 more Probes, and two Light Fighters.

Ah wow, I usually only send a small cargo ship (or two now, since I can do up to 2 expeditions) since I'm afraid of losing my ships.

I've lost maybe 2 ships, on both universes, that weren't easily discarded like probes and light fighters, and those were only light cargoes. The benefits of a larger force outweigh the risks of said force greatly. Also, can't do more than one at a time, only have level 1 2 (in progress) astrophysics, and I need more levels for 2.

BTW, sending nearly my entire fleet out on its first >1 (it's actually 3) hour mission on Electra. Discuss.

EDIT: Just wondering...can you have more than one moon?

I send my whole fleet (15 light fighters, 7 heavy fighters, 12 light cargos, 2 heavy cargos (gained from expeditions) and 8 probes) on expeditions :3 Wonder if that's bad tho.

You could lose your entire fleet to pirates or aliens. Other than that, it isn't bad.

I've lost about 10 small cargo ships (sent 1 at a time) on Expeditions, so I just don't trust my luck with sending more than that.

EDIT:
I just got "Your expedition fleet made contact with a friendly alien race. They announced that they would send a representative with goods to trade to your worlds." but I have no idea if that's just another "you found nothing" message, or if the alien race will actually provide.

3-hour mission...did nothing.

Devlin, that means you get something or other, I read it in the wiki. I just can't remember what, exactly. NEVERMIND! Just got it. You have a free merchant to trade (instead of paying DM for it), IIRC.

Expedition 5: "You find nothing"
Expedition 6: "Your fleet encounters Aliens and is completely destroyed"

...

I now have only 2 small cargos left.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Feb 22 2011, 6:02 pm by Kaias.

I've encountered Pirates twice, but they're more of a nuisance than a real problem

Expeditions suck. The deuterium cost to send a decent fleet on a lengthy expedition far outweighs the average and possible maximum gains. And there's the tiny little issue of losing your entirely fleet completely.

I dread the day poison goes into a casino.

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I dread the day poison goes into a casino.

Bitch please, I know when to cash out. And I never go all in, at least not with units I can't replace easily.

EDIT:

Your expedition discovered a small asteroid from which some resources could be harvested.
Crystal 14.090 have been captured.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Feb 22 2011, 8:29 pm by poison_us.

Jealous D: I never have enough crystal for anything

Some guy ranked 600 something just scouted my 3 planets. I scouted him back, and my probe got owned.

So I have a feeling I'm going to need my rape whistle soon.

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Some guy ranked 600 something just scouted my 3 planets. I scouted him back, and my probe got owned.

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Metal: 261.937
Crystal: 177.029
Deuterium: 15.017
Contact with the attacking fleet has been lost.
(That means it was destroyed in the first round.)

So I have a feeling I'm going to need my rape whistle soon.

Build enough cargoes to ship off your stuff, and then troll him like I did.

Also, the "friendly alien race" thing is right; I just got one. Go to the merchant tab, and look to the lower right corner of the picture...it should say "trade", click to see rates and stuff. You can even leave and come back to it later, if you don't want to trade just yet at that rate.

EDIT:

Your expedition found an ancient, fully loaded but deserted freighter convoy. Some of the resources could be rescued.
Metal 101.952 have been captured.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Feb 23 2011, 2:38 am by poison_us.

Expedition 7: "Your fleet encounters pirates and loses"

Now those two cargo ships are gone. I'm done with that BS.