Treatises

OPIATE Treatises:

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Advice
Treatise on Classes
Treatise on the Terbatim
Treatise on Terbatim Ships
Treatise on the Greblsrac
Treatise on Greblsrac Ships
Treatise on the Mithian
Treatise on Mithian Ships

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Just Advice:
An extract from this post in the Planetia forums by Gesandion
A small guide for all new players. It is based on my impressions and could be taken as advise. Some people will spam this task, because they don't like me, some will tell you that there fleet consist is far better, but I'd like to give an impression on ideas on fleet building.

3) Compare firepower, armor and initiative to the ressource cost. Initiative is the most important factor, as a low initiative allows you to do a lot of damage to your opponent, before his ships fire. Killed ships didn't shoot back.

5) Allways try to find a good balance in your gal with ships. All races have useful ships and are needed in some situations.

6) An opponent, who is more than three times bigger than you must have a very bad fleet design to lose this battle, if he sents all his ships. Better run your fleet than fight a useless combat.

7) You are playing with other people. Killing an attacker is cool, but killing a defenseless target with killing fleet and a second roider wave is efficient, but it throws the other player out of the game. If you are big enough, try to trick him out with a specially build fleet to roid this player. This will be more fun for both.

9) FI aren't the best ships of each players race, but they are useful for inter-alliance help. Allways have a good bunch of them, to help players in other gals.

On Classes:
An extract from The Official Planetia FAQ by Bradz

Fighter - The basic shiptype. These ships are light and agile. Fighters can travel faster, so are best used when quick defence is needed.

Corvette - The Corvettes still has low armour and power, but is stronger than the Fighter.

Frigate - Frigates are overall slower then Fighters and Corvettes. This is redeemed with good offensive power, more guns, armour and faster weapon speed. Frigates are best used when in offense.

Destroyer - Destroyers have generally more guns, faster weapons speed and fair armour. Destroyers are best used when attacking someone that doesn't have ships that target Destroyers.

Cruiser - Cruisers are slow in every way, except their intiative, which is fair. Their main attribute is their armour, which is second best only to the battleship.

Battleship - Battleships are slow in firing, but they have great weapon speed, power and armour. The Battleship is the highest class ship that can be built.

A detailed look at shiptypes by Espirito|n00b

Fighters - The earliest shiptype, being small and fast. Fighters can travel faster, so are best used when defence is needed ASAP, but normally having a low initiative are useful to take out bigger, slower ships aswell, important for all races.

Corvette - Still have low armour and power, but are stronger than the Fighter. Quick speed make them useful for killing opponents or fast defence. The Cloaked Race, the Greblsrac, have a Special Corvette Roider, the Shadow, which, being quicker than normal Roiders can prevent the target from gathering defence from outside their Cluster when used properly. The EMP Race, the Terbatim, need to build Corvettes before being able to target Roiders early in the game. Corvettes provide the first Stealing ship for the Pirate Race, the Kristorg.

Frigate - Frigates are generally slower then Fighters and Corvettes. They make up for this with good offensive power: more guns, armour and faster weapon speed. The Roider is a Frigate whichall races can access and so Frigates are often used as flak for all of the races.

Destroyer - Destroyers are larger than the previous type of ships, and are thus slower, but with better weapons capability and armour. Not too many ships target Destroyers, and few of these are built by many players early on so they can be used most effectively early in the game against players who do not target Destroyers. The Human Race, the Mithians, have a Special Destroyer Roider, the Deus which are extremely effective when used in situations I've just described.

Cruiser - Cruisers are lacking in speed, but are heavily armoured with a large offensive capability due to many guns and high power. Smaller only than Battleships it takes a lot of damage to kill these ships. They are not effective against huge masses of smaller ships as they have (except for the Black Eagle) high initative, and so fire later on in the combat. The EMP Race, the Terbatim have a Special Cruiser Roider, the Legate, which can capture three Orbitals every tick, and is effective when used in conjunction with the Black Eagle for flak.

Battleship - Battleships are the slowest class of ship but generally have the most armour, guns and power. Not effective for defence due to their incredibly high ETA, are not worth the cost of building in many cases.

On THE TERBATIM:
An extract from The Official Planetia FAQ by Bradz
Terbatim are an advanced race that have discovered Eletronic Magnetic Pulses (EMP), and use this technology to freeze (or stun) their enemies, instead of destroying them. Their ship is known as EMP. EMP ships have a low intiative, which allows you to shoot first. This means that it is possible to freeze someone that has a higher score than you. Terbatim also have a Cruiser class capture-type ship. Used right, I'm sure this class roider can gain a fortune of orbitals for your planet.

A further extract from The Official Planetia FAQ by Bradz

Terbatim (EMP)

Offensive: (Early) Sabre, Stinger, Roider (Later) Black Eagle, Legate.
Defensive: Proteus (To kill Pegasus), Lotus/Stinger, Wasp (Fast ETA)

Terbatim can be a fun race to play. The EMP race has a low intiative, which let's them shoot first in battle. This means that you can freeze/stun people that have even have a higher score than you. Be sure to build Proteus to kill Pegasus otherwise you'll be losing alot of ships if you get attacked by them. You have your Proteus to kill Pegasus, Lotus/Stingers to kill those Roiders and Wasps to get to any planets that might need quick defence. Overall, a good race, recommended to average players.

On the Terbatim Ships:

An in depth look at the usefulness and ability of the Terbatim ships by Espirito|n00b

Terbatim

Name

Class

Init

Agil

WpSp

Guns

Pwr

Arm

ERes

Titanium

Silicon

Fuel

ETA

Type

Sabre

1000

EMP

The Sabre is an important part of any Terbatim player's fleet as it has the lowest initiative in the game! Targetting Corvettes, then Fighters, this ship can render many fleets incapacitated by removing their ships with lower ETA. Followed up with more of your Terbatim ships, entire fleets can be prevented from causing any damage. Their strength - vs. fighters and corvettes. Weakness - being used without support from larger ships.

Terbatim

Name Class T1 T2 T3 Init Agil WpSp Guns Pwr Arm ERes Titanium Silicon Fuel ETA Type
Wasp Fi Fi -- -- 6 35 0 3 0 4 65 1150 500 10 2 EMP
The Wasp is really augmentary to the Sabre. Targeting only Fighters, with an Initiative of 6 means that it comes out worse against all EMP ships which target it. Having said this, against other races, its 3 guns allow it to freeze larger numbers of ships than Sabres, and also targets those pesky Fighters which the Sabres either miss or dont get around to targeting! Their weakness - fighting against other EMP ships

Terbatim

Name Class T1 T2 T3 Init Agil WpSp Guns Pwr Arm ERes Titanium Silicon Fuel ETA Type
Lotus Co Fr Co -- 1 23 0 1 0 20 55 1750 1250 20 3 EMP
The Lotus is an important ship as it is the first - and only, until Frigates have been researched - Terbatim ship capable of targeting Roiders. With an Initiative second only to the Sabre, these ships can render enemy Roiders frozen and thus protect your roids, with amazing ease. Targeting Corvettes aswell means that the Greblsrac Special Roider can also be frozen. One of the core components of any Terbatim fleet useful for defence, of yourself, and your allies due to a low ETA, and also for offence to freeze the enemy ships attempting to kill you. Their main weakness - Sabres.

Terbatim

Name Class T1 T2 T3 Init Agil WpSp Guns Pwr Arm ERes Titanium Silicon Fuel ETA Type
Beetle Co Bs Cr De 18 25 14 1 12 13 75 2000 500 30 3 Normal
The Beetle is a useless ship at the beginning of the round. Once Destroyers have been researched, they usefulness increases as they have a low traveltime and can defend yourself and allies from the Special Roiders of the Mithians and other Terbatim, however they are often not cost effective to build in the large numbers required for them to be effective. Weaknesses - fleets containing anything but De, Cr and Bs. Strengths - when used in combination with other ships.

Terbatim

Name Class T1 T2 T3 Init Agil WpSp Guns Pwr Arm ERes Titanium Silicon Fuel ETA Type
Proteus Co De Cr -- 2 20 0 1 0 25 65 2750 1250 40 3 EMP
The Proteus can be loosely recognised as the EMP version of the Beetle. Targeting De and Cr means it is useful to freeze the Mithian and Terbatim Special Roiders. Its low Initiative means that it will most pobably be able to fulfil its role aswell, especially backed up by Sabres. Used in conjunction with the Beetle, the proteus freezes them, and the Beetle kills them. An effective combination. Strengths - working with Beetles. Weakness - need to be accompanied by other ship types.

Terbatim

Name Class T1 T2 T3 Init Agil WpSp Guns Pwr Arm ERes Titanium Silicon Fuel ETA Type
Stinger Fr Fr Co -- 3 20 0 5 0 40 70 4500 3000 85 4 EMP
The Stinger is a very useful ship to use as flak for Roiders. With a decent offensive capability - 5 guns, and a low Initiative they are able to disable an opponents fleet, while an Armour value 4x more than Roiders provide a lot of protection so your Roiders can survive to steal roids. Targeting Fr and Co means they are useful in defence aswell, but may have too high a Travel Time to be effective defending outside of Cluster. One of the pillars of an attacking EMP fleet.

Terbatim

Name Class T1 T2 T3 Init Agil WpSp Guns Pwr Arm ERes Titanium Silicon Fuel ETA Type
Vengeance Fr Bs Cr -- 7 20 0 3 0 45 70 5000 4000 100 4 EMP
The Vengeance can be used as flak for Roiders due to its larger armour value than the Stinger, but targeting Bs and Cr means that this ship will often be left as a sitting duck, targeting little. Another possible use is in-cluster defence vs. Bs and Cr and being the only EMP ship to have Bs as its Primary Target the vengeance is useful, however the Black Eagle and Beetle are possibly better choices.

Terbatim

Name Class T1 T2 T3 Init Agil WpSp Guns Pwr Arm ERes Titanium Silicon Fuel ETA Type
Falcon De Fi Co -- 30 20 35 12 5 50 70 8000 4000 160 4 Normal
The Falcon being the only Destroyer available to the Terbatim is a very important ship. Its killing abilities mean it can eradicate large numbers of fighters, especially if they are frozen by your smaller ships. However, the only use for this is for defence or killing someone's fleet, or in rare cases when they have extremely large amounts of Co and Fi. A useful ship when used right, it isn't always the right choice to build it.

Terbatim

Name Class T1 T2 T3 Init Agil WpSp Guns Pwr Arm ERes Titanium Silicon Fuel ETA Type
Black Eagle Cr Cr De * 5 14 0 6 0 180 70 16000 12000 320 4 EMP
The Black Eagle is one of the most important ships available to the Terbatim. Useful for attacking and defending: Used as flak for Legates and will target anything your opponent has. Used for defence it can target Terbatim Special Roiders but also, in the abscence of De and Cr will target all the ships your opponent has sent at you - the only Terbatim ship with this ability. A must in every Terbatim fleet.

Terbatim

Name Class T1 T2 T3 Init Agil WpSp Guns Pwr Arm ERes Titanium Silicon Fuel ETA Type
Legate Cr Ro -- -- 53 7 100 3 1 105 80 19000 15000 400 5 Capture
The Legate is possibly the most useful ship available to the Terbatim. Able to capture 3 orbitals every tick it has lots of armour and so often captures immense amounts of orbitals - if used right, and accompanied by a bit of luck ;-) Find targets who have not many ships which target Cr, send Legates accompanied by Black Eagles and watch your roid count rise!

Terbatim

Name Class T1 T2 T3 Init Agil WpSp Guns Pwr Arm ERes Titanium Silicon Fuel ETA Type
Viper Bs Fr Co Fi 38 5 30 35 15 350 95 45000 32000 700 5 Normal
The Viper is an extremely powerful ship capable of devastating enemy fleets. However, these come later in the round and cost many resources, they also have a slow Travel Time, and high Initiative compared with other Terbatim ships. Whether these will improve a fleet or not depends upon your rankings, if you are high then they can provide valuable defence for yourself, if lower, then the inability to defend allies, and immense cost suggests it is wiser to use your resources to buy something else.

Terbatim

Name Class T1 T2 T3 Init Agil WpSp Guns Pwr Arm ERes Titanium Silicon Fuel ETA Type
Xentera Bs Fi Co Fr 4 5 0 90 0 400 99 50000 35000 750 5 EMP
The Xentera has an insanely low Initiative for its size and so is extremely useful. Will always shoot before being targeted itself thus making it a great addition to any fleet. Strengths - always fires before being fired upon. Many guns. Lots of armour. Weakness - other Bs, Cr, and De if it is unsupported.

On THE GREBLSRAC:
An extract from The Official Planetia FAQ by Bradz
Greblsrac are also very advanced in their technology, they have adapted their ships with cloaking devices, which stops the enemy from knowing how many ships you may have. Their ship type is known as Cloak. Greblsrac have a Corvette class capture-type ship, which can give people great starts in the game, by combining the Co class roider and other Co class ships for Flak (the ships take the damage instead of the roiders getting destroyed, and making way for capturing more orbitals).

A further extract from The Official Planetia FAQ by Bradz

Greblsrac (Cloaked)

Offensive: Blaze, Shadow
Defensive: (Defend other planets) Vampire, Cobalt (Defend base) Vampire, Iridion, Barracuda (To kill Pegasus)

Knowledge of the game and strategy will help a player when using Greblsrac. Greblsrac players must also count on luck to win their battles, as their main offensive/defensive are Fighters and Corvettes, so a simple attack of Pegasus' could totally annihalate them. The best thing about Greblsrac is the Shadow, which is a capture-type ship (steals enemy orbitals) and is a Corvette class. This means that you could attack early (Tick ~90) and your target could build Frigate-targetters (as they think you're sending Roiders, which are Frigates) and you could steal alot of early roids. You've got the Vampire and Cobalt's fast ETA to defend planets that may need quick defence, and the Iridion and Barracuda to defeat incomming enemies. Recommended to the players above average.

On the Greblsrac Ships:

An in depth look at the usefulness and ability of the Greblsrac ships by Espirito|n00b

Greblsrac