Raid
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In OGame, a raid is an attack on another player's planet undertaken in order to acquire resources.
If an attack is successful, up to 50% of the resources on the target planet may be taken by the attacking fleet as plunder.
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[edit] Booty Calculation & Limits
The process appears to operate as follows:
- Divide the planet's metal in half. This is loaded into storage until the amount is exhausted or until 1/3 of the available space is taken up.
- Divide the planet's crystal in half. This is loaded into storage until the amount is exhausted or until 1/2 of the remaining available space is taken up.
- Divide the planet's deuterium in half. This is loaded into storage until the amount is exhausted or until all the remaining available space is taken up.
- If there is space left over after Step 3, any metal remaining from Step 1 is loaded into storage until the amount is exhausted or until 1/2 of the remaining available space is taken up
- If there is space left over after Step 4, any crystal remaining from Step 2 is loaded into storage the amount is exhausted or until all the remaining available space is taken up.
So...
If a planet has resources numbering 15,000 metal, 3,000 crystal, and 1,000 deuterium, and is attacked with a single Small Cargo Ship (5000 capacity) the attacker will be able to take away, first, 1667 metal, as it can only take 1/3 of its capacity, then 1,500 crystal, then 500 deuterium, then it will use up its last avaliable cargo space with metal because it's already taken half the planet's crystal and deuterium.
[edit] Types of raids
[edit] Blindraid
A blindraid is a raid without the prior espionage of the target. Since that is extremely risky, it is only common in the beginning of new universes, when players don't have acces to espionage probes yet.
[edit] Holiday raid
A holiday raid is a raid during a holiday, e.g. Christmas eve, where it is more likely for the target to be with his family than on OGame. The objective here is less the aquiring of resources than the destruction of the target's fleet since he is can't save his fleet. Since Ogame.org is international, that technique can fail due to time differences (e.g. in central Europe, it might be late on Christmas eve while it is 8 hours earlier in western USA).
[edit] Transporter raid
A transporter raid is a raid, that uses only transports. It should only be executed against targets that have neither defense nor a fleet, since transports have virtually no attack capabilities.
[edit] Inactive raid
An inactive raid is a raid against an inactive player and mostly a subform of the transporter raid, because an inactive's defenses will usually be long destroyed by other players. Inactive raids are the easiest and safest of all raids, but also give the fewest profits, because an inactive's mines only produce half of the normal resources.
[edit] Bashing
Also, Ogame's rules do not allow more than six (6) attacks on a single planet or moon in one day (24 hours), unless you are playing a double-speed server (such as Universes 30 and 40 at ogame.org) which allows up to 12 attacks per 24 hours.
Deviation from this rule, outside of a formally declared war or other extenuating circumstances, is cited as bashing.
[edit] Tips
- Since only 50% of a planet's resources may be taken at a time it is impossible to carry off all of a planet's resources, even with wave upon wave of raids.
- Speedsim seems to estimate the captured resource amounts correctly as well as calculating the amount number of Large Cargo Ships necessary to capture the maximum amount of resources on a given raid scenario.
- To maximize profit choose a target with comparatively low defense compared to the resources you can gain.If your target is online, they will most likely fleet save, but you may avoid this by paying attention to the activity star.
