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Don't be a farm!

In AgeOfSpace, “farming” is when a player raids other players with weak defenses/fleets and a lot of resources. Every day you raid the person and “harvest” the resources they have raised. Obviously, you don't want this to happen to you. But, there are a lot of things you can and should do. Here are just a few:

Use your resources!

This is just basic common sense if you ask me, but a lot of people don't seem to get it. The reason people farm is for resources. The more resources you have the more profitable you are, and the more people will want to farm you. It's amazing how many people just let their resources pile up, unused. If you have enough money for an upgrade or research that you know will come in handy someday, what the hell are you waiting for? Upgrade already! You should try to have as little excess resources as possible. Make it a point to use up as much as you can before you go offline at the end of every session. One good way to use up excess resources, especially at the beginning, is to just spend whatever you have left on defences whenever you go offline. That way, even if you get attacked it'll be that much less for the other person to get in a raid. You can also build ships, but be warned: other players can collect resources from destroted ships, too, so if you build a decent-sized fleet make absolutely sure to…

Fleetsave when you're offline

Fleetsaving is when you send your ships away from your planet to protect them. While your ships are traveling somewhere, it is impossible to attack them. Every time you go offline, figure out the number of hours you'll be gone and send your ships on a mission that will take that many hours.

Fleetsave when you're being attacked

At some point, you're going to be attacked by someone too strong for you to hold off. Even if you can't destroy the fleet, you can still make sure they won't get anything when they do hit you!

Build defenses

This can useful but don't count on them too much. No matter how much defense you build, the other person can always build more ships. Maybe a lot faster than you can build defenses. But it's still good to build some. Early in the game, especially, a lot of people will attack without even knowing what your defenses are–it's always fun to log in and discover someone has just had 3 heavy fighters destroyed in one round. :) And like I said before, bulking up your defenses is a good way to use up excess resources when you go offline–even if they are destroyed, at least it's more resources that your attacker won't be getting.

PM the attacker

You'd be surprised how often this works. Yes, AgeOfSpace is a competitive game but not all the people who play are total jerks. If you tell them that their attacks are making it impossible for you to advance, and ask them nicely to let up, there's a decent chance that they'll be willing to attack you less–or maybe even stop attacking you entirely. After all, there are always plenty of other planets in the galaxy. Anyway you don't have anything to lose by trying. DON'T send them insults or empty threats. If they're farming you, chances are they already know what you got, and they know it's not nearly enough for you to get them back.

Ask for help to other players.

Other players can send fleets to defend your planet from attack, to destroy enemy fleet. If you ask for help to another player, you have to make yourself in your friends list so that the other player can help you. It is not bad idea to seek an Alliance that will help us defend ourselves

Turn down/turn off your mines when offline

This is kind of a desperate measure. But, if you are getting attacked every single time you log off, this might help stop it. If you reduce the amount of resources you put out when offline, you can make it unprofitable to invade your planet. If you do this for awhile, the person who was farming you will stop, and probably forget about your planet. Then you can start building up again.