Expeditions

Should I be running expeditions?

I've read a couple guides, but am not sure whether I should bother with them and if so what ships I should be sending. Anyone have any experience here?

Expeditions are helpful for gaining Dark Matter. There are occasions where you can also gain a small amount of Metal, Crystal, or Deuterium. And sometimes you even get some ships (Esp Probes, Light Fighters, nothing too big at least for me). However, you do risk the chance of being attacked by "pirates" and possibly losing the fleet you send, or getting sucked into a black hole and losing your fleet. You also might end up having something bad happen where it takes forever for your fleet to come back. Finally, there are a lot of times where you just get nothing from expeditions.

For ships to send, I usually just send some small/large cargo. I usually don't send anything too big in case they get attacked. And I only send like 3 or 4 ships at that. Again, you risk being attacked and losing your fleet, so it's risky to send a lot of ships.

Basically it's up to you to decide whether or not they're worth it. They are helpful if you want dark matter, or the small resources/fleet you might gain. It's also helpful for fleet saving if you're careful. If you do it enough, it can be really helpful.

I hope this is accurate and helped to answer your question. I'm sure someone else can correct me if I made any mistakes, and if you read about expeditions already, this should just be a summation of what you read.

Thank you!

Just knowing that sending a few transports can be profitable is a big help. From the guides it sounded like I needed to send major fleets.

I'll start sending 3-4 large transports and see what happens.

I'm glad I could help.

Just know that you may not get a lot of resources, and when you do, it won't be after every expedition.

isnt there a ... thing where if you send bombers you are more likely to get... ships?

Hawktalon wrote:

isnt there a ... thing where if you send bombers you are more likely to get... ships?

I'm not sure, I haven't heard of that before. That's something to check the ogame forums for, sorry I can't say anything about that.

k

on the forums it seems to be confirmed... better and more often ships will be found when bombers are included