ok, I have played EV for hundreds of hours, and have successfully taken over the WHOLE universe. Every single planet. Even earth, luna, stardock alpha, mars, and Ruby. This may seem inpossibel, as these planets have over 3500 ships as defence(i have checked with ev-edit) but i have found out three bugs in EV that make this great feat possible. I have done it on a pilot named Rick_Hardslab(it is one of the three deafalt names in EV), who is in a confed cruser with 76 patrol ships, and 18 hawks wihout ever using a plugin! no cheator plugs ever. the tricks is listed below. these tricks/bugs also work in EVO, but not aswell, as the ships in that game often do not accept bribes.
there is a last trick, above a planet, place enuf space bombs to kill the ships that are launched in 1 hit, at once. demand tribute, and they will launch ships, all the ships will blow up, and no more will come out. replace the bombs, and do again, until the planet is dominated. this trick works especially well on the pirate planets, as they launch rapiers, which are killed by 1 space bomb, and most sell space bombs.
i figured out three awesome tricks. first, attack some ship and then right away, mesage them, and offer them a bribe. pay them, and then continue to attack them. they will not use any secondary weapons:-) makes big ships easy, cause they cant use fighters or missles or rockets.(any weapon that uses shift). only their turrents and cannons that fire with spacebar are used. that trick leads to another one. get in a ship with fighter bay, and attack and bribe, and disable other ships. then board them, and if they have fighters of your type, capture those. you can then capture many more than you can buy, and get hundreds of fighters, and you can launch all of them you want to.
That trick leads to the Third, and best trick, as you know there is a limit to the number of ships that can be in the system at once(around 50) if there is that many no more can come in, from bays, hyperspace, or planets. so you get six escorts, and a lot of fighters, have the escotrs hold position, launch all the fighters you are allowed to, makeing sure that no other ships are in the system. recall 1 fighter so that there is room for one more ship in system. tell all your escorts and fighters to hold postion with the "V" key, and then demand tribute on a planet (it works very well on earth) the planet will launch 1 ship, destroy it, than demand tribute again, they will launch another, do this areound 5 times, and they agree to pay you tribute.
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