420Anarchy

Had to remake this guide for updating purposes.

Guide To Emplacements
This is about Emplacements, Cloud Ports, and Ship Yards

Quick description that ShadowAce117 had written:

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Emplacements are basically Super-turrets in the grand scheme of things. Cloud ports are useful in the fact that having 50 focused-beam emplacements can take down attack planes and frigates very easily while photons can down those pesky battleships, cruisers, or (in rare cases) light flagships/level 1 airships.

A Dock, or cloud port, is essentially it's own fighting unit. It stays at your city defending and intimidating your enemies, should your city be attacked without an army to protect it, your cloud port will rise to the fight. If an army is supporting the defense, your cloud port will assist with it, making for a more effective defensive force to rip the invaders to shreds.

If 5 regular emplacements can bog down an entire attack force consisting of attack planes, then thinking of what a well-rounded army together with these giant, floating mega-turrets would completely dishearten
any attacker!

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Since somebody requested a step by step tutorial on how to make and place emplacements here it is.
1. Make a Cloud Port to build your own flagship.
2. Build a Ship Yard (from castle not military).
3. On Ship Yard menu you can see a "flagship list" tab, click on that to select a flagship or dock.
Cloud Ports = Docks, and can be equipped with land emplacements which are strong defensive buildings.
Flag Ships = Custom built from Cloud Port, not the default hero flag ship because it's ineligible to hold emplacements.
4. Select either your flag ship or dock to start building the emplacement for it, you can't build from different cities so either move your hero to the city with your ship yard or it won't get equipped, also if you want to equip a dock you must have a ship yard in that designated city.
5. Build and wait until it's finished then it should be equipped already, if this ship dies it loses everything so don't be wasteful cause these aren't cheap!

Cloud Port:
Castle Level 2
Sandstone 1600
Cost 500g
Population 80
Time 8H

Ship Yard:
War Room Level 2
Sandstone 250
Cost 200g
Population 20
Time 30M

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Let's start off by showing the selection screen within Cloud Port, The
Cloud Port is basically a land dock where you can place the land emplacements on it as defence.
This building can also build your own custom flag ships eligible to equip emplacements.


This shows the 2 different kinds of ships you're eligible to build.

Offensive Ship:
Cloud Port Level 2
Crystal 500g
Wood 1000g
Metal 1000g
Lord Level 2
Parts - Airship Power System, Airship Fire System, Airship Center System
Time 2D 10H 44M 48S

Defensive Ship:
Cloud Port Level 2
Crystal 500
Wood 1000
Metal 1000
Lord Level 2
Parts - Airship Fire System, Airship Energy System, Airship Deck System
Time 2D 10H 44M 48S

Heavy Offensive:
Cloud Port Level 3
Crystal 25000
Wood 50000
Metal 50000
Lord Level 3
Parts - Heavy Airship Fire System, Heavy Airship Power System, Heavy Airship Center System
Time 4D 21H 29M 37S
  
Heavy Defensive Ships:
Cloud Port Level 3
Crystal 25000
Wood 50000
Metal 50000
Lord Level 3
Parts - Heavy Airship Fire System, Heavy Airship Energy System, Heavy Airship Deck System
Time 4D 21H 29M 37S

Also a special feature of Cloud Port is the Repair Flagship,
your hero must disband from the ship for it to be repairable.


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Enough about these big boy ships onto what they can be equipped with,
The selection screen for Ship Yards (from castle),


These emplacements go on your heroes flagship, not talking about the default light flagship
heroes start with but the custom ships you build at the Cloud Port, otherwise you won't have any
emplacement slots to set anything upon them. Air emplacements equip onto your
flagships while the land emplacements go onto your dock a.k.a. the cloud port.

Starting with the Air Emplacements from weakest to strongest:

Emplacement:
Ship Yard Level 1
Energy Reserve Level 1
Wood 40
Metal 40
Time 24M 28S*
Emplacement Type - Air Emplacement 3

Laternal Cannons:
Ship Yard Level 5
Denseness Level 5
Wood 120
Metal 120
Time 1H 13M 26S*
Emplacement Type - Air Emplacement 9

Charged Photon Cannons:
Ship Yard Level 10
Accuracy Level 7
Crystal 150
Time 1H 13M 26S*
Emplacement Type - Air Placement 9

Cutting Beam:
Ship Yard Level 15
Piercing Attack Level 8
Crystal 500
Wood 1000
Metal 1000
Time 1H 1M 40S*
Emplacement Type - Large Placement 18
Not Yet Build able, Requires Fortress/Sky Fortress' Flagships
* means this can be lessened from the skill "Cannon Assembly".

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Don't forget Land Emplacements from weakest to strongest:

Focused Beam:
Ship Yard Level 1
Wood 80
Metal 80
Time 48M 57S*
Emplacement Type - Land Emplacement 6

Charged Photon:
Ship Yard Level 5
Accuracy Level 3
Crystal 300
Time 2H 26M 52S*
Emplacement Type - Land Emplacement 12
* means this can be lessened from the skill "Cannon Assembly".


This is showing your options of flag ships you have got and the land defense which is your cloud port dock.

If I'm missing anything let me know and I'll adjust it, if not hope this helps and post the link to people that keep asking constantly.

[ Last edited by 420Anarchy at 7-24-2009 16:04 ]

420Anarchy

Cloud Port size on each upgrade -
Level 1:1000 Land Emplacements
Level 2:3000 Land Emplacements
Level 3:8000 Land Emplacements

Extra Details -
Level 1: 0% Fire Bonus
Level 2: 50% Fire Bonus
Level 3: 100% Fire Bonus
Each level raises cloud port emplacement damage by 50% extra.

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Flagship size (without emplacement parts) -
Light Flagship: 0
Normal Offensive: 1,500
Normal Defensive: 3,000
Heavy Offensive: 7,500
Heavy Defensive: 15,000

Statistics on Each Ship w/out Parts Attached -
Regular Offensive Flagship
Health - 90,000*
Air Emplacements - 1,500*
Defense - 600
Type - Heavy
Armor - 600
Speed - 60*
Weight - 1,000
Load - 1,000
Food Cost - 1,500/hour

Regular Defensive Flagship
Health - 90,000
Air Emplacements - 1,500*
Defense - 1,000*
Type - Heavy
Armor - 600
Speed - 40
Weight - 1,000
Load - 5,000*
Food Cost - 1,500/hour

Heavy Offensive Flagship
Health - 200,000*
Air Emplacements - 7,500*
Defense - 1,000
Type - Heavy
Armor - 1,000
Speed - 70*
Weight - 5,000
Load - 20,000
Food Cost - 7,500/hour

Heavy Defensive Flagship
Health - 200,000
Air Emplacements - 15,000*
Defense - 1,750*
Type - Heavy
Armor - 1,000
Speed - 50
Weight - 5,000
Load - 20,000*
Food Cost - 7,500/hour
* means it's capable of being higher with added Center System.

Side notes: Offensive flagships tend to be quicker and hold less emplacements as the defensive flagships but they have higher HP but less defense as the defensive ships.

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Attack Planes --> Battleships and Cruisers
Frigates --> Attack Planes
Battleships --> Frigates
Cruisers --> Emplacements and Flagships

Emplacement --> Attack Planes
Laternal --> Frigates
Charged Photon --> Battleships and Cruisers
Cutting Beam --> N/A

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If anybody knows any information I'm missing please let me know so I can make this guide cover everything on emplacements. Thanks!

[ Last edited by 420Anarchy at 7-24-2009 11:23 ]

Samdidliambo

Cutting Beam is listed as piercing type - equivalent to cruisers. It will almost certainly be most effective against emplacements and flagships (heavy armor).

Katilin

...Sometimes, when I see the username 420Anarchy, I get the urge to flame the hell out of you for plagarism. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaanyways...

This might not help, but, uh... the differences in offensive and defensive (regular) flagship in terms of stats.

Offensive Flagship:
90,000hp
1500 air emplacements (You already know this)
60 velocity (same as moving speed, really)

Defensive Flagship:
90,000hp
3000 air emplacements (You already know this)
40 velocity (same as moving speed, really)

Stats concerning food per hour, tonnage, amount of stuff it can hold, yada yada yada... are the same.

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These emplacements go on your heroes flagship, not talking about no default ship
but the custom ones you build at the Cloud Port, otherwise you won't have any
emplacement slots to set anything upon them. Air emplacements equip onto your
flagships while the land emplacements go onto your dock a.k.a. the cloud port.

Okay, we both know that you can't build emplacements on light flagships, but this paragraph... um... seems a bit unclear to me, because "heroes flagship" can literally mean any flagship because heroes can board any flagship that isn't in repair or constructing emplacements. Might wanna stress that, too, since it's a common question XD

...You know this, too, but you can actually decrease the time needed to build each and EVERY emplacement by researching the military tech skill Cannon Assembly by 5% per level under the Military Institute. For the record, formula is:

[(0.95^n) - 1] * 100%

Or FVCKU69's formula, which is simply 0.95^n, both where n is your current Cannon Assembly level.

420Anarchy

I'll add the food consumption and all the other statistics later, need some sleep first and will also clear the whole hero flagship part so it's more clear for users. But I don't think I'll add a list of build times for each Cannon Assembly level cause that will be a huge list.. But I'll add on that Cannon Assembly lessons the time per level. Thanks for your input on the issue.

Not plagiarism if I am FVCKU69 a.k.a. 4Anarchy20 (even though I can't use that account) .

Katilin

Uh, no. That's not what I meant. I meant just add that Cannon Assembly affects emplacement build time, not provide a list XD

And yeah, I know. I just get the urge to because you're using another account XD

Declipsing

Heavy defensive starts with around 15k emplacement slots.

420Anarchy

Thanks, any other mistakes or suggestions are welcomed.

mexmer

you forgot to add, that cloudport (dock) level 2 gets 50% bonus to damage and level 3 get 100% bonus to damage (that means, it will have same firepower, as double amount of emplacement, tho' defense will stay)

also, you are missing hp value for flags (i can't logon now, to check the values). while dock has 0 hp, flags have HP (plus off flag can get HP from part), and they act as fodder (meat shield)

420Anarchy

Thanks, added the cloud port part and added better statistics of flagships and it's still a work in progress but it should be finished real shortly.