Amateur Raiding Guide

Amateur Raiding Guide
Recommended for Amateurs->Pros. Not recommended once above Officer-Bogatyr Level.

It is important for established factions to assert their dominance in their servers. It's fun to have to rally together to beat a massive homebase. If one is an established faction in a server with few, it's a good idea to conduct raids early and often to keep people from growing too strong.

In general one should use a cloaker to preemptively scout targets. Go to the largest secondary faction you can easily put down, and scout them. They have a new battleship midway through construction? Bring yours, plus several escorts and put it down before it's off the ground. Do this to as many factions as possible. You run the risk of making many enemies, but players who don't suffer will probably want to join you and more enemies = more fun in a game of warfare.

The best possible targets are factions without home bases. If a server has a hegemon or several superpower factions (relative terms considering low general population) many smaller 1-5 man factions will decide to not have home bases. This is a move to opt for stealth as their base would not show up on the faction hub, however, in the end they will be the least lucky of any, because once they're found, many people will be after them. Since they have no home, everything can be taken or destroyed. They are always found out and always destroyed. If you're thinking about doing this, don't. Just deal with occasional raids, and remember to dock your ships.