Hey 
 If you have problems with survival then kill Keller as fast as you can,  then dominators will stop disturbing.  About his damage... Dont get  around near him. When you see that he jumps to hole, follow him and dont  change trajectory then hole will never close. So you can jump into hole with full health.
 
 About problems with money, Im sure there is 1 good way - commerce  (mostly luxury). Drugs and jail will not give you much money, with  luxury you can get them much faster. I hope you know how to get starting  capital? When you are starting game, pick training for beginners. You  can get money from saling technics (right after you complated mission  with medicaments). Technics appear about 2 months, cost is constant, you  can buy it with 64 cr and sale with 90 cr. In end you will get  10000-30000 cr depends of how fast you acted with trade. After it you can do not finish training if you want. Next stage is killing Keller.
 
 Missions isnt really good for money, but you can take some missions if  there are 3 pirates in system or 2 pirates which are attacking somebody.  Not much financial help but good chance for artifact.

first i think peleng pirate or fereyan mercenery is best starting race (beacuse of missile launcher)
 second i realy dont know how to make money at the start because there is  no mission(the best way i found is to use that artifact to call keller  army in another dominator system then use a camouflage and loot  everything)
 

starting race is normal. But some players pick gaalian (dealer). He hasnt rockets but has some other advantages.
With artifact which call kelleroids is good idea. But also explore uninhabited planets. Sometimes its very useful.

Ofc you may do not kill Keller, but game is harder if hes alive. I think that killing is best way for you.

another question it seems i can force the game to go up in technology  (from what i read), is that depends on my total cr (equipment + money)?
 

Nope, equipment and money affects to equipment or artefacts which can be  founded on unhabited planets (not sure about money, but equipment  affects for sure). If you have good equipment then you can find 100% of  items which were generated from start, if you have bad equipment then  you will found fuel tank instead of expensive artefacts and expensive  equipment (As I know).
 
 

   how do u know dominators have high tech equipment? i mostly look to  their armor and shield i think one with high shield and armor probably  have highest tech i ask this question beacuse for me weapon of choice is  vertix or if i have lots of micro modle imm9000 (seems to me withough  any thing vertix have highest damage but with good equipment and lots of  micro fragment do more damage)                                                                                                                                           
 

What version of sr2 you have? Its important.
 
 If you have not old version then cheat shift+ctrl+Vertix will show galactic tech  level. There are 8 levels of galactic technology. (1-8 or A-H). first  level - A, second - B .... 8th - H. When you type cheat for Vertix, game  gives to you 5 Vertixes where you can see that level. Dont forget to  load clear save after that =)
 So these levels are important if you are playing for hight result. When  galactic has 4th level (D), you can drop multi-resonator from dominator  after kill. 6th (F) level allows to drop Vertix from dominator. I dont  remember what level you need for dropping IMHO-9000, probably its 5th  (E).
 If you have first versions of game (like 1.0) then I dont know how to know galactic level except using trainer.
 
 

another question it seems i can force the game to go up in technology

Hmmm I cant say that you can directly do it. Speed of Technology's evolution depends of amout of planets. Look to amount of industrial planets, if you have many industrial planets then evolution goes faster.. As you understand, when you have more than 3 systems all types of dominators attacking systems. When its 3 or lower - only Keller attacks systems. So for 200% difficulty you cant get many industrial planets. So for greater speed of evolution your task is generate many indistrial planets from start and dont let dominators occupy systems with them. Why only industrial? Becouse equipment appears faster on that planets.

If you want know more about all that mechanism... Every planet has his own technic level (also from 1 to 8). levels of planets are rising during game, mostly its random process. But for industrial planets its higher, for agrarian lower. Summary all planet's levels make overall level (galactic technic level, as I told already). Planets with high level has better equipment in shop. You can know personal planet's level by using trainer only. theoretical its possible without trainer, but harder.

So if you decided play good, maybe some tricks will help you, if you dont know them. As i told already, its cheat-code Vertix, which shows to you galactic level. Cheat shift+ctrl+drop will show equipment of nearest ship. Very useful when you are trying to get weapon or something from dominator. You can see if that think matches to you. For example if you see good weapon in dominator and drop his equipment, you can compare galactic level and weapon's level. If weapon's level is higher than galactic level then you will never get it without cheats.

Heh its for new versions of game where you can know galactic level and equipment level easy by using cheat-codes, for old versions you can judge about equipment level only from their characteristic. And dont forget load clear save if you used cheat-code, if you wanna have fair final result.
Also if you explore all unhabited planets, maybe more easy to use trainer for it, its much faster than exploring randomly all planets. Also you can see all equipment in galactic, levels of planets... Precautionary measures are same like after using cheat-codes, you should download old clear save.

EDIT: sorry, I saw that you have 2.0 after I wrote whole post Im too lazy to edit it after that =) By the way, do you use protect from SNK?

wow lots of information i realy appriciate it thanks i love when i know what i am doing
so u mean its better to wait so i have better equipment then exploring unhabitat planets? to get better equipment, artifacts?

I won't recommend exploring those planets before 3303 or better 3304 or you will find nothing apart from micromodules and very low-quality equipment. Don't forget to explore each planet complently since each of them can contain red modules. :-P

what is protect from SNK?

Nevermind then. :-)

another thing that i just noticed in my last game is that gallian seems to overpower any other race or maybe its beacuse i always started as a gallian merchant? usually their warship are way more powerfull than other races in term of protection and weaponry. is that why people start as gallian so their homeworld have better protection?

True, they are first in technologies (earlies rockets etc) and gallian merchant start is usually my choice.

hmm another question: is there anyway to kill keller completly (not sending him away) withought sience station program?

No way, also it's impossible to kill him in space (except for some glitch I'm not familiar with).

If you have first versions of game (like 1.0) then I dont know how to know galactic level except using trainer.

Galactic and planetary levels were introduced somewhere early 2006 (1.5 or 1.4?)

When  galactic has 4th level (D), you can drop multi-resonator from dominator  after kill.

Fourth level is a critical stage in game. Beforehand buy 5 (more -- better) camofluages on pirate bases (before Keller crushes them :-)) and explore all the systems nearby for urgants with multi-resonators (or how they are named in you version). Trick is: use dominator program which causes dominators to drop equipment. Each day different items are dropped, so just reload if you don't like drops. Be aware: after using programs camofluage fades (or just stops working for dominators in this system, I forgot). So get 4-5 multis, upgrade them and you should liberate system solo. That's why 200% game is still very elementary -- most of average players get those multis by 3304 and won't ever face with difficulties.

Same trick for Vertixes and IMHO9000 but they won't drop after using programs, only by killing. So use the programs and be sure your enemy has no equipment apart from engine, fuel tank and a weapon, then kill it on different days. Sooner or later (you may need several months :-)) you will get your overwhelming deathbringer.

Damn long time with no practice in english, I must look like an idiot :-P

if its elementry i realy like to know what game on hard is realy hard in your view (i mean rpg games)

I don't play games much for now, but you can open my profile and see my results. Just playing sometimes since release.

148 is minimal weight for Vertixes and 108 for IMHO respectively. Those are so ultimate weapons so you can pick modules not for damage/range but ones to reduce the size (one yellow module reduces size by 40% at no cost and the second one reduces size by 50% with some little damage penalties).

problem is, usually in first 3-4 month only 2 system remain for good guys

Actually, Blazer and Terron both won't attack 3 last systems remaninig, but Keller alone will. Little hint: do not contune training quests after trading medicaments, so Keller won't be able to attack your starting system AND the second training system where you fight with a robot by the middle of 3301.

definitly not

I still don't like my speech. :-)

Yeah saving bases is a hard task but if you saved Buisness Center you can just buy what you want (and then allow Keller to destroy bases you won't need soon ;-)).

I don't play games much for now, but you can open my profile and see my results. Just playing sometimes since release.

glup....  50k score is too much and i see u probably pick the sience version of uniqe ship most likely to beat everyone faster :P and i suppose killer (pirate uniqe ship) was too much problem to be worth it?

also i like to know u guys difficulty preferance

Actually, Blazer and Terron both won't attack 3 last systems remaninig, but Keller alone will. Little hint: do not contune training quests after trading medicaments, so Keller won't be able to attack your starting system AND the second training system where you fight with a robot by the middle of 3301.

eh in my test game i just sit there doing nothing and end turns now i know why i survived for 1.5 year :P LOL

Цитата: omega от 05.06.2012 15:54:15

definitly not

I still don't like my speech. :-)

but i like it lol :P

Yeah saving bases is a hard task but if you saved Buisness Center you can just buy what you want (and then allow Keller to destroy bases you won't need soon ;-)).

well i actually want to destroy bussiness center so i dont need to pay back my debt :P well it seems its out of option now

Hehe Buldoser is just experienced player like some others. They consider 200% isnt hard and want more agressive dominators. By the way, versions 1.5-1.8 were really harder than 2.0, because in 2.0 some of equipment has power-ups. I also sure you will say same thing if you will beat 200% few times. Especially if you will play with vertixes

well i played with vertix but in version 1.0 of game i just made the 22 hull amor 51% shield and go to the middle of dominators and kill them all with my five vertixes its why i think vertix drop of dominators is so heavy :P lol when i get reboot i waste about 2 hour trying to use alarm signal to drop vertixes then i searched the net and find out that it wont drop
btw any of u guys played king bounty? that game was very similar to this game(i mean the global design of the gameplay is similar) and i loved that one i even thinked designer of both game are the same then i find out that its just their publisher :P

lol i am sooo lucky started 200% difficulty find a rapid housing II 274 space with four slot weapons (sadly it only have 4 armor) lots of lucky trade good engine and still i have 40k cr :O but i dont like to raise my equipment price too much it make repairing too much pricy so i still stick with low price equipment except engine (its what make me survive :P) and its till year 1 :O in top of that sheat system have 3 industrial (+bussiness center) and kraha 1 industrial planets LOL perfect game :P

but i dunno what should i do with bases how to fortify them, is there anyway to increase their armor?

Talk to Base-administrator, choose "enhance/improve base". Pay money. U may divide your EXP with Base, increasing its parameters. Also U may install any equipment (including artifacts) on Base.