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Noble House Hotels & Resorts is a privately held hotel ownership and management company in business for more than 30 years. With a philosophy that emphasizes "location, distinction and soul," the Seattle, Wash., based company owns and manages boutique hotels and resorts spanning the four coastal corners of America, including the newly refurbished Riviera Palm Springs in California, Little Palm Island Resort & Spa in the Florida Keys, The Edgewater in Seattle, and Hotel Viking in Newport, R.I. It also recently added the Pelican Grand Beach Resort in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Lodging Editor Len Vermillion recently talked about the company's growth plans with Founder and Chairman Patrick Colee.
1. Len Vermillion: You've recently added Pelican Grand Beach Resort. What does this addition mean for Noble House and how does it complement your portfolio? Also, what plans do you have for the resort?
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: We're going to be remodeling it next winter. Then, the following year, we are going to be adding meeting space to it and a spa. We took on this property because if you know Fort Lauderdale at all you know that most of the hotels are across the street from the beach. Well, we are right on the beach. It's a wonderful building with very large rooms. When we are finished remodeling it, we'll have an upgraded pool, upgraded restaurants, the meeting space, and the spa. We don't believe anyone will be able to compete with us there.
2. LV: You have plans to add more properties. Can you say anything about those?
: Unfortunately, I'm not at liberty to talk about the ones that we are working on right now. Our goal is to expand into areas such as New York, Washington, D.C, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Those are the areas we are focusing on. Plus, we've been trying to get a hotel for a long time in South Beach.
One of the things about our properties in Florida is they have performed very well. The Watercolor Inn in Santa Rosa Beach is the number one family resort in Florida by Travel & Leisure. LaPlaya in Naples is the number one golf resort in Florida. Little Palm Island [Florida Keys] is the number one resort in Florida. Now we believe our hotel in Fort Lauderdale will be number one. We are ultimately trying to find the number one hotel in South Beach. That's a little harder to do. We'd be happy if we can be top three there.
3. LV: How do you think the resort sector is performing compared to other sectors?
: They're all up significantly. The Florida hotels are up in excess of 20 percent. We are having good growth. We believe we'll be able to grow real fast. We never intended to be a brand, though. One of the advantages we have is that we have a restaurateur's attitude toward food and beverage and we make a profit in our spas. Because we have actual restaurateurs running food and beverage we've been able to have higher margins than probably most people who are dealing with the high-end.
4. LV: You're known for emphasizing 'location, distinction and soul.' Can you explain?
: All we've ever done is go into properties where we can own the market—be number one or two. We've always said we want to be the living room of the local community. We try to take an attitude of not being another box. We want a location and concept that reflects the history and culture—the food—of the community.
When you stay at one of our hotels you have an experience that represents that community. All of our hotels are totally different. We like to think they represent the character of the community.
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The Internet allows individuals to do things they generally wouldn't have time for, but it also offers people new ways to do things already commonly present in their lives. If you're looking for a cheaper or faster way to get stuff done, do your online research, and you'll most likely find an Internet-based way to do it!

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The LA Times published a great article about the folly of using administrative costs as *the* indicator for judging NGOs. It's nice to see a mainstream newspaper write about this:
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I agree that overhead is, at it's very best, a blunt instrument for judging NGOs and charities.
But what would be better ones? What things could the average person see and get and understand without a significant investment in learning about the aid world? Or maybe that's the point - that there is no simple, quick, easy thing to look at?
Unfortunately, I don't think that there's currently one "simple, quick, easy thing" for the public to look at and judge a charity, but I feel like the movement toward increasing transparency and making more robust, comparable, and complex info about aid org operations available (ie via mechanisms like the International Aid Transparency Initiative and the Open Aid Partnership) could facilitate this. Of course, there needs to be a 'next step' to make this info into a "simple, quick, easy thing" that the average person could look at and understand easily, but I think making the data available is an important first step in that direction.
I think it should be a combination of factors and I am more inclined to want to work for a charity who has their (for U.S. based NGOs) their 990 forms acessible on their website in addition to an annual report. I think this whole issue goes back to the whole issues raised when Invisible Children became the charity du jour. Most people take what they are spoonfed without doing any research and if someone well known/famous says donate to "x" NGO/charity people will do without a thought or question.
To show just how terrible using admin costs as the indicator for judging NGOs, consider the recent case of HEDAC (Help Eliminate Disease and Addiction Canada). Its charitable status was recently revoked by the Canada Revenue Agency; in its release on the revocation, CRA said:
"For its participation and tax receipting abilities, the Organization received approximately $3.5 million in cash. Of this amount, the majority was paid to the tax shelter promoters as fundraising fees, to related third party companies as administrative fees and used for the personal benefit of the directors. The Organization devoted a mere $138,000 on its own charitable purposes." [My emphasis added.]
Yet in 2010, HEDAC was proudly trumpeting that it had been ranked the second best charity in Canada in terms of money going towards the cause by a financial magazine. http://hedac-ca.blogspot.ca/
I'm not saying that all charities with low admin rates are fraudulent, of course that's not the case, but if we're looking at admin costs alone, we make it easier to miss fraudulent activity.
More on this particular case here.
Woah, I hadn't heard about this. That's insane and infuriating, but a super powerful story to illustrate of why admin costs are not a good indicator. Thanks for pointing us to it!
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She could have been describing any number of distressed cities, but few municipalities in Pennsylvania can match the short- and long-term population decline of Chester. With 36,854 residents, according to last year's census, the city shrank to a size it hasn't seen in nearly a century.
The census went beyond that overall snapshot to gather related information, which the Daily Times has used to analyze Chester at the neighborhood level and, in some cases, more closely.
The emerging picture is reflected in the observations of residents interviewed throughout the city and it reveals some recent trends government officials face as they attempt to spur revitalization:
- All but one Chester census tract lost people during the 1990s as the city's population dropped 12 percent. The rest of Delaware County grew a modest 3 percent.
- Even with a push by the government and private charities for more homeownership, Chester's rate declined to 48 percent from 53 percent. The homeownership rate for the remainder of the county is 75 percent.
- The loss of people to deaths or relocation -- with few, if any, buyers for their homes -- has pushed the citywide residential vacancy rate to 14 percent from 12 percent in 1990. That is more than triple the rate for the rest of Delaware County.
The increase in vacancies has not escaped the notice of Purnell, 64, a retired Chester Upland School District nurse.
Of some 1,400 homes in the census tract that contains Purnell's rowhouse, nearly 200, or 13 percent, are vacant. That trails the citywide rate by a point, but it's a big increase from 1990, when about 100 homes in the census tract, or 7 percent, were empty.
Purnell attributed the trend, in part, to adult children reluctant to take over their parents' homes. "Many of the younger children have grown up and moved away," she said.
Her census tract lost 11 percent of its population in the 1990s.
A downward spiral
The continuing abandonment of housing and commercial properties is a difficult trend to reverse, according to one expert.
"It's not just that people want to get out, but even if you want to stay there's not much competitive housing product. The housing stock is relatively old, relatively small and relatively expensive to retrofit," said Jeremy Nowak, president of The Reinvestment Fund, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit that loans money to fight poverty and restore communities in the region.
Chester Mayor Dominic F. Pileggi said that since the 1950s the city's housing has become less marketable as people have "increased their reliance on automobiles and their demands for open space."
"The population decline isn't surprising because most people moved to Chester and wanted to live in a place where they could walk to work," Pileggi said. "The only way that Chester could have a population approaching its peak at the end of World War II would be again to have couples in many rowhouses living without cars."
"Probably our ideal size is 35,000 to 40,000 people, given the physical size of the city," the mayor said. "I think the population in Chester will be between 35,000 and 40,000 for the next generation."
David B. Thornburgh, executive director of the eastern division of the Pennsylvania Economy League, tied population decline in the 1990s to the loss of industrial jobs that began in the 1950s.
"If you had to pick something that starts the ball rolling downhill, once those jobs disappear and that tax base starts to move out of there, you lose the funds for schools and lose the middle-class families for whom schools are very important," Thornburgh said. "Then things start to snowball."
In Chester, the snowball has come to include a crime rate and a school system that make the city a nearly impossible sell to outsiders, according to one longtime resident and community activist.
"The image that's been projected of Chester through the media is that Chester is the most crime-ridden and impoverished city in the state, with the drop-out rate, the drug trafficking, the homicides and all that. And there is some truth to it," said George R. "Bob" Johnson, 71, who worked in the 1960s as an organizer for the Chester Home Improvement Project, a civil-rights and job-training group.
"Anybody that lives in Newtown Square or Paoli or Wayne, they may come here to go to Widener or to work for the government, but they are not going to move to Chester," said Johnson, a retired Sunoco Inc. merchant seaman.
At a recent community meeting, Johnson called on city officials to involve county, state and federal authorities in the struggle against drug-related crime in Chester.
"It ain't exactly on my doorstep, but it is on the next corner. The police know it. The housing authority knows it. They're only out there for one purpose: It's a drug corner. And it's one of many throughout the city," he said.
"At my age, I feel safe. I still got a permit to carry a weapon. I'm still known in the community. But I'm not completely foolhardy. There are some places I won't go at certain times at night," Johnson said. "I know a lot of people who are terrified and won't come out a the door at night. It's not just old people. Young people, too."
"There's a lot of fear, especially among the elderly," Purnell said. "Many of their homes have been broken into and their families have been victims of violent crime. They see things going on and they don't say anything."
Johnson's Concord Avenue rowhouse sits in what was the city's most populous census tract in 1950, a central neighborhood within walking distance of the once-vibrant downtown. The tract lost 16 percent of its population in the 1990s and now has less than a quarter of the 10,200 people it held in 1950.
The remaining homes now belong to the children and grandchildren of Johnson's contemporaries, many of whom bought properties around the time he did -- 1958.
Johnson, who with his wife, Helen, raised nine children there, believes the character of the people has changed as much as the size of the population has changed.
"Their children don't have the same morals," he said of the generations that followed his. "They have different values.
They're not as committed to the community, to their families. Everyone is out for themselves."
A few blocks away, another homeowner felt differently about her neighbors, but no less pessimistic about the city's future.
"It's a tight-knit neighborhood," said West Eighth Street resident Renee Douglass, 52. "Here, neighbors check on neighbors."
Her corner lot runs along Lloyd Street, one of the main routes through a census tract that has lost more than a third of its population since 1970. Most of the decline took place before 1980.
A 1967 Chester High School graduate, Douglass said many of the homeowners in her neighborhood "are the original neighbors," people she knew as a young woman before she moved away in 1978.
Douglass saw her career as an administrator flourish at three Chester County hospitals. She and her husband, Michael, raised two children, now grown, in Downingtown. They returned to the city in 1997 and moved in with her elderly mother, Caroleice Dean, to care for her.
"Would I pick Chester to come back to if I had a choice? No. But after all she had done for me, that was the least I could do," Douglass said. Dean died last year and the Douglasses don't plan to stay long-term, she said.
"For somebody new who got a job close to here, I don't think they would come into Chester to live," said Douglass, a billing-systems manager at Chester County Hospital in West Chester.
"Just Wednesday night (Dec. 12) I had to dive into my kitchen because I heard gunshots. It's definitely not safe," she said. "We have kids who come from other areas of the city to hang out at (the playground at) Eighth and Lloyd ..From what I can see there's nothing for kids to do."
By "kids," Douglass said she meant "young adults, in their 20s, just hanging, burning up tanks of gas going around the block."
Douglass said she believes city government can improve conditions.
"They've got to do a better job with crime and drugs. The police need to be more visible, other than when you have to call them. And not just to do drive-bys when you call ..I used to go all over Chester before I moved away. Now there's just some places I wouldn't go for nothing."
Mayor Pileggi pointed out that crime in Chester declined significantly in the late 1990s.
The police department reported 86 serious violent and property crimes per 1,000 people last year, down from 148 per 1,000 people in 1996. In the rest of the county, the rate dropped from 24 serious crimes per 1,000 people to 23 per 1,000.
At a community meeting this month Pileggi acknowledged the difficulty of fighting drug-related crime in the city.
He was encouraging people to use an anonymous police tip line: "People were coming out of the woodwork with stories about how 'I have a terrorist in my backyard,'" the mayor said, referring to calls the line received after the FBI's questioning of Irshad Shaikh, the city's health commissioner. "But you never get a call, 'I got someone dealing cocaine across the street.'"
In a subsequent interview, he said: "We are aggressively dealing with crime. We've done it and we'll continue to do it."
Hitting the road
The progress hasn't made a strong enough impression on Renee Douglass. "As far as a family moving, I couldn't say, 'Oh, I want to go buy a house in Chester,'" she said. "As soon as my husband and I retire, we're out of here."
Rodney and Charlotte Reed could beat the Douglasses to the real-estate agent's door. They're renovating their Edgmont Park row home and may not stick around to enjoy the completed work.
Said Rodney Reed: "We're going to fix it up and get our house the way we like it and probably in a year or so we'll do what everyone else does -- sell."
Edgmont Park's census tract effectively held its population steady through the 1990s. It's one of four tracts that cover the city's northeast corner. Together, the four grew 4 percent in the decade and now hold nearly a third of Chester's population.
But Rodney Reed, 59, identifies more with those who have moved away. He and his wife bought their house on West 21st Street in 1997.
"Most of the people who are leaving are like myself. I went to Temple. My wife is a teacher," he said. "We can move. We can pick up and buy a nice house somewhere else."
Charlotte Reed teaches special education at a middle school in Maryland. The couple owns an art sales firm based in their home.
"Here, you can't even sit outside in the summertime," said Rodney Reed. "The kids are out in the street with all kinds of filth and we have no protection."
So in May he helped organize -- and serves as president of -- the Edgmont Park Community Association to address crime and related issues in the neighborhood.
"The biggest problem here that we think creates the crime is Section 8," the federal rental-voucher program. "These are people who come in that don't take care of their houses, their kids are disrespectful, some don't go to school. It's not all Section 8s. We have some who take care of their houses, who are conscientious."
None, however, have joined the community association, he said. "They're not that conscientious."
Edgmont Park's census tract has traditionally contained many more homeowners than renters, but the share of occupied units inhabited by renters rose to 34 percent last year, propelled at least in part by a citywide increase in Section 8 vouchers.
"People can't sell their house so what they do is rent it out, and you know what happens when there are so many renters," Reed said.
Edgmont Park once claimed a homeownership rate of 90 percent, the mayor said. "The forces that are driving more rentals there are forces we're concerned with," said Pileggi, who worked with Reed's group to have public trash cans installed.
He blames speculators who don't maintain their properties and care less about "the quality of life in the neighborhood than receiving a rent check every month," Pileggi said. Additionally, renters don't have an ownership stake in the community "and that dynamic is generally negative," he said.
Neighborhood-specific data was unavailable, but the number of Section 8 vouchers issued by the Chester Housing Authority grew 26 percent, to 1,230, between 1996 and 2000.
While the city's homeownership rate hasn't dropped below 50 percent since 1940, it has never moved far above that mark. Even at Chester's census population peak of 66,039 in 1950, 49 percent of its occupied housing units were rentals.
Hope on the river
Despite many demographic trends running against Chester, some things are already occurring that experts say can help improve its economic and social health.
One project, in particular, holds promise because of its analogue in similarly impoverished cities, according to Christopher B. Leinberger, a land-use expert and urban redeveloper who has worked in Baltimore, Seattle and Denver, among other places.
"Chester is in a small group of cities within metropolitan areas that face similar problems," Leinberger said. "The only examples of those cities that have begun to turn around are Newark and Jersey City. How they did it was to focus on the waterfront" with high-rise housing.
Plans for Rivertown, a projected $350 million redevelopment of the former Chester Station power plant and surrounding properties, include some residential units. Leinberger said high-income and upper-middle-class housing there was the right place to start.
"It's all coming from the waterfront," he said. "When you have a river, that's the place to start."
Leinberger said before housing can be developed, the city should stage festivals of culture and entertainment to draw into Chester "people who are afraid or who think it's shot."
Next comes "permanent, urban entertainment," he said. "It has to be densely built and walkable. The suburban model will fail. They should learn from Rittenhouse Square."
"With that you begin to see demand for housing, upper-middle-class primarily," Leinberger said. "Then those are the bosses and the bosses will make the big decisions where the offices will be. Until you get the offices, you're not going to get the jobs."
Count Johnson, the old activist, and Reed, the new civic leader, among the skeptics in Chester.
Johnson believes broad changes are needed to make the city a desirable place to live. City residents, not looking to help from outside, must make those changes themselves.
"I don't see the city government doing that, simply because of their actions in the past. I don't see the public being educated enough to be involved," he said. "I don't see the population going back up."
"We're not going to get anybody in here," Reed said. "Who's going to move in here and say, 'I'm going to send my kid to Chester schools?' That would be totally crazy, outrageous."
"You know, since the association started there has been a lot of improvement," he added. "Kids were really disrespectful of the elderly in the neighborhood. People see we are trying to do something. Plus, the mayor is with us in our fight. I really believe he loves the city and wants to revitalize it. But is there hope for this city? The only hope I see is if people become active participants in what is going on. It doesn't seem to me that people have made that a priority."


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Well, as the title suggests, which is the best? As I have been reading these forums I get the impression that people are just loving the guardians, saying that an advent fleet can stay alive forever with their aid. But I really disagree. The guardians just reduce the damage by 33%. The ships they are protecting still receives 67 % of the damage and slowly but definately are destroyd. Perhaps their destruction is delayed for some time, but not that much in my opinion.
The Hoshikos on the other hand replaces the hullpoints and can thus keep the ships they are supporting alive almost indefinately. And this is the big differenc, the Iconus can not protect its fleet from getting damage, the Hoshikos can.
I have played tons of battles with the TEC (using Hoshikos) coming out of the battle with no harm to the fleet (if I also use the Dunovs) but with the Advent several ships goes down in the process.
So my conclusion: Hoshikos really outwins the Iconus, by miles.
Looking forward to any comments!
I've been leaning strongly towards this same sentiment but in truth don't play Advent enough to see how effective Guardians are in different situations.
The Hoshiko is one of TEC's greatest early-game advantages. The Guardian, while nice, is also expensive, and soaks up damage rather than reducing/preventing/repairing.
But also remember that the Guardian can get the Repulsion ability, which can be incredibly useful in some situations. (of course Hoshikos can also get Demolition Bots...)
Guardians by themselves don't do much, you really need a mothership with it to keep the shields of both the guardians and your fleet up. Problem in competitive matches is keeping the Progen alive, though once you get repulse and with a lot of micro management it may be possible.
Guardians used to have a lot of love for two very simple reasons...
First, illuminators were the best damn ship in the game, and they could shoot from behind a repulsion field with impunity...anything other than LRFs can't outshoot the range of repulsion, meaning illuminators could hit the enemy while the enemy couldn't shoot back (unless kanraks or LRMs)...
Then illuminators were nerfed (thankfully)...and that whole strategy fell apart...
Second, dem bots got buffed, and now is very powerful....
So, not only did iconus guardians get seriously nerfed (indirectly), but hoshikos got seriously buffed...
In general, I think hoshikos are currently the best support ship in the game...
The Hoshiko is the best ship in the game. TEC absolutely needs these them to stay competative throughout the game. Fast healing, omni-directional demo-bots, and they're cheap.
Early-on it's the hoshiko hands down. Later it's the Iconus, hands down. The demo-bot change means the hoshiko stays on top for much longer than it used to, and combined with the general weakness of the faction Advent rarely lives to see the full potential of the Iconus anymore. However, if you play a large multistar where the Advent has free opportunity to get a fully mature fleet online and you'll feel the full power of the Iconus Guardian.
I don't know man...those dem bots can shut down entire fleets and unlike subverters without having to micromanage much...I mean, that's a full minute of no weapons and slow engines...50 of those things can shut down 300 (1200-1800 fleet supply?) ships for a minute and probably keep 100 shut down indefinitely...
It requires some good ship placement (so, some move orders) but that's about it, fire and forget ability with no real drawback...
I was trying to give an example where Advent would have opportunity to directly jump to their mature fleet. Obviously this isn't played for a reason.
Would still take Repulsion between the two of these abilities once fleets get large enough. Not belittling the hoshiko, it's an awesome unit, but the guardian does scale better.
Granted this type of scale happens usually only in SP as no MP game I've ever played is willing to go that long.
Would love to see the guardian given tweaks to make it more of a mid-game as well as late game player. Perhaps a slight change to Repulsion where it only slows all ships but violently throws and damages a set # of frigates.
Played on the custom map sol vs. orion. I played it as both advent and vasari. I was facing 9 lvl 4 computers (the one above hard) allied against me. I played first as advent. I proceeded to quickly expand and eco up and build some starbases on the star in close formation. I built as large of a fleet as I could. The enemy ships didn't take too long to start rolling in, and once they did it was a straight long term attrition battle. I did this strategy for both advent and vasari. Neutral acquisition early on was a similar pace between the races thanks to the abundant nearby neutrals, but colonizing all the neutrals was in the end about two times as fast with the vasari (giving the vasari a sizeable early chunk of extra resources).
Advent starbases, with meteor, are still a crappy starbase. Its laughable to even compare them to the orkulus starbase anyways, but my starbases at my home star (sol) were all destroyed relatively easily by the oncoming enemy forces.
I stalemated around mars for a long time as advent, but in the end the advent fleet had nowhere near the firepower to deal with the enemy fleet.
Thats right, not enough boom. I could survive anything, but my dps as a fleet overall was kinda pathetic, when compared to that of the vasari fleet. In the end the war of attrition was slowly beating back my forces and I called the game as a loss.
I decided to restart the next day with a vasari game using the same game perameters as before.
Vasari outclassed the advent easily. In the time I was able to put up one advent starbase on my home star, as vasari i had easily put 4 orkulus and had upgraded all of their health by 1 upgrade. The firepower of the vasari fleet was in the area of about 3-4 times that of the advent fleet, and i would NEVER lose a ship...where as advent I would always have to replace a small amount of ships in every engagement.
the vasari outclassed the advent so clearly, with the same exact start, facing the same types of enemies. I would say that the vasari fleet is about 2-3 times stronger then the endgame advent fleet given a rough capability estimate of the two fleets.
Naturally this estimate isn't just based upon the one trial above .
Depends on the fleet size we're talking about that they're fighting against. If we're around 500 command points of units, Orkulus is the god of starbases and even a small amount of healing makes it invulnerable. Once we start pushing over 1000, Orkulus loses its luster and can be bowled over by brute force and none of its upgrades will seriously help it. The transcencia, on the other hand, retains a powerful combat presence against any size of fleet and is only truly threatened by uplinked Ogrovs or massed bombers.
Depends on the faction you're against. Against TEC, I'd actually say that the Vasari are actually slightly inferior to Advent. The late-game Advent faction is, IMO, much better equipped to take down the TEC than the Vasari faction. If we're talking direct Advent vs Vasari, though then 2-3 times stronger is an understatement. Vasari absolutely murder Advent in the late-game.
This one baffles me a bit. Your playing against compy. So you know that they will just rush your starbase. So I guess it really would depend on how you upgraded. 4 Advent SB with Maxed Weapons, 2 w/maxed Meteor, 2 w/maxed mass disorient and then the rest of the points in Health really ought to be able to utterly annihilate thousands of command pts worth of ships... Especially if you have invested in some shield upgrades as well.
Mass Disorientation nullifies movement for all ships and weapons for all Frigs & Cruisers for 30 seconds. With 2 SB close together, you can chain them and keep most every frig and cruiser useless. Meteor can then bombard for 750 damage also repeating in a chain. I suppose after a long while the SB could run out of AM but by that point all 4 working together will have decimated several thousand pts worth of ships. If you have Disciple's aiding with Steal & Transfer AM, 4 Advent bases should be nearly invulnerable.
With that combo, as Darvin pointed out the only thing really to fear would be up-linked Ogrovs or massed bombers.
Truer words have not been spoken.
That only works if you can get the enemy to attack your starbases in the star's gravity well...but even so, a single upgraded starbase on a friendly planet can also fight off hordes of attackers if you have frigate and structure repair abilities.
Sareth referred specifically to defending his home star vs AI so I replied with a strategy that would pwn under those circumstances.
Guardians need too many variables to be effective: Shield regeneration, Vertgio and steal/transfer anti-matter from disciples.
Hoshikos need nothing to be effective. They just pawn while being the most offensive repair cruiser in the game. Nothing gets better than these babies.
As an advent player your job is to force your enemy into using light frigates and heavy cruisers by using the most effective early game units:
Defense vessels + Drone hosts backed by any number of mother-ships for shielding, rapture for vertigo and halcyon for push and aurora (Trinity +).
These units are bulky, hardened and can take a pounding from phase missiles. There comeback is also devasting on long range frigates and heavy and medium armor units.
It means you can safely research the shield branch and get your guardians to soak up even more damage.
Guardians are however stupid. Be sure to activate shield projection manually when you can. It will ensure victory even in the late game if you survive massive punishment by preventing damage with vertigo and shield projection.
People don't see it but the advent defense vessels is their most revered unit.
It is unfair to compare guardians and hoshikos.
It should be guardians vs Overseers
The + from guardians is 1 guardian can protect the entire fleet from more damage provided your in range of the shield bubble.
As an advent player your job is to force your enemy into using light frigates and heavy cruisers by using the most effective early game units:Defense vessels + Drone hosts backed by any number of mother-ships for shielding, rapture for vertigo and halcyon for push and aurora (Trinity +).
Drone hosts early is not a very good investment I think because a halfway decent opponent will be building some LF anyway vs Advent, and LF melt carrier cruisers. And if you go for 2 Hostility / Drone Hosts as soon as you can that'll seriously eat into your initial tier 0 spam advantage. And if you have the freedom to get 3 caps and a good number of flak, you're already past your most vulnerable period as Advent.
It really depends on what size game you're playing, because that determines how far you are from your closest enemy's HW, which determines how much you can tech/fleet/eco up before you have to fight.
Its impossible to get drone hosts early on. Im neva clear wen i say things. U have to use flak+desciple, , flak+ illums then add drone hosts. I'll upload a simple replay to show u all this.
U see once u force vasari to make light frigates or heavy cruisers it means less phase missiles and shielding comes into play. Objective achieved.
So basically...defense+illuminators+bombers?
Which is more or less how it is for all 3 factions to be honest...once you get to the mid-game, all the Vasari player has to do is match your defense+illuminators+bombers with his sentinels+kanraks+bombers...the difference is, the Vasari fleet has phase missiles and a stronger economy behind it...additionally, it has better FFing potential for killing SBs and caps...
I think I get what he is saying: you use flak+LF, the opponent sees this and counters, then you switch to flak+illums, the opponent sees this and counters, then get drone hosts. It's sort of a gambit. I think the idea is that you dont want them to ever use kanraks so you make them have to pick up other ships and fall way behind in the LRF race.
I don't see how this really accomplishs that though. How does flak+LF cause the opponent to stay away from kanraks? flak are tough, but if you have both flak and LF, and the opponent has an equal supplys' worth of kanraks, I think they would win, no?
Another thing is that the enemy will likely have a good number of Assailants anyway for their main purpose of fighting off (and killing) capital ships... regardless of the Advent fleet composition.
Couple of quick questions about the Hoshikos:
1. How many ships are affected by a single Hoshiko? And do Hoshiko repairs stack? I thought I read somewhere that it didn't but I was just checking.
2. Can Dem Bots be micro-managed in the sense of picking out a particular group of targets to affect?
The effect lasts 15 seconds, and the Hoshiko can activate it once every 3 seconds, so it can affect a total of five ships at a time. Hoshikos do not stack for effect on a single ship.
The biggest reason you have multiples of hoshikos is so that you don't run into antimatter issues, and they can't simply be picked off. If you have 4 or 5 hoshikos, it's easy to snipe them out first. If you have 15 or 20, not so much, and you probably won't run out of antimatter any time soon either.
Yes, but the autocast behavior was improved substantially a few versions ago and you really shouldn't need to micromanage it unless you're rationing antimatter.
This is just the thing to be doing when you see an enemy with Heavy Cruisers and you happen to have spare Hoshikos.
You do need a motehrship to get most out of guardians. But Hoshikos are just godly. They are benchmark for support IMO.
Guardians are-in every sense of the word-high maintenance. In a firefight between defense vessels and assailants where you need to micro there movements between enemy lines the guardians need not be in that fleet but just near by to turn on shield projection while channeling. There basically static units in their role on the battlefield and should be treated as such.


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