Hi

After my last complaiint, about furstration and wanting to leave thegame, some peopel where  kind enough to give me some adviice.  Most of themm aidd to send feets with resources on exxpiditioiin when goinig of line for the niight or when off line forlong perioids.  I tried to take that advice and here is the result:

4/08 fleet lost in battle with a pirate.  Result : lost 1.025.000 metal,  1.000.000 minerals and 1.000.000 vespene, lost also 40 devourers, 30 defilers, 30 dreadlisks and 45 lurkers

9/08 my fleet meets an no owned flet and there iis agaiin abattle, I loose: 725.000 metal,  500.000 minerals and 500.000 vespene, lost also 25 devourers, 25 defilers, 25 dreadlisks and 40 lurkers

15/08 fleet lost in a black hole.  Again I loose : lost 1.00.000 metal,  1.000.000 minerals and 1.000.000 vespene, lost also 30 devourers, 25 defilers, 25 dreadlisks and 35 lurkers

So thiis iis also not helping me much.

I really don't understand it, am I  playing so wrong?  Or do I have so much bad luck?  I am realy trying but I can't get a big fleet or a higher level.

pannylait,

you NEVER EVER let expeditions where you saved resources or fleet run to the end. You ALWAYS recall them before they finish. This way you will never get a result from those expeditions but a saved fleet + res.

hey Tii,

thanks for the response,  why doens't anyone told me that?   I hope it wil work from now on

It's not a solution. Sometimes the fleet dies earlier. I know many such cases.

Jhwh,

Expedition for saving the fleet can be safe if you know how to execute it in a safe way.
Recall your fleet from expedition At Least 24hrs BEFORE the panned end of it.
No fleet dies earlier than 24hrs before the planned end of expedition.

pannylait,
Unfortunately, your tutor did not spend enough time with you to introduce you to safe early steps.
I am certain that you have missed many other very useful features that there exist (e.g. colonization insides, planets' features, many many numbers and mathematical expressions around that none invested time to explain you).

This happens to many players... it is a pitty!

I know people who lost fleet, although they had  almost a week to return.

Jhwh, 
Been a year in here, and never heard that before... please share the people who lost their fleet. 
I want to examine the case.

I just recently let the expedition run all the way to the end by accident two time in a row. The first time I wound up capturing a Xerg fleet and a bunch of resources. The second time I found 60k resources. Not sure if I just got lucky or what, I thought for sure letting expedition going to end ment certain death. First group had 6 science vessels, second group had none. My expedition is level 4.