I have heard so many different ways to do this and I even have my own thoughts but I thought I'd ask you all.

They are in your door. The Planets are maxed H's. What settings do you use and why...?

Would you use a different setup for a limited turn game as compared to an unlim?
Would you use different settings if death delay is enabled?

These guys have scripts that automatically adjust the cannons according to available fuel ore and what your target may be.

Ok, that's fine but the scripts are still going to need to know what to do.

We're back to the same questions. ...

And that depends upon your goal, the strength of the opposition and the ship edits.

This isn't a black & white question. But, since IG's are ineffective unless there's fuel ore, I always keep at least one cannon set off on sector and low on atmos, maxed shields and figs. Keep plenty of sector figs above the planet as well.

I use this spreadsheet to determine the settings.

Angoth's Cannon Spreadsheet

Or simply set yourself up a test game, tedit your door exactly as it is in your live game, then try to bust it down yourself.

I edited Helix's cannon spreadsheet to also include the atmos cannons.

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It's not my spreadsheet and you would have to do settings for 2 different kinds of atmos cannons (classic and mbbs)

The reason no atmos cannons are in the spreadsheet are because the point is to keep your opponents out of the sector completely.

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Atmos is MBBS odds, and of course you want to keep them out of the sector, and conserve fuel for IG. Should they happen to get in and attempt to land, I want to take them out on the first attempt. So, that's why I edited the spreadsheet.

If you are wanting to keep them out of the sector, one way to do it is to stairstep your cannons to conserve ore.

Cannon 1 - set to destroy 1 ship

cannon 2 - set to destroy the 2nd ship with the ore from cannon 1
i.e. cannon 1 can destroy a ship at 10% on the first blast, but its second blast will only be 8% of the original ore blast (hypothetical - depending on ships and planet ore) so cannon 2 needs to be set at 2% to kill a ship.

cannon 3
planet 1 now at 6%, planet 2 now at 8% of original ore so cannon 3 makes up the difference to pod the 3rd ship (again hypothetical)

Do this for all 5 planets using a cannon ore setter. The purpose of this is to prevent a corp from using a scripted invasion where all moths are launched by a controller, and you do not have sufficient time to reset the cannons between moths. It is still possible that they could setup a run of 10+ moths, but you would be resetting the cannons.

There are other ways to use a cannon setting script, this is just one of them.

[Edited for two bad typos..]

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I see everyone setting the sector up to keep people out. (duh, I know that sounds stupid but let me finish)

Maybe a better tactic is to allow them to get through a few sectors, the deeper they go, the harder it gets. The final sector being the strongest. That way, they have burned massive resources before they can start the main attack? Not knowing how deep your setup runs can be another variable in their calculations?

Just a thought. if someone is using scripts for the invasion, maybe one way to screw the scripts is to use a really funky plan of defense? Get them driving around in circles a bit first?

I know I'd be a bit pissed if I horsed off many millions of figs only to find I was all alone in an empty sector?

Maybe set up a wall of sectors that lead to other sectors. Choose wrong and end up beating yourself (up) in the corner? lol

I have done that many times to find them moving planets out of the back while were moving in the front. Same result except there gone by the time you get there... But I still get all the planets on the way. Eventually if I do this enough you will run out of planets.

Wall at the front door. Concatenated cannon settings. Its a no brainer.