Easiest way to improve your score and climb ranks in Zorg Empire is mining. There are not too many variables to successful mining. Just few main principles to keep in mind. Mining is the only way to guarantee exponential increase in income. Every level you add to your mines increases you r income roughly 15%. that means your Income will double every 5 levels you add to your mines.

Side notes:
1. I'm using "RU" (Resource unit) to simplify calculations. This is basically sum of resources calculated at 'Merchant' rate (2|1|0.5)
2. This guide presumes that you are using Zorg Rubies for merchant. If you are not , the main principles still apply, but your progress will be slower and you may want to change your build order slightly.You will probably start to run out of crystal and want to upgrade them a bit sooner. But I do recommend using rubies . It will make your life a lot easier by removing all resource imbalance issues. For me merchant is the only thing I use rubies for. Bought 250 rubies and they have lasted me well over 6 months. That's less than 5 € cents per day.

Mines.
The most important index for mining is "Production increase value" (lets make it Pi). Basically Pi is the index for the bang -for -buck. Based on very simple arithmetic's, that is Pi = RU Needed for upgrade/Production RU Increase. So when upgrading your mines always upgrade the ones with lowest Pi first.

My recommended build order:
C1 M1 C2 M2 C3 M3 C4 M4 D1 M5 C5 D2 M6 C6 D3 M7 D4 C7 M8 D5 C8 M9 D6 M10 C9 D7 M11 C10 D8 M12 D9 C11 M13 D10 C12 M14 D11 M15 C13 D12 M16 D13 C14 M17 D14 C15 M18 D15 C16 M19 D16 C17 M20 D17 M21 D18 C18 M22 D19 C19 M23 D20 C20 M24 D21 C21 M25 D22 C22 M26 D23 M27 D24 C23 M28 D25 C24 M29 D26 C25 M30 D27 C26 M31 D28 M32 D29 C27 M33 D30 C28 M34 D31 C29 M35 D32 C30 M36 D33 C31 M37 D34 M38 D35 C32 M39 D36 C33 M40 D37 C34 M41 D38 C35 M42 D39 M43 D40 C36

Colonizing.
Once you have some finance accumulated and you can start colonizing planets, go for it. Don't colonize anything that's below 250 fields or you'll start running out building space. I also recommend to colonize planets with lowest maximum temperature, that will help to boost the production output of deuterium mines . Go for higher slots (10-15) in the system. And make sure you have 21 planets. anything less is just futile...

Power management.
Go for Solar Plants to begin with but once you get over Lvl 20 start thinking about solar sats. Solar sats become increasingly more cost efficient as the game goes on. Though you still may want to upgrade your solar plants later when you get richer and you can easily afford it. The only good thing about solar plants is that they are indestructible.

Defence.
The best defence for miner is to keep building mines. Use up your daily resource build-up so the raiders have no thing to gain attacking you. Other than that I recommend building some Light Lasers. LL are most cost effective.

Transport.
I Use Large Cargo Ships to cart my daily resource between planets. All deuterium to one planet for merchant transaction and then build as many mines as possible. And leftover I use for defence.

Well that's about it. Very easy and not very time consuming way of playing ZORG Empire. I spend about 1/2hr a day on it and I find my rank climbing fast and steady.

I like your Guide. Looks pretty straight forward and I have utilized this technique as well.

Bears a resemblance to what I did to, though the details are different. I guess that is to be expected though, to each his own.

Its all looks nice. Sure is pretty close to being generic.

Personal view, I go for the cheapest build there is energy consumption wise. But above 25 level mines you may want to prefer to CM a bit higher than u used to have, as around that level you would run serious shortage of crystal on ur production.

MM33 CM30 DS30 should be a good balance but if u cant get the CM30 CM29 is also good, though that still is going to end you up with access of metal. Unless your raids brings you more crystal.

Not a bad guide, there. If anyone has more questions, I'm the mining instructor for the alliance Acedian and can help you out personally.

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And I am infinitely awesomer than karroth at everything, inluding mining.

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Only problem having DS that high is that it makes you a tasty target. Assuming you're only sticking to mining and not using the deut for fleet, you really wouldn't need DS40. Oh, and they're a ***** to power, but hey, that's just me.

well for that reason alone i ask all my members in Primes (shabomm why not ) to have enough LC if RIPs are hard to come by to resource fleet save your daily reserve the access amount after using them up.

Hmmm... I like the guide, but I do it a bit differently, ESPECIALLY with regards to solar sats.

What I do (did) on xtreme is build 5 levels of each mine at a time - 5 metal, 5 crystal, 1 deut (for robot factory), 5 metal, 4 deut (completing a set of 5), 5 crystal, 5 metal, deut, crys, metal, deut, until I got to the point where it cost more than 1m metal to build each structure, where I went ahead and got nanite. Here I just go for the cheapest one (noting that I've spent exactly 8 rubies on this game lol) that my solar plants and fusion reactors can handle. I am a huge advocate of building these buildings, as even if you get raided, you will not lose much in terms of income because you don't have so much energy tied up in paper airplanes. They do get expensive after a while, which is why I typically throw in solar sats after they get more expensive than the nanite I'm currently working on, but it worked very well for me - and I just recently broke through the top 100 after 9 months of hard work .

Just different styles I suppose...