Maximize Your Conquer Kredits in Eve Galaxy Conquest

Intro

Conquer Score and Conquer Kredits currency are part of the Eve Galaxy Conquest game mechanics related to seasonal gameplay and evaluation of your performance during the play. You can read more about the seasonal system in my comprehensive guide. Meanwhile, here I will cover everything related to Conquer Score: what it is, how to obtain it, how to farm it efficiently, and where to spend Conquer Kredits at the end of the season.

What Is Conquer Kredits and Conquer Score?

It’s a special seasonal currency that you will get at the end of the season. The amount of Kredits is determined by your Conquer Score, which is based on your activities against enemy players and NPC-captured structures.

You can access your character profile by clicking on the portrait in the centre of the top menu. From there, head to the Season History section, where you can see four stats, including your current Conquer Score. If you tap on the blue “i” icon nearby, you will see a prediction of how many Conquer Kredits you will get at the end of the season.

How to Obtain Conquer Score

Now, as we’ve learned where to look for them, it’s time to understand how the score is formed. There are three sources:

1. Capturing enemy player grids: You gain 666 points for each tile, regardless of its level. Note that you do not gain anything when sieging a developed grid.
2. Combat with other players: You gain one score for every eight Military Exploits (tags), so around 320 score per win in endgame PvP combat.
3. Killing NPC Escorts at stations and gates: The actual value is very hard to calculate due to variance in performance of each strike and rounding. Update: As of April 2024, there’s an invisible hard cap of 1 million Conquer Score obtainable from Station or Gate NPC escorts.

The first two methods are incomparably weak compared to the last one. To give you an idea: after two months of quite active PvP, I gained around 450k Conquer Score. Meanwhile, hitting level 7 station Escorts once gave me 500k, yes, in a single strike with one ship!

How to Farm Conquer Score in Eve Galaxy Conquest

The most efficient way I found is by attacking hostile level 6 or 7 gates and stations. These levels of stations offer a comfortable combination of power and the number of Escorts. So your fleet, with a power of 650k or more, can kill in one go 35 or 50 Escorts, offering you something between 400k and 550k Conquer Score every 60 minutes (Escort respawn time).

I recommend picking fleets with high data rates and burst damage on the first turn.

Update: As of April 2024, there’s an invisible hard cap of 1 million Conquer Score obtainable from Station or Gate NPC escorts.

Your corp can set some small corps as hostile just for this activity and make attacks with no intent to actually siege the structure.

Conquer Kredits Gain

Conquer Score directly affects how many Conquer Kredits you are getting in the NEXT season, but the conversion is not linear. It’s heavily diminished as you progress further. For example, for 850k score, you’re getting 1320 Kredits, while for 6 million, you’re getting 1911 Kredits.

UPDATE: The formula has been cracked! If you’re into numbers and data mining, check out my Decoding Games: Data Mining in Action post.

For your convenience, I’ve created a calculator where you can enter your desired Conquest Kredits value, and it will instantly show you the exact Conquest Score required.

What Can You Get for Conquer Kredits?

To understand how much score and Kredits are enough, let’s answer the question: what can you buy with Conquer Kredits?

The Conquer Shop will appear along with other shops inside your Homebase as your server reaches Season Mission #11 – Trigger. But, you won’t be able to buy anything as Kredits are issued at the end of the season and are generally spent at the beginning of the next season.

Anyway, this season offers three Legendary implants and three Legendary ship rig blueprints, which, unlike regular crafting, provide exact set bonuses listed in a blueprint. Each set costs 350 Conquer Kredits, and you can buy up to three of each.

For 100 Conquer Kredits, you can buy a Special Recruitment Coupon. With a stock limit of five, you’ll need 500 Kredits to buy them all.

There’s also a pack of 1000 components for 10 Kredits, an inventory items it seems. But imo better is to keep the Kreds for the next season.

Implant Set Bonuses:

• Rage: Increases Critical Chance by 1.4% and Critical Damage by 2.8% at the beginning of each turn, stackable (max 8).
• Charged Strike: Increases Damage by 1.8% whenever you deal damage, stackable (max 8 stacks).
• Shielded Repair: When your ship squads are being repaired, reduces their received damage by 3.8% for one turn.

Rig Bonuses:

• Domination: Drone Damage +51.5%.
• Evasion: Evasion Rate +3.1%.
• Movement Speed: Deployment Speed +25%.

My Opinion on Sets:

• Charged Strike: Not worth it even with Draea’s multi-attacks, as it takes 3–4 turns to get full 18% potential. Still Too slow for an aggressive character like her (Some report there is a bug with no actual cap on stacks, unconfirmed).
• Rage, also too slow buildup. Maybe you can get a good synergy with Vlad, since he got bonuses to Crit and low fleet count, which you will defiantly will get after 8 turns of combat.
• Shielded Repair: Too weak, duration should be 2 turns to make it worthy.
• Domination: Reasonable for Vexor, Tristan, and Dragoon fans. But Drones damage % is not quite high.
• Evasion: Avoid it; too low and 100% countered by Ketzi’s Excellent Hit.
• Movement Speed: Looks interesting. Not sure if the bonus is additive or multiplicative, but it’s great for travel and PvP.

To buy everything, you’ll need 6850 Conquer Kredits, which is unrealistic since you get no more than 2k per season.

How Much Conquer Kredits Do You Need?

So there you have it: the bare minimum to get one implant set and recruitment coupons is 850 Conquer Kredits, which means you need 390k Conquer Score. Correction, for 350 Kreds you get only 1 blueprint, not 3, so for set you need 350 × 3 = 1050!

My Personal Goal is to get:

• rig set,
• Ten recruitment coupons.

Together, this is 1800 Conquer Kredits. This wasn’t hard to achieve using the described method—I even managed it with my alt!

As the season is about to end soon, you might also want to check out my guide on how to prepare yourself to maximize seasonal rewards and what resources are important to carry over or other guides related to Eve Galaxy Conquest.