SOFA Offense

The Sub Orbital Fighter attack, widely known as SOFA, is a method of attack you would use to weaken your enemies planets without putting your ship in harms way. SOFA sends the fighters on your ship into the atmosphere of the planet to weaken the overall planetary defenses: Energy, torpedos (Torps), and fighters (Figs).

As your experience grows in BNT, you may find that other players may ask what "SOFA code is this?" Or, is this "Old SOFA?" The SOFA is one of the most constantly evolving codes in the game, and it has many different settings. Here is an overview of them.

"OLD" SOFA (version 1):This sofa is all based on computer levels e.g. you can carry 200K figs and he can carry 100K, then max damage to his figs you can do is 100K, because your 200K fighters defeats his 100K and the rest of your figs are left to attack the rest of the figs on the planet. However, this does change substantially due to energy and torps on the planet vs beam levels and torp levels. It is very basic though, and is the most easily understood SOFA code available.

"NEW" SOFA (WC Version)
This SOFA is more complex then the previous, this SOFA is determined by scores, and it isn’t always the same. In settings u get a choice of a SOFA factor the SOFA factor is what determines score to damage ratio, General SOFA factor will be 3-5.

SOFA Defence

SOFA defense (Version 1):
This is very straight forward method, the lower your comp levels the less effective an attack is, so if you are trying to protect a bank this is what I would do. Either top the bank up with so many fighters it wouldn’t be possible to take it out (this method uses to many turns). 2 method is to just do up only your comp level and fill your bank with many fighters then destroy your ship. This method leaves you with many turns and you don’t worry about wasting a big ship when doing Kami’s.

SOFA defense (WC Version):
Those basic methods will not be as effective for this Version of SOFA, because it depends on your scores and not your Computer levels your are a bigger risk, but worry not there is a way to defend. What you must do if Focus on Torps and Beams for e.g. 1 torp does 10 damage to fighters. So with this Ratio you can protect 1 mill fits with only 100K torps and beams will help this to. This is great because now u can do up you computer to extreme levels still and not worry. Make sure you put plenty of fighters down though this will still help.