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Any money you have deposited in IGB is safe. Even aftter you are destroyed, assuming you have an escape pod.
If you got enough money, like Dynadax, you just tech up again and away you go.

I had deposited most of my remaining assets in IGB after Dyna's first attack, where he didn't take it all right then. It just wasn't enough alone to allow me to tech up to his level. The IGB account doesn't gain in value like it does on a banking planet.

What we should have done as an alliance, and I should have discussed this with you when you were online is to transfer enough credits to one of us from the other in a IGB bank transfer to allow one of us to tech up to Dynadax level so we had a chance to take him on. If all three of us had been online, You, me, and Dr. K, we probably had enough resources to tech up two of us and then just might have been able to make some headway.

The Alliance is about teamwork and pooling resources, and I didn't do it very well. Lesson learned.

Before my last battle, where I tried a different kind of attack on one of Dyna's planets (which didn't work), I transferred my bank balance to Dr. K. (since he had the most resources, and had a chance to tech up) so he could continue if he desired. Since I was sitting naked at sector zero with no cash, I committed Hoot Gibson. Unfortunately I didn't think about it too much, and I destroyed the alliance. My bad.

If I have read the various threads correctly, I think Soul's intentions on these first coupla games is for us to get our feet wet, and allow the newbies to this game like me make the mistakes and learn from them.

I think he has some additional features coming on the next round, that maybe he would explain to us.

When you get into a game like this the first time you are fighting battles on two fronts. First learning how the game works, and playing the game's angles to your advantage (no, not cheating), and taking what you have learned from that and then use this knowledge to form stratagies to take on the other human opponents.