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• game is optimalized for opera browser (works well on firefox, and chrome)
• internet explorer browser is not fully supported, some parts of game don`t work correctly.

• total basics
• what is the point? aim?
• first steps (harvesting)
• first fight
• my ship is damaged
• learn more about annexes
• small basic overview
• technology research / updates
• the maps and moving
• weapons and modules
• creators
• getting new ship
• what is my level / tactic?
• more about harvesting
• fusion - material changing
• scanning
• stations
• upgrading modules
• shops
• caravans
• improvements
• enhancing
• ionizations - ship upgrades
• colossus
• quests
• clan
• packages
• monuments
• submissions
• other moving: gates
• black auction market
• virtual arena
• attack players
• clan wars
• clan raids
• bonuses from new players
• all hotkeys

total basics

• First of all this is MASS MULTIPLAYER ONLINE RPG SPACE BROWSER game!
• You have one ship and you are trying to get the best ship, weapons, technologies, stats, modules and clan and be the best in ladders.
• it is not a strategy of armies, but strategy with one ship (easier) and that is why it is rpg
• You can`t be destroyed, just slowed down.
• The space is unlimited
• Nearly everything is made by other players, you can post your own pictures, own ship stats, own weapon stats, create modules, technologies and so on
• You can even create stories aka in universe.
• there is nothing like far behind other players. The game is evolving every day, new things are posted by other players, so the cap is moving...

what is the point? aim?

• The point of the game is to be the best. -you can be best in harvesting, stations, achievements or have best clan, or be the best in virtual arena. There are many TOPs in this game.
• Or you don`t have to be the best in tables but to feel that you are great - by helping weak players, repairing enhancing them, or by having the biggest network of stations and galaxy gates.
• Other point can be for you to simply get HUGE ship with uber strong weapons and fantastic modules.
• Or maybe you want to be a great merchant and have lot of capsules- materials - money/resources...
• There are many more aims that you can explore in this endless universe.

first steps

• breath... slowly...
• You can try to click every section, to see what is there - but I can tell you - there is a window that is telling you, that you can`t use that section because you do not have the technology for it. It is made in this way - so you won`t be spammed by everything at once.
• So I personaly recommend everyone to start with missions! they are easy and they will teach you the very basics
• First missions will teach you how to harvest materials (currency aka gold) and fight pirates (enemy npc) and how to manipulate with your ship
• each action needs generator. for example an harvest needs 5 minutes. when you click harvest, your generator will be not available for 5 minutes and you have 2 options: you can wait or just click it and it becomes ready - ofcourse this needs Reset-kits (you can find these in really many actions, so if you play a lot you will have a lot Reset-kits...)
• to make the countdown lower, you can get bonuses to generators, or get 3rd generator.

first fight

• there are many types of fights (pirate fight, pvp, colossus fight and virtual fight). here we will explain the pirate fight. Press "F" key (or open FIGHT MENU from MAP MENU)
• There you see 9 enemies! choose one enemy and pick strategy - each strategy has different time duration and loot drop. Choose the standard quick fight - for begining.
• You will most probably win the first fight. You will see you and your enemy, the fight status, and the loot. Loot is reward that you have won in fight. The loot amount depends on how many enemies you lured (how big group you fought) and on the strategy.
• To fight bigger groups you must have more damage. The loot drop chances also depend on enemy.
• these fights are easy, but never underestimate the enemy, and dont forget to repair your ship and recharge/fill the shields - to do this - simply click the blue bar on top right
• If you deal lot of damage to the enemy he may flee away. Once enemy feels away, he has big chance to return during next fight with other enemy. If you deal small damage to enemy, he should not fee away. If you deal more damage than he has, you will destroy the enemy, and there wont appear new one for some time.
• if you destroy all enemies from one fight list, then you will get an extra bonus. The fight list is changed after 2.5 hours if you do not fight, or whenever you jump.
• I recommend to fight as much as possible and sell the loot, or disassemble it - mainly the annexes - learn more about annexes

my ship is damaged

• well, you should repair and charge the shields.
• to repair the ship click the green bar in top right menu and then choose how much to repair.
• to charge (full) the shields - click the blue button and follow instructions.
• if you are heavily damaged you are disallowed to do some actions
• this is the list of actions you can`t do if hull is damaged
• 80% damage - you can`t do jumps
• 75% damage - you can`t do fights (but others still can attack you)
• 15% damage - you can`t communicate with colossus
• You can`t be attacked if you have less than 600 tactic.
• You can`t attack colossus or station, or join raids if you have less than 600 tactic.

learn more about annexes

• you can see annexes in your ship below kits. You find annexes in fights versus pirates (if don`t have any, then you haven`t won any yet)
• These annexes are pretty nice things that can get you lot of materials or Reset-kits. you can do three things with them atomize, disassemble and quests. (we will talk about quest later in colossus)
• atomizing is enabled from higher tactic level
• atomize - (available when having more tactic) -atomize will take your generator out for very very long time (so you won`t be able to play for few hours of time with one generator) but you will get lot of materials of random type and Reset-kits - this is great when you go sleep or somehow don`t play for few hours.
• or you can disassemble them for lower material amount (does not cost any generator time).

small basic overview

• so for now you can do: harvest, fight pirates, repair ship, recharge generators and use annexes.
• These were the basics, if you don`t get them, read the manual again till here.

technology research and updates

• technologies are permanent bonuses to your attributes - what are attributes? - attributes are bonuses in ship - for example: jumping, engine, piercing, critical, harvest...
• you can research max 1 technology at a time (or 2 if you have second research team)
• research does not need anything, just time. researching does NOT collide with generators, so you can always do some researches while playing...
• You can find new technologies by fighting pirates, analyzing monuments or updating attributes.
• researches are divided into research packs, each pack has 10 researches, if you find, research and install all from one pack, you get technology level-up and can research new technologies from next pack
• updates: You can also increase any attributes you want - this is called update attributes. It can be found in the same screen as researching technologies. With each update the research time grows.
• You can reduce the research time with higher science attribute

the maps and moving

• There are 3maps: sector map, galaxy map, and bookmarks
• Sector map is the smallest map, to move here you just need small amount of generator time, and small amount of blue materials. Different colors in here means that you can harvest extra material, red square=extra red harvesting, blue square - extra blue materials, black square - no extra material. square=sector
• Galaxy map, is bigger, each galaxy consists of 60x60 sectors. The colors determines what sector colors you will find there, and so what material can be extra harvested there. You will need to jump to move from one galaxy to another - simply click any galaxy and jump-option will pop up. (follow the hints there andd) once you do the jump, you will be in selected galaxy.
• Another reason why to move from galaxy to galaxy is - to find other enemies, each enemy has different drop chances, so if you want to fight to win lot of weapons, you should find enemy that has large weapon drop chance.
• Last map is bookmarks/journal map - this is your own map, - you can put here coordinates, and make yourself the notes in here.
• If you see coordinates anywhere like this [xxx::yyy], then you can on click them and the coordinates-options-menu will pop-up.

weapons and modules

• Weapons are main part of your damage. To have higher damage you have to mount weapons (that you found in pirate fights) to your ship - clicking the weapon in your storage will pupup options - click mount to use it in ship.
• You can also buy weapons in shops (will tell later)or create them with creators (will talk about it in creators help). Each weapon drains different amount of red capsules during fight. If you want to find better stuff(weapons,modules) in fights, you have to lure more enemies or have better scan attribute (technologies or modules)
• Modules are like rings in other RPG games. Modules are giving different bonuses such as better generator, better harvesting, faster moving, cheaper jumping, faster research and so on. Each module has different set of bonuses (to know them, just click any module picture). Each module can also be upgraded with Upgradium - just click the module in ship and you will see the options

creators

• Creators are special parts that are used to build things from. All your creators can be found in your ship deck at the bottom
• To build the item from it, you have to have enough materials (amount needed is seen there too)
• you can get new creators from shops, or when fighting against pirates that have large-creator-drop-ratio
• tip: creators can also be disassembled for materials of random type, but sometimes it is better to sell them
• constructing cost depends also on your construction attributes.
• each creator does have uses - it is the amount of how many items you can build from it. If you deplete the creator - it will be lost.

getting new ship

• only way to get new ship is to build it yourself from a creator (more about creators), and there are 2 ways how to get a creator of new ship
• first is to buy it from shop or colossus shop
• second is to find it in pirate fight - but not every enemy can drop creator for ship, first you have to search for enemy that has large creator drop ratio (ask friends, check stats of every pirate type you fight with), then attacked pirates can drop creator for module or weapon, so you have to have luck.
• We recommend you to buy ship creator from shop.
• Getting the creator is just half way. Now you have to build it
• go in ship deck and click the ship creator (in storage at the bottom) - rest should be easy
• Your old ship will be lost - since you have upgraded the ship to the new one.
• sometimes new ship needs for creating more materials than you can have in storage - in this case you have to get other ship, that has larger storage, and needs less to build, (or get some construction attributes - that reduce the cost (modules, updates))

what is my level / tactic?

• Level=tactic - but also the ship can tell you how good you are - the bigger ship the better - more weapons/damage, armor, hull, shield and modules/stats
• Tactic is gained mainly in fights. The more tactic you have the larger group you have to fight and defeat to gain tactic.
• Tactic can also be given as a reward in missions or for powered improvements, or in few more actions aka hunting, quests or sector clearing
• Tactic is also randomly given for harvesting but only until about 5000 tactic.
• Tactic is also given when creating items from creators.
• Enemy players ships can`t attack you if your tactic is less than 600.
• when you fight enemy player then the damage depends also on tactic - player with less tactic has lowered damage (depends on the tactic ratio) - this works also in virtual arena

more about harvesting

• there are nine types of harvesting - each type has its own time and bonuses.
• sizable and ultra are special and able to use only if you have unique device - heavy spoon
• other harvest types are available anytime - you just have to upgrade the harvesting mechanism (in harvest section with green upgrade button)
• also some galaxies are special for some materials, and so you can search for sectors with different colors, each color gives extra materials on harvesting capsules of that color.
• sometimes a galaxy is in storm status - this means that you can harvest more materials of any type.
• storm is always just for short time in current galaxy
• some sectors contains also asteroids or some gas clouds - these are giving different bonus to different material types while harvesting.
• When you harvest specific type more times, then you became better at harvesting that type=you will harvest more with each harvest - this is called harvest mastery

fusion - material changing

• material fusion is the fastest way to change one material into another.
• all you need is to get in the fusion section (click the material in top window or the gray bar in top right) then choose how much material you want to spend, and select a material you want to get.
• the conversion rate is not 1:1. There is always some lose. But you can minimize this lose by investing points in fusion attribute (technologies or modules)
• fusing from yellow "fusy" capsules is best, because these capsules have higher conversion rate.
• sometimes it is better to check shops if there aint better offers than doing the fusion or if you are in clan, you can exchange materials with other friends.

scanning

• Scanning option can be reached under MAP MENU. With scan you simply find out what is arround you in other sectors.
• You can scan for different things, such as colossus, stations, monuments or ships. Scanning will give you information about the scanned objects in the chosen area. And knowledge is power, right?
• you can also use scan to get more info about other player, or to know more about colossus.
• higher scan stat is lowering the scan cost
• cost for scanning enemy ship depends also on that player scan

stations

• Stations are built by players. There is just one type of station. There is also limit of stations in sector and galaxy.
• each station can: repair ships and recharge shields, sell Upgradium (used in modules and many other actions), transfer ship - gates, and create Reset-kits for the station owner
• Station has durability, which goes down over time. When durability reaches low numbers - it can be stolen. When durability is low then it can be attacked and the attacker gains its materials.
• Tax means how much will the station owner recieve when somebody uses the station. Station profit will gather into station storage and can later be withdrawn by its owner.
• First station does not require reaching any construction attributes. But after the first station, player must have enough construction points to maintain another station.
• Creating stations requires black capsules!
• Station is also automaticaly producing Reset-kits and upgradium every day.
• Having higher level of station means that its functions will be cheaper and that it will produce more Reset-kits, also it is harder to be attacked and scaned!

upgrading modules

• Each module has its level [X / Y] - X is actual module level, while Y is the maximum module upgrade level
• Modules can be upgraded with Upgradium. If you have zero Upgradium - you will have to find a station (use scan for stations in MAP MENU)or you can also get them with improvements (the wrench white icon in top menu)
• If you want to buy Upgradium from station - you have to go in the same sector as the station.
• You can also get Upgradium from friends when you are in clan...
• Each upgrade gives some attributes such as aiming, piercing, jumping... (depend on module). Black upgrade gives more attribute points but drains blacks as well (black cost can be reduced with enhancing attribute).
• Some modules can have more different attibutes.
• You can still find good already upgraded modules in module shop.
• Some modules need more Upgradium at once.
• If you have low upgrade chance then the upgrade may fail, and the module is not upgraded. You lose your Upgradium (and blacks if used black upgrade) but you can try again. The chance is lowered by every upgrade. Black upgrade has higher upgrade chance.
• First attribute in module (not in default, but in the one you have) is the primary attribute - this means that every 4th upgrade will upgrade this attribute.
• Modules with more attribute types give also more points for each upgrade - so this means that modules with just one attribute will be profiled to just one attribute but total attribute points will be less as in module with 5 attribute types...

shops

• Shops are for trading among players. They can be found in every colossus (help about colossus), or use the global shop, which has the latest 80 items that are put for sale in any colossus. Each colossus shop can be reached by any player in the colossus communication range, while global shop can be reached anywhere. (you will rarely use just the colossus shop, and you also need to have tactic, so dont mind this)
• When putting your items for sale in colossus be careful with choosing the price. If nobody has bought your item in a specific period of time (about 3 days) the colossus owner may disassemble the item , and you will get 50% of the disassemble value. Also, a small portion from the set cost will go to colossus as a middle-mans fee. (this fee is 5%)
• When someone has bought your items from colossus, then you can withdraw your materials under packages (Note: Packages won`t stay in the package storage forever).
• some items require tactic to be able to buy. So you should do lot of fights to be able to buy the best things.

caravans

• Caravan is a special shop that appears from time to time and has very great items or other bonuses
• When caravan arrives it wont stay forever. but for just about 6-8 hours.
• there are no restrictions / requirements for tactic in caravan - so you can get here very great items.
• caravan offer is just for you, so don`t be afraid, none will buy them before you do.
• you can buy also blacks, or powered improvements or attributes in this caravan

improvements

• Improvements can be find by clicking the white wrench icon in top-right.
• You can also publish your ship - ask for help (in facebook)or simply give the link URL to anyone else and anyone that clicks this URL, will give you improvements
• you can use the improvements in many ways, just click the wrench and see all the options
• there are 2 types of improvements, normal improvement and powered improvement (powered have better options to use)
• you can get max 8+- improvements per 3 few days from other friends. You can get improvements also from missions or as a friend bonus

enhancing

• enhancing can be found in deck - there you have to click the button ENHANCE - and there you have to choose what you want to enhance for few days duration. Enhancing is attribute bonus for only few days and can be only for harvesting, stabilizer and damage.
• you can also enhance other ships - but they have to be in same sector as you.
• tip: enhance your harvesting to harvest more, or enhance the damage and lure more enemies to get better loot, or enhance stabilizer to spare extra energy in fights or during harvesting.

ionizations - ship upgrades

• Ionizations allow you to perform additional upgrades to your ship, increasing its attributes such as hull, shields, armor, module slots and even weapon slots
• Every ship has a certain preset amount of ionizations that may be performed
• You can increase the maximum number of Ionizations for your current ship by purchasing them with improvements or occasionally in the Neilidans Caravan and even by reaching mission combo's after combo level 150 in intervals of 50 (e.g. 150 / 200 / 250 etc.)
• Note that Ionizations are ONLY for your current ship and will disappear once you purchase a new ship!
• Hence, it is advised to perform Ionizations on ships you are planning to keep for a longer duration

colossus

• Colossus is the main building and center / fortress of clan (clan help). (section can be found here)
• Building the colossus is expensive and uses generator for a long duration. After built, the colossus can also be upgraded a few dozen times.
• Colossus can be built only in suitable areas - being far from any other colossus (at least 3k sectors)
• The builder of colossus automatically becomes the colossus General=clan leader, and can accept new clan members to his clan. This is good for clan events.
• Each colossus has shops, and the colossus gains profit from every trade made in here. As well as can get free materials if people set bad prices on items and nobody buys them.
• Colossus can be a target of player attacks, so it has a strong defense capability. But still should be taken care of and improved. Weapons can be mounted to colossus as well. To attack colossus you have to be in a clan.
• Colossus has also special transfer room - can be used to transfer weapons, modules, materials, creators or Upgradium to any clan member with ease.
• You can also do quests in colossus, but that is explained in next help section - quests

quests

• Quests be bought from any colossus. They give you specific instruction of which annex you have to find. Completing (finding the annex in fight, and retrieving to colossus - clicking the quest and choose option FINISH) a quest will give amount of materials. Some quests will give you tactic as well
• In case the quest is not good for you, you can also refuse to complete it, but you will not get any resources back for it then.
• The amount of quests in a colossus is not infinite, once there arent any in colossus the colossus owner wont get the profit, but you can still buy them. The cost depends on colossus guild level.
• tip: we really recommend to have always maximum quests taken, so you have bigger chance to find the annex you are looking for.

clan

• To form a clan you must first build a colossus (more info).
• To join a clan you must send your join request to some clan in clan info section. Being in clan provides you with information about other clan members without further scanning, or repair their ships. Also, there is a private clan chat possibility. Although joining a clan will not give you any specific clear bonuses, having allies is always better than being alone.
• When in clan you can attack enemy colossus or take part in clan raids - great for getting great loot.
• there is also extra transfer storage in colossus where you can have modules, weapons, creators or materials.
• read more about clan wars and clan raids

packages

• packages are small canisters that require something, mainly materials. You get these when selling something to shop, and somone buys it. Then you don`t get the money directly, but in package, and there you have to pick it - withdraw.
• the packages can be found in by clicking the package white icon. You also see amount of your not taken packages in overview window near game logo.
• !!!watch out!!! some packages are timed - so if you don`t take them in time - then you lose them!

monuments

• monuments are story items - they tell different stories about the universe, or maybe about players - because other players are submitting (posting) them to this game.
• they are good for 2 things - materials for analysing them, and fun for reading them.
• monuments can be found via scan or by luck in sector map.
• if you find monument, you can analyse it (in the monument screen) and so get some materials for it.
• we recommend to everyone to create his own monument - it is simply some kind of flag or something in space - you can create for example a planet, or dost, or lost ship, or some abnormality...

submissions

• in submit section you can submit your own stuff/pictures/ideas and so on, such as new weapon with specific drain, damage, material cost and so on.
• But first you have to have submit technology researched.
• this way we can all make the game unlimited together
• you can submit: enemies,weapons, modules, technologies, monuments and ships

other moving: gates

• station gates
• Using gates is available only in stations and it is very cheap.
• to use gate you have to find station, and then use it through station menu - but you must know the gate code of ther gate - station
• you can use gate only for traveling from one station to another.
• some stations have predefined gate codes - for easier use.

black auction market

• Black auction market is very good place you can get black capsules from.
• when you bid in auctions, and someone overbids you, the materials will be send to you via packages
• after every bid, the auction timer will reset - 15 hours. This is good mainly for auction owner - this way he can win more materials!
• auctions are divided into different tactic levels, so every player has a chance
• auctions are available from higher level
• You can either win blacks in here for normal materials, or if you have lot of blacks, you can insert blacks in auctions and other players will try to bid - and at the end you get lot of materials. (you can withdraw the materials even if you dont have enough storage)

virtual arena

• Virtual arena section is place where you can fight against any other player without taking any damage. Every time you fight, all your actual info will be copied in the virtual reality, until you attack anyone again.
• You start at the end of the ladder, and when you win against someone, then you swap the position with him.
• You only see few in front of you and few behind you.
• If you win against stronger enemy, then you also get some winning prize materials - the amount depends on the delay between the fights and tactic.
• Fighting in virtual reality does not take generator in action, but you can fight only once in a while (about 15 minutes)
• you can win materials in here, you dont need generator for it, and you can`t be damaged (since it is virtual).
• note: enhancing is not counted in virtual arena!.

attack players

• You can attack other players only if you are in same sector.
• To attack other ship, open his ship info and click attack ship
• Your enemy does not need generator and the fight drains less red capsules from him
• You only loot materials from the enemy - enemy must have disabled shields (0) and then when you attack you will gain materials - the amount is 30% of your damage and 7% of enemy material. So if enemy has 1milion green capsules, and you deal 200k damage then you get 60k+70k material

clan wars

• Clan war is a name for situation where two clans fight each other, or when some players from one clan are attacking enemy colossus.
• To attack any colossus you have to be in clan, and then you have to be in same sector as the enemy colossus.
• The attack button can be find in colossus info.
• While attacking colossus you will get/steal materials from the colossus
• The amount of stolen materials from colossus depends on its life and your damage. The more damaged colossus is, the more materials you steal.
• The enemy players should attack the players that are fighting the colossus, because when a ship is damaged it can`t do attacks. Also enemy ships should repair the colossus and put weapons to it.

clan raids

• Are special events for clans only - it is a fight agains NPC pirates and boss(rare)
• Colonels or generals choose a time when the clan raid will happen. Then the system will choose where it will happen - in random sector.
• The raid takes one hour. During this hour clan members should regroup in the raid sector. and fight as much enemies as possible.
• After the clan raid ends, colonels can change the "damage amount" into materials for colossus. Also the damage amount all members did is stored and the ladder of best clans is made of it.
• In clan raids are for strategies to fight against the pirates. tanking, attack armor, attack cargo, attack weakness points (each time you do fight - you can choose the strategy)
• tanking - the enemies will deal heavy damage to you, but then you can lure more pirates, because pirates will deal less damage then. (Luring more enemies - better loot)
• attack armor - you will reduce pirates armor so next time players can lure more pirates. During this attack you don`t get any loot.
• attack cargo - you will get more materials from fights
• attack weakness - you will deal more damage, so in end the "damage amount" is higher
• each strategy can be used only limited time, then it is not working in that one raid.
• tip: first do tanking and armor attack, so then you can lure more enemies and get better loot. - for weaker players: just farm at cargo and weakness, while stronger players will do the tanking and armor
• You can also have boss in raid. These are usually very strong and have high damage, but when you defeat him all clan members will get a special reward.
• We recommend to do as many clan raids as possible.

bonuses from new players

• If you use your bonus link (in your pilot section, in improvements) - if you give that link to someone, and then he clicks it and decides to play the game, then you will get extra bonuses/improvements from time to time as he playes.

all Hotkeys

• -S- :: your ship
• -V- :: virtual arena
• -I- :: improvements
• -Q- :: missions
• -M- :: sector map
• -G- :: galaxy map
• -F- :: fight list
• -H- :: harvest overview
• -R- :: reset generators (only if 3 gens are running)
• -E- :: shield recharge
• -U- :: buy upgradium window
• -J- :: jump window
• -K- :: scan
• -B- :: sector objects
• -T- :: technology research centrum
• -O- :: your stations - overview
• -L- :: last station
• -D- :: module groups menu
• -A- :: clan raid (only if you are in clan)
• -X- :: for closing notifications in bottom left