HOW TO PLAY THIS GAME

 
Introduction
 
This game is about conquering the entire galaxy. The galaxy is divided in to various sectors, each sector containing a group of empires. You will start off as the leader of one of these empires.

Turn based RTS
 
Each player receives a fixed number of turns per minute (currently varying between 1 turn every 8 seconds on the RT server, 5 minutes on the fast server and 1 turn every 30 minutes on a slow server). Performing tasks such as researching, construction, and attacking requires turns. Once these turns are used up you will have to wait until you have more turns before you can perform additional tasks. For more info on turns, see "Manual" > "How turns work & different servers"

Starting
 
You will start off with a single colony (planet). Try to build up your infrastructure (buildings) on that colony until you run out of either available land or available ore. Remember that infrastructure requires labor, land and ore to build.
 
Notes:
1 infrastructure requires 1 land, 1 labor & 1 ore to build
1 population = 1 labor
1 housing infrastructure houses 10 population
 
If you run out of labor, you have to demolish some infrastructure to build more housing. Labor will also be used to maintain your existing infrastructure.
 
For the Terran race, it is recommended that you should build no more than 5 mines while playing more concentration on commercial infrastructure. Commercial generates credits or income. Also make sure you have enough agriculture to feed your population. Insufficient food will cause your population to starve. You will notice your credit income and food consumption at the end of the turn as seen below:
 
Credit +321   Food +4   Goods 0
 
Research in infrastructure increases the effectiveness of your infrastructure by 10% per tech level !.

Exploring
 
All players below the power rating of 5,000 is under protection and can't be attacked. Those with more than 1 planet, we would strongly advise all players to always have 3-6 border or junk planets and do not rely on this 5,000 point, because as your planets grows so does your power rating. Therefore you may be brought out of this newbie protection without noticing it. If your power rating goes above that ALWAYS REMEMBER to start building ships to guard your existing colonies.
 
To begin exploration you should build some ships with high scanning ratings (scouts recommended) and send them off to look for new planets to colonize. Colonization is done automatically when you find a new planet. The difficulty of finding new planets increases proportionate to the planets you control. Remember to build proper infrastructure on all your colonies. Population level on new colonies will take time to grow.
 
Conquer the galaxy !
 
Each player below the power rating of 5,000 is under protection and can't be attacked. Before your power rating exceeds 5,000 you should start building military ships in order to guard your existing colonies.
 
This is also the time to go on the offensive. Try to find weaker empires to invade and attack. Once you have 20+ planets it would easier to invade and take over planets than to explore for them. Remember not to bite more than you can chew, by making too many enemies at one time.
 
Also remember that ships requires upkeep. You can however "overbuild" prior to launching an attack. After your attack you should disband extras so that you will not go bankrupt. This is also the time to search the galaxy for new types of minerals/goods/technology which will allow you to build better and more powerful types of ships.