New Player Guide
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There are 8 different places to go
Allied Command
- For buying Crew, Captain Skills, and a Colony with the Influence you gain
- Crew
- Captain Skills
United Systems
- Headquarters for the Terran, Vorgan, and Drakken
- You can be healed by flying near the Starbase
- You can upgrade your entire ship at the Upgrader (after lvl 10)
- Ship Upgrades
Nomad Empire
- Headquarters for the Nomad, Eldred, and Scarab
- You can be healed by flying near the Starbase
- You can upgrade your entire ship at the Upgrader (after lvl 10)
- Ship Upgrades
Haven
- New Player Tutorial Area
- Good place for experience early
- Shows how missions and zone powers work
- Haven
Delta 3
- A massive map where everyone that joins is an ally against the Armada
- Up to 16 characters per instance (usually 1 or 2 instances are open at any given time)
- Useful for gaining experience, influence, and cargo
- Neverending instance where experience is proportional to your level compared to the level of the Armada you are killing (twice the experience for the kill shot)
- Players usually work together to kill Armada, but you do not have to ally with them or anything
- How to ask for group:
- (1) When you enter, open the map by using the 'z' key for map. And see if
- there's a group of people around a certain spot. Popular spots are
- - Meinke, Dahfer, Trella, Aphoros, Antiak, and others
- (2) Ask if there are any groups and then warp to that person and follow them
- Note: Normally there isn't any issue with more people joining a group to kill
- faster. However there are instances where people are mining and hate to
- be disturbed, or there are outcasts who doesn't know how to answer, "Is
- there a group?"
- Delta 3
Neutral Zone
- A small map where the United Systems compete against the Nomad Empire
- Up to 8 United Systems characters against 8 Nomad Empire Characters
- Useful for gaining experience, and small amounts of cargo
- Neutral Zone
The Burn
- A small map where everyone that joins is an ally against the Armada
- Advised for higher level characters only because this map can be difficult
- Up to 8 players have to fight off 13 waves of Armada
- The Burn
Your Colony (Not available at start)
- Need to purchase at the Surveyor in Allied Command
- 30,000 Influence
- 12 Power Ore
- 4 Solinite
- 1 Flux Generator
- A place where all of your characters share
- Can build a
- Vault to store your cargo
- Factory to smelt your bad items
- University to get different crew
- Colony
- Need to purchase at the Surveyor in Allied Command
Your Ship
The Character is broken down into different parts
- Ships Systems (press s)
- You gain 1 new point to allocate per level
- Once a system reachs level 6, another attribute is added
- At level 11, a different attribute is added
- Captain Skills (press c)
- You can purchase a new skill from the Allied Command every 4 levels
- The basic skills are shown right above the captain skills; they are weapons, science, and tactical
- These basic skills are used by the captain skills and might help characters in other ways
- Crew
- You can get one crew member from Allied Command to begin with. These people can augment your damage, repair your ship, regenerate energy, etc.
- Items (press i)
- There are four types and they must be crafted from your cargo (materials). They do not drop, but you can trade them with other players
- There are Weapons, Armor, Engine, Shield
- Cargo (press o)
- When you start you can only craft the cargo in row 1
- Each cargo has a seperate craft level which improves the more you carft
The maximum level at the moment is 40. There are only a few level 40 characters because right now the experience is propotional to the level of Armada you are killing, Armada maximum is only level 20.
Things to Know
Main Screen
1. Your Ships information
- Blue bar is shield
- Grey bar is hull
- Yellow bar is energy
2. Mini-Map
- Click icon in top right corner to enlarge or press z
- Shows a variety a things that you will find out
3. Information Bar
Captain Screen
- Press C or click on the portrait icon in the bottom left.
- Useful for current Experience and Experince until next level.
- A. Basic Skills which help your Captain Skills
- B. Captain Skills which do many different things, purchased at Allied Command
- C. Mining Levels for Crystals and Asteroids, improves as you mine more
Ship Screen
- Press "S" or click the ship icon in the bottom left.
- A. The Ship Systems Upgrades; when you have a green number, that's how many available points you have to allocate.
Items Screen
- Four different item types:
- Weapon
- Armor
- Engine
- Shield
- An item cannot be used unless you meet its level requirement. The component in the highest row used to craft determines the item's level prerequisite: level 1, level 5, level 10, level 15 for row 1, 2, 3, 4 respectively. For example, 5 Power Ore (row 1) makes a level 1 weapon; 4 Power Ore + 1 Driver (row 2) makes a level 5 weapon; 4 Power Ore + 1 Sac (row 4) makes a level 15 weapon.
- Convert smelts an item into colony materials (destroying it) once you own a Factory in your Colony.
- Sell (converting the item into credits) is currently unimplemented.
- Four different item types:
Cargo Screen
- Basic Crafting, your skill improves as you craft more
- A. Take 5 materials from the first row
- B. Put them in these 5 slots
- C. If successful will put item here
- D. Shows the current craft level for that type of cargo
4. Ship Systems
- Systems depend on the Race and Ship
- First slot is main weapon, which is improved by attack rate
- Second, Third, and Fourth are sub-systems which are improved by recharge rate
5. Crew
- Start with one crew member, Purchase at Allied Command
- When you upgrade your ship you get two
6. Items
- You open the items screen and drag the item you want to use into the one of the top four slots
7. Menu / Missions / Starmap
- Menu is the menu
- No real Missions yet
- Starmap is how you warp
8. Powers
- Are acquired in Delta 3
- Are bought in Neutral Zone and the Burn
9. Chat
- Just press enter to chat
- /s name for the private chat
- /r to reply