Quick start
You are now the emperor of a small planet. Within your storage yards you will find enough resources for several space ships. Your first task is to swiftly research and construct the shipyard. It is here where you will be then able to construct your space ships and start your search for new planets.
- Visiting your planet: To view the storage yard of your planet, you have to visit the construction view of your planet. To reach it click your planet overview in the bottom center
. You will be able to view your home planet here. Double click to visit it. Subsequently you can close the planetary overview.
- Viewing your storage yard: To view the stored ship parts, you have to go into the details of the planet. To do so, click the information monitor in the bottom center of the screen. A new window with a lot of information will open. There you will be able to find the tab named Storage. Planets can contain resources, modules and artifacts. Modules are the basic components of which space ships can be constructed. You can close this window now.
- Construction of your first building: In the beginning of the game, the only building you can construct is the base camp. Construct a second base camp. To do so select the building on the right side and position it on one of the empty construction slots of the planet surface. The building will appear on the top section of the screen in the construction queue. You are able to que maximum 4 tasks at once which will be worked down one by one. To cancel a task you can simply right click and select cancel to remove it from the queue.
- Research of further options: To construct a shipyard you have to research it first. Lets click the symbol on the bottom center of the screen which represents research
. The research window will open. You will notice that you can't research the shipyard right away. You have to research the Research Facility first. To start researching something, you have to select it and select start from the action buttons on the bottom right of the screen. Click the research symbol again to return to the planet overview.
- Reducing the research time: To reduce the time needed to research the shipyard, you should build multiple research facilities on your planet. You should make sure not to accidentally remove your last base camp. If you do so your planet won't have any industrial production anymore and the construction of a new building would take a very long time.
- Colonization of other planets: As soon as your shipyard is built, you can assemble your first colonization ship. One of your first ships should be a colonization ship because using this you can colonize another planet. You should carefully defend your colony ship - and better run from a conflict instead of risking to lose it. To access another solar system, you have to move your ship through a starroad.