BEGINNER WALKTHROUGH

 

Build all of your resources

Its not glamerous, but if you dont have a strong income backing you up, you will always be waiting and building fewer ships.

Build them ALL and keep upgrading them.

Build your key buildings

  Technology Center / Ship Factory / Weapon Research Center
Upgrade Weikes Ship

Upgrade it from level 1 to 3.
Select the Weikes from the Frigate list and press the Begin Research button.

Cost and time are above the button.
Upgrade Cluster Lasers

Upgrade it from 1 to 3.
Click the Module research button to do this.		 Both research screens work the same, choose from the blue sillouttes on the left. The boxes will show you any items needing research to be done. The time it will take and the cost are shown. Click the Begin button.
You can do both at the same time. I worked on my base while waiting for these both to get to level 3. I chose not to use the default frigate.
Increase your build que
Select LOGISTICS		 Choose the first icon
CONCURRENT CONSTRUCTION		 This will allow you to buid two different ship orders at the same time.
Upgrade Optics


Select LASERS
(Directional Weapons)

Then OPTICS

Upgrade this as far as you can. At least until the other two upgrades get to level 3's

This can also be done at the same time as the other researches

Time to complete is shown at the bottom
Design your new ship

Select the Weikes-3 hull.

Click on Lasers (Directional Weapons)

 Add 10 Laser-3's which will use up all the available space.
Name the ship something meaningful
(Like L3X10 (Laser-3's times 10)
Construct 100 ships

Choose the L3X10

Ask for 50

 Then click build again and ask for 50 more This is twices as fast as waiting for 100 to be built in a single order.
Create your fleet

Just drag 50 of the 100 ships you built to any position.

Then drag the other 50 to another.

Name your fleet something meaningful.

(Like LASER1:
Laser based ships traveling at speed 1)

Choose a commander from the ones available across the top.

If lit, you can recruit a new commander by pressing the orange button.

Set Range to MAX
Max range will keep your ships as far away as possible during battle. It will attempt to keep out of enemy firing range. (No way in this case, but its a good strategy with faster long range weapons.
FUEL Your Fleet(s)

Fleets start with ZERO fuel, so click each fleet and then LOAD

Check them after each mission

 Recommend you always send them out FULL.
If they hit empty they stop shooting and sit there.
Attack Instance ONE   Select your spacebase. Choose INSTANCE


Select which fleets you will send.
NOTE You can see their fuel tank status and the number of ships in each fleet.
The SYNC button is ONLY IMPORTANT when attacking a planet.

The battle is completely automatic, you just get to watch.
The only way to speed up the battle is to add more ships
(if you have ships in all 9 positions you will fire on the enemy fleet 9 times instead of 2)
(If you see your ships fire and the target enemy isnt obliterated in one shot, add more ships to each position)

If you leave the combat for any reason it will still continue. Click your spacebase again and INSTANCE again to get back to it
On completion of the battle   You will see an email message on your screen. It will contain a treasure box. Click the box to move it to your bag storage.

Some instances have multiple parts (Not just a single engagement).
When you finish part of the fight you will see a screen showing you how many ships you lost (if any) and the choice to hit NEXT or END.
If you END a combat you get no rewards. The combat is not complete until you win all the parts.

At all times during an instance you will see a blue square, this is your ABORT COMBAT button. Better to save some of your ships than let them all die in a loosing battle.

If you leave the combat screen and it is a multiple part instance, your ships will wait for you to return to the instance screen before they begin the next part of the fight.
Open treasure box   Each box contains some random item. Resources or a Blueprint for new technology. A list of blueprint drops is shown HERE. You will have to re-fight instances many times to get the blueprints you are searching for.
I recommend that you begin the upgrades of these blueprints right away.
Then build better ships with the new technology and then take on harder instances.
If you loose EVEN ONE ship, I recommend aborting and strengthening your fleet before you try again.
Remember, more fleets means more shots at the enemy each round.
Instance 1   1 fleet of 100 L3X10 ships split into two groups of 50 Should be
NO LOSSES		  
Instance 2   1 fleet of 450 L3x10's split into 9 groups of 50 Should be
NO LOSSES		  
Instance 3   2 fleets of 900 L3X10's each, split into 9 groups of 100 Should be
NO LOSSES		  
         
         
         
         
         
         

 

 

 
Your IP Address is: 38.107.179.217