Space

Expand dominance of your empire by colonizing and conquering star systems, researching technologies, and having your industry generate credits, ore and production. As leader of your people, you get to make the decisions about diplomacy, research, naval ship construction and how battles will be fought. In computer game parlance this is a 3X game: eXplore, eXpand, and eXterminate - But, on a massive scale, with over 500 other players in the galaxy with you, each wanting the number 1 spot.

In order to expand your empire you need to colonize other stars around your home system. Since you only start out knowing about your home star you will need to send your ships out to explore neighboring worlds (see the quick play guide: the Idea ) . Once claimed these worlds you can click on them, from the map and a colonization button will appear in the lower left hand corner.

Each star system has a habitability rating which is a measure of how easily your species can live there. Your home world has 100% habitability but every other world has a random habitability from 40% to 100%. The cost of colonization is at least 1000 ore and production, modified by the habitability of the system. The lower the habitability is, the higher your cost will be.

Once a world is colonized a variety of buildings are automatically created for you. These starter buildings are good for a while, but you will soon want to add megapoli, mines, factories at a minimum. All buildings can cost up to double what they normally would cost to create depending on the system?s habitability. Your people can only support an amount of colonies determined by your total population / 2.5 million + 3. So if you have 7.5 million population and 10 planets you can only colonize 5 of them in addition to your starting homeworld. Reguardless of your population you can colonize 2 planets in addition to your homeworld.

Space features thirteen different technologies, which you can increase to further benefit your empire. Each species starts play with several levels of research already completed in each technology field (see species briefs for more information).

Every hour your research labs add to your base of knowledge. If you want to increase the speed you are researching at then build more research labs. However, if a given star system has too many buildings and not enough population, than your labs will operate at reduced efficiency.

Each level you gain gives a fixed increase in capability over and above any species advantage you may have. However, the costs to gain each new level increase somewhat exponentially. This cost increases as level of technology desired grows and also with the total number of technology levels you possess.

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