New Player Manual

Introduction

Little experience in Planetarion? You've come to the right place.

Browse around before the beginning of the round to gain an advantage about the inner workings of the game.

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In Planetarion you compete with thousands of other players over a 2 month period of non-stop gaming. Activity, skill, endurance and a solid alliance are the building blocks of a winner in this game.

At the beginning you construct refineries and initiate asteroids that orbit your planet to gain resources. With these resources you are able to construct 6 different classes of ship. Two classes are capable of stealing asteroids from enemy planets while another is capable of bombarding enemy planets ruthlessly destroying their structures. There are 4 races to choose from each equipped with 12 unique ships.

Planets are ranked by their score. The planet with the highest score wins.

Basic Gameplay

Each planet including yours is grouped into galaxies. Planetarion is a turn-based game playable with a web browser. Each turn is called a tick (a 1 hour long period). In speed rounds ticks vary between 1-5 minutes.

Rounds are announced 2-3 weeks before tick start. Around this time signups are opened on the main server allowing everyone creation of their very own planet. In the beginning everyone is placed in protection mode and are temporarily grouped into galaxies. At tick 36, planets are shuffled and placed into their true initial galaxy using a highly intelligent AI. If your planet is unpaid you are placed randomly otherwise you can form buddy packs with friends.

Now what? Read more about planets.

Galaxies

A galaxy allows its own planets to launch ships to defend each other with a low ETA. In the galaxy status you can see details on friendly and hostile fleet movement (only paid accounts see outgoing fleets).

More on galaxies here.

Alliances

Along with galaxies, your other main line of defence is alliances (supersized clans). Alliances are groups of players that agree to defend and perform coordinated attacks together.

More information is available here.

Combat

This is a space war game in which combat is an important part. The combat section is located here.