Asteroid

Description

Asteroids are the primary source of revenue for a planet, and you can get them by either initiating them or by capturing them through combat. Also known simply as 'roids'.

Initiating

The price to initiate an asteroid is determined by the following formula:

 Cost = 1000 + (250 * amount of asteroids of that type you already have)

Note that to initiate asteroids of a certain type, you will also have to pay resources of the same type. It takes Metal to initiate Metal asteroids, it takes Crystal to initiate Crystal asteroids, and it takes Eonium to initiate Eonium asteroids.

You do not have to scan for asteroids, youautomatically have available as many asteroids as you need. (In early PA rounds, you had to scan for asteroids before you could initiate them, and initiation costs were always paid in metal)

Each asteroid gives 250 resources of its type per tick, in addition to Engineering bonuses and bonus from Finance Centres. (as well as the bonus from a relevant Golden Roid, if you are lucky enough to have one of those)

In combat each roid has 50 Armor.