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Map Screen
Minimap: The Minimap shows you all the planets within your alliance and all the planets you have revealed around your alliance. Clicking on the minimap will take you to that area on your main map. The minimap is in the bottom right corner of the screen. The white box shows the area of the map you are currently looking at.
Drop Down Planet Menu: You can find individual planets in this. Simply find the planet you are looking for and the menu will take you to it. The "Find" button next to it allows you to type in a planet number when you click on it.
Colors: The planets on the map come in 6 main colors. Blue=You. Green {3 shades}= Your allies. Yellow=Neutral {Players you haven't attacked or who haven't attacked you. Orange=Enemy {Players you have attacked or who have attacked you. Red=Planets that have attacks going on. White=Players you have a NAP {Non agression pact} with.
Scroller: Located in the bottom left of the map allows you to scroll around the map instead of clicking on the minimap.
The planets are shown on the main part of the map with the number of the player who owns them. You can also see 3 types of icon. The first is a spanner and that tells you there is a ship building on the planet. It will also have the build time next to it. The next is an arrow which signifies buildings building on the planet. This also has build time next to it. The 3rd is a ship icon. Blue signifies your ships, green, your allies and red signifies enemy ships. The number on the right is arriving ships and the number on the left is ships on the planet.
Planet Screen
When you click on a planet of your own you get 2 menus. 1 in the bottom right and 1 in the bottom left. You also get a table showing you the planet stats.
Planet Stats table: This shows planet name, owner species, population, hab and ore concentration. It also shows a breakdown of how many of what type of building there is and how much shield power the planet has on it, as well as a comparison of what makes the hab. It also tells you "Wormhole Links" which refers to the planets you should see on colonisation of your planet.
Clicking on an ally planet will also tell you leader, empire and alliance names, as well as having the hab the planet is for you. It will not give you a building breakdown.
Clicking on an enemy, neutral or napped planet tells you the minimum details. These are, planet name, leader, empire and alliance names, species, and status {Neutral, enemy or NAP).
On every planet that has incoming ships the stats table will tell you which fleets they are, who owns them and how many ticks till they arrive.
Right menu: On your own planets the menu shows: Planet info, Starships, Buildings and has a link to return to the map. On other planets it will not show the buildings link. The menu options will be explained later in this section. This menu, will also show a "battle" link when there are enemy ships on the planet or when your ships are on an enemy planet.
Left menu: Contains Upkeep, Rename and Colonise links. On other planets there is no left menu.
The other clickable thing on the map is the starships themselves. This will allow you to move ships not engaged in battle.
Planet Menu Breakdown
Left menu:
- Rename: Allows you to rename your planet
- Colonise: Allows you to colonise your planet
- Abandon: Allows you to abandon a planet so it becomes grey {Uncolonised}.
Right Menu:
- Planet Info: Gives you the planet statistics screen
- Buildings: Tells you how many of what buildings are being constructed on your planets as well as how many you have built in total of each type. It will also tell you how many total buildings are being built and the time it will take for them to build.
- Starships: This is divided into 3 sections: Select Alliance, Select
Ship, and Select Fleet. The Select alliance lets you pick whether you look
at an allies ships on the planet, an enemies or your own. Select Fleet
allows you to pick which fleet you look at belonging to the alliance you
picked and select ship allows you to look at individual ships within a
fleet. This last option will also tell you hull and shield percentages
on the drop down as well as telling you what class it belongs to.
- Select Alliance: Shows you Fleet name, Fleet owner, Fleet size and Fleet strength.
- Select Fleet: This gives you several tables. The first is Starfleet and this will tell you fleet name, owner, and which planet it's on. The next is fleet info and this tells you how many ships in the fleet, what species owns it and the speed of the fleet. The 3rd table is Admiral and tells you what bonuses are given by any officers attached to the fleet. The last one is Fleet stats and this tells you what the fleets integrity is based on how much damage the fleet has taken.
- Select Ship: This is a more detailed breakdown of the individual ships statistics and tells you the ships current stats, with any damage compared to it's undamaged starting stats.