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Non-resource trading

• Plants are stored in deposits before you plant them
  
• The game states that a fully-grown plant will drop seeds into nearby empty planters, but I never managed to have that luxury.
  
• Plants cannot be sold or traded, only tossed away when still in "cargo" phase or killed at the greenhouse

Clonable species fall into a handful of classes (based on stats).
Classes differ in stats between each other, but not within the same class.

Same class species on the same level have identical max hp, intelligence and resistance and differ only with immunity and required environment gas.


Versatile 3 resistance = Tank 3 resistance = Engineer 2 resistance

Intelligence can be inferred from the names of classes - Engineers > versatiles > heavies > tanks
Versatile 3 intelligence < Engineer 2 intelligence
Engineer 3 intelligence is obviously the maximum amount possible, while Tank 1 is the lowest possible.

Since resources in any given galaxy are finite, it is imperative that you know what to use them on.

Defenses:

• Turrets
  
• Energy Barriers

Harvester upgrades must be found on planets.
Harvester upgrades:

• Entrance Barrier [1000 hp]
  
• Harvester Speed
  
• Biotank Capacity [+10 -> 30 total]
  
• Extra turret
  
• Enhanced cargo [5 -> 10 cargo slots]

Researching a clone from unknown to level 1: 03 Radiation Blue + 10 clone samples
Researching a clone from level 1 to level 2: 05 Radiation Blue + 10 clone samples
Researching a clone from level 2 to level 3: 10 Radiation Blue + 10 clone samples

Researching a weapon from unknown to level 1: 0? Radiation Blue + 10 weapon samples
Researching a weapon from level 1 to level 2: 05 Radiation Blue + 10 weapon samples
Researching a weapon from level 2 to level 3: 10 Radiation Blue + 10 weapon samples

Researching a defense from level 1 to level 2: 05 Radiation Blue + 10 weapon samples
Researching a defense from level 2 to level 3: 10 Radiation Blue + 10 weapon samples

You can find ready-made ammo at planets (near POI sites) or as drops from enemy (both stowaways and on planets). This makes raw materials which you can turn only into ammo the primary choice for trading.

There are 6 types of ammo in the game. Each of those can have only 24 packs of ammo in weapon racks at any given time.

Ammo types and sizes:

Weapons' basic stats

You can type in the galaxy seed and/or click on the values to set up your galaxy.

I haven't played with the generator yet, so I am not sure about some of the settings yet.


Functionally, first 8 characters of Galaxy seed are the actual seed, the other 11 characters are settings.
E.g. galaxy
with everything on minimum is functionally the same galaxy as
with every setting on maximum.

Galaxy seeds have to conform to the below regular expression or they will self-mutate after first click anywhere to conform to it:

List of alien types according to research type (weapon, ability, dna fragments)

• You can get a full refund on some modules (e.g. storage if you are full and therefore cannot use tractor beam or refine materials), not counting the reinforcement to them, though
  
• Do not use Grenade Launcher inside, it's a bit unpredictable and might end up as unplanned suicide
  
• When farming enemies on the planet - if you happen to lose track of their drops, fear not - move far enough away and some of the foliage sprites will disappear, while the drop sprites will still be visible

• Colspan/rowspan tables (multiple plants with O2 type - merge cell) impossible in Steam's limited table implementation
  
• List alien types according to research type (weapon, ability, dna fragments)
  
• Sort tables