Astroempires

Astro Empires, more importantly known as Astro empires, AE is an online space strategy browser based game set in a huge universe full of players from around the world. The game is reported to house a little under 35,000 players and contains 5 servers. The game has received good reviews and notice for its complex design as a browser-based game and, for having similar effects like real strategies.

Gameplay-Basic Menus

In astro empires you start of as an owner of 1 base, which you can give a name to. Then you have certain menus available in that base such as Structures(To build), Defence(To build turrets/Planetery Defences), Production(Produce units(fighters, recyclers, dreadnoughts, death stars)), and Overview to see your bases current status.

Goal of Astro Empires

The goal of Astro Empires is to gain economy, which governs how many "credits you will receive at the end of every hour. Credits are AE's monetary unit. The other goal is to build a large fleet that you will be able to battle other online players with. You are also able to make your own guild in which you will be able to form NAPS( Non-agression Pacts), MDPS(mutual Defence Pacts, TPS(trade pacts), and Alliances(aliances)

Gameplay-Construction

Constructing structures in the game is simply, you go to the menu which says "structures" and upgrade their levels. These are a list of structures and their benefits:

-Urban Structures: Increases your population capacity, without population you cannot construct new things.

-Solar Energy: Upgrade increases Base Energy output by Base Solar Energy.(1,2,3 or 4)

-Gas Plants: Upgrade increases Base Energy output by Base Gas resource. (1,2,3,4 or 5)

-Fusion Plants: Upgrade increases Base Energy output by 4. -Research Labs: Upgrade increases Base Research capacity by 6, and allows the Research of more Technologies.

-Metal Refineries: Upgrade increases Production and Construction capacity by Base Metal resource.(1,2, or 3)

-Robotic Factories: Upgrade increases Production and Construction capacity by 2. -Shipyards: Upgrade increases Base Production by 2 and allows the Production of more Units. -Spaceports: Upgrade increases Base Economy by 2 and allows trade routes.

-Antimatter Plant: Upgrade increases Base Energy output by 10.

-Crystal Mines: Upgrade increases Base Economy by Base Crystals resource (1, 2 or 3)

-Orbital Shipyards: Upgrade increases Base Production by 8, allows the Production of more Units and doesn't require area on the Base.

-Command Center: Upgrade increases the number of Occupied Bases you can have by 1, and add 5% Fleet attack power at Base location. Also lets you recruit commanders to defend your bases.

-Nanite Factories: Upgrade increases Production and Construction capacity by 4.

-Android Factories: Upgrade increases Production and Construction capacity by 6.

-Economic Centers: Upgrade increases Base Economy by 3.

-Terraform: Upgrade increases Base Construction Area by 5, doesn't require Population.

-Multi-Level Platforms: Upgrade increases Base Construction Area by 10, doesn't require Population.

-Orbital Base: Upgrade increase Population capacity by 10 and doesn't require area on the Base.

-Jump gates: Upgrade increases Fleet speed by 100%, allows Stellar units to move between Galaxies (can be used by guild members).

-Biosphere Modification: Upgrade increases Astro Fertility by 1.

-Capital: Upgrade increases Base econ. by 10 and all others bases by 1; Can only exist at one base; -15% empire income while occupied.

Gameplay-Combat/Production

Fighter:Cost: 5 CreditsUseful For: Defending Base, &Fighter Drops(dropping a large amount of fighters on an enemy bases to try to use cheap units to destroy your opponents larger ones)

Bomber:Cost:10 CreditsUseful for:Defending base, Destroying Low shielded unit, & Bomber Drops(dropping a large amount of Bombers on an enemy bases to try to use cheap units to destroy your opponents larger ones)

Corvette:Cost: 20 CreditsUseful For:Scouting Jobs, and for Fast strikes against your enemy.

Recycler:Cost: 30 CreditsUseful For:collecting debris(which appear after you have been in combat with one of you opponents and have destroyed some of their ships)

Research

The Galaxies

There are currently five servers, or 'Universes', named Alpha, Beta, Ceti, Delta, and Epsilon. Alpha is the oldest, and Epsilon the newest. There is about 1 new server per 180 days. Each server is different and they are not linked together.

Galaxies are set in clusters, 00-09, 10-19, and so on. In Astroempires, the distances are calculated in light years. The distance between 1 galaxy to another is 200 light years, and the distance between each cluster is 2000 light years. The distance between each cluster is also the same.

Exemple of how you calculate the distances: 05 to 06 = 200 LY (Light Years). 05 to 04 = 200 LY. 01 to 09 = 1600 LY. 01 to 10 = 3600 LY. 09 to 10 = 2000 LY. 09 to 20 = 2000 LY.