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fact, one of the ways to win a standard game is to have eight sector bonuses at once. The other way to win a standard game is by owning 90 major sites (minor sites don't count). Please note Victory Conditions can change from game to game. Check for your game's Victory Conditions at the start of the game. Victory conditions for the game are explained in Chapter Nine. 2.3 Sample Income Listing EP(PE) EP(OR) EP(DC) EP(FP) Terrain Currently 150 200 225 175 01-1014 25 30 20 35 PL+ES 02-0910 100 100 100 100 WP+ES 02-1103 30 55 0 25 GG+NF 02-1107 0 0 95 0 DA+ES 02-1210 15 0 0 0 CS+ES 02-1516 70 0 0 25 DP+IS New Total 390 385 440 360 Adjustments (+240) (+185) (+215) (+185) The table above is a simplified example of what you might see in one of your turn results. (Note: The terrain abbreviations shown, such as "PL" for planet, will be explained in detail in the next chapter.) The report first shows your current total in the four types of resources (people, ores, dilithium and food), then lists the sites you own (by sector and hex location) and what they produce. The total you earned from these sites is shown as "adjustments" which, when added to your previous total, yields the New Total. (This Corporation started with 150 EP since people are the lowest resource and ends the income phase with 360 EPs since FP is now its lowest resource.) Think of the adjustments as your true income. It is basically a sum of all the sites you own. This amount added to your current total (the amount you had in your treasury before the turn began) yields the amount of money you will have to spend that turn. Note that prospecting income, described below, is not included here - you will earn this at the time your ships actually perform the prospecting (and can use it immediately). This all sounds complicated, but everything will become clear as you participate in the game! Note: Since income is generated before orders are issued, you can always count on your Home Office to produce 100 economic points (if you lose your Home Office, you are dead anyway, unless you can take it back during that turn). This means that during your initial build, you'll be able to spend 400 points - the 300 already in your treasury, and the 100 your HO will produce at the start of the turn! 2.4 Capturing Sites The best way to get more money is to go out and capture as many sites as you can. To conquer a site, you must first defeat its guards and fortifications (if any). Once you have done this, you control the site and can fortify it yourself, or move your own ships there to defend it. At the start of the game, most sites (except Home Offices) are uncontrolled, and so taking them over will be a simple matter for even the smallest starship. You do not have to remain at a site for any length of time to capture it-simply fly one or more ships into its hex during your turn, and if you defeat its guards and fortifications, it's yours! Your ship can then move on and do other things (perhaps even attack another site, if one is close enough!) Because of the sequence of play, income is generated first during your turn, then all orders are processed. So, if you conquer any sites, they won't produce any income for you until the start of your next turn - assuming no one takes them away from you in the interim, of course! 2.5 Defending Your Sites After you conquer a site, it might be wise to defend it. There are two ways to do this-ships and fortifications. Ships are easy to explain: Just leave one or more ships at the site, and it will defend that site if it is attacked. Certain ships (defense and aegis variants, for example) are very good at this. The other way to defend a site is with fortifications. Fortifications are basically economic points you spend on an individual site for this purpose. As you add to the fortification level, you add defense satellites (often called "defsats," or simply "satellites"), and when it reaches a certain level, a base will be constructed. Note: You cannot fortify a site on the same turn you capture it. Revised 30 June 2010 Page 8
Bases are important both for site defense and as a resupply point, as your ships can use them to pick up optional items and conduct needed repairs and other actions. Bases can also make automatic scans each turn without any effort on your part. However, keep in mind that you cannot buy ships at bases - only at your Home Office or a special ship known as a Warp Gate (described in Chapter Four). Please take note of this, as many new players forget this detail. The method used to fortify a site, and the other advantages of bases, are explained in Chapter Seven. Early in the game you will not be able to defend sites very often-you need the ships to continue expanding and exploring the galaxy, and you need the economic points to buy more ships! But you should probably build a base in each new sector you enter, as a strategic point of operations. You'll also need to defend your Home Office, although you can wait a few turns for this, since no one will be able to attack it until at least a few turns into the game. It's very rare for a player to be destroyed before turn 8! 2.6 Devastated Sites It is possible for a site to become devastated during the course of play. Normally this is done by a player as part of a "scorched-planet" strategy, wherein he voluntarily devastates the world so that you cannot benefit from it. Obviously, this sort of thing will only be done on sites that cannot be held. Any ship with a crew level higher than 1 can devastate a site by issuing the NUKE order (see Chapter Six). A site can also become devastated if a large number of drones are used to bombard it and no fortifications are present as a defense. Drone bombardment is also discussed in Chapter Six under the description of the BOMB order. If a site becomes devastated, it will not produce any resources for its owner until its production is restored. Any ship can do this by moving to the site and issuing the RESTore order (yes, you guessed it, see Chapter Six). The cost is an amount of resources equal to the site's normal production levels. For example, if the site is a Dual Planet which produces 75 People and 30 Food, it will cost you 75 PE and 30 FP to restore it. Survey ships will pay only half this amount, so you'll want to use such ships whenever possible. If a site has been devastated, it will be shown with an "@" character on your Income List at the start of your turn, to indicate that it produced nothing for you on that turn. However, its value will still be listed for your reference. 2.7 Prospecting Prospecting is an entirely different way to earn money. Unlike income produced automatically by the sites and sectors you own, prospecting is accomplished by ships during their movement phase of the turn. Ships must issue an order to do this, an order which takes the entire turn to complete, whereas normal income is produced without any effort on your part (once you have captured the appropriate sites, of course). Prospecting income is available for use on the same turn it is collected. Prospecting cannot be performed just anywhere. In fact, there are few terrains which are actually worthwhile to prospect. The terrain charts in Chapter Three will tell you how many EPs you can expect to get out of any given hex. Most hexes can be prospected only once, so this form of income is limited. However, don't ignore this method of earning economic points, because you'll need all the money you can get if you want to conquer the Greater Magellanic Cloud. Regardless of your Home Office's terrain, its prospecting value will begin play at zero. DON'T FORGET TO PROSPECT! Try to arrange to prospect at least one or two hexes a turn. Buy a few ships with prospecting in mind and use them in that role exclusively. Not all terrain is prospectable, so check the terrain list in the Appendices before sending a ship to prospect a hex. 2.8 Surveying Moons Moons are another source of potential income. Moons occur only around sites, usually planets and gas giants, and have the capability of increasing the value of your site. However, in order to do this, the site must be surveyed. A survey ship is required, and it must move into the hex and issue the SRVY order (described in Chapter Six). Once the site has been surveyed, each moon produces 1 EP thereafter (added to the basic value of the site). If the site is captured, the surveyed state is lost and it will have to be re-surveyed before they will produce income again. However, there is another side to moons. If unsurveyed, they will build up the prospecting value of their hex over time! The site does not have to be owned by anyone to do this, so an unprospected hex with many moons can be worth quite a bit of cash in later turns. The more moons a site has, the more EPs will build up! If the site has been surveyed, the moons will stop adding to the prospecting value (since they are now providing income instead), but any built-up EPs remain until prospected. Revised 30 June 2010 Page 9
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