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Manage Economy

Economy is one of the most important factors in the game. Empires relies on economy in order to survive. Economy micromanagement is divided into three main sections which are:

Systems Management
Planets are organized into system & there are numbers of system types available. Each has specific bonus for specific purposes. Selection of systems for your empire is vital & careful consideration must be done before picking one.
Planets Management
Planets are one of the most important resources in the game which you cannot simply buy. Planets are used to support your empire economy and it is the most important asset of your empire. Suffice to say that the more planets you have, the more powerful you will become.
Market
Inter-galactic market plays an important role to the survival of an empire. Varieties of resources are sold here which are required in the process of constructing fleets and temples. Few races depend on market to generate their economy.

Systems Management

There are a lot of unexplored planets in the universe which will need to be explored by races capable of exploring. Usually, these unexplored planets have a small, uncivilized population with no offensive or defensive capability and will always be willing to join any empire that comes to their planet.

Races with exploring capabilities won't have the privilege of having better military ships so they can build up their empire by exploring for more planets while races that can't explore will resolve to capturing planets from other empires.

How large an empire is will be judged by the number of planets in its empire. The more planets an empire has means the more resources it can gather in a turn. All empires will have to defend their planets. Therefore, they will need to build ships that, in turn, need resources. It's a complete cycle of resource needs through production needs.

Managing your planets properly is the key to efficiently gather more resources with fewer turns. To do this, you will need to understand how it works. To ease management of planets in an empire, a practical way of organizing planets into systems is used by all races in the universe, a method used since the beginning of universal expeditions. No one has any ideas on making it better. Anyone with better ideas should suggest it to the universe then the whole universe can use it as well. It is good to suggest them to the Space Federation as they keep the rules in the universe efficient.

System Types

Empires organize planets into system. Most empires gain control over 1 to 8 systems. An empire will start off with one system and can build new systems as they expand. The more systems you have, the better your empire is. However, be careful because this will lure stronger empires into invading your empire.

Images below are the most common systems available in the game. To view details of each system, please click on it.


Capital	Dark	Eden	Farm	Heavy


Orion	Rich	Sol	Titan	Urania

Every system you own will have a different number of planets (refer to Figure 1) and different “system bonuses”. These bonuses can be of mining, commerce or military advantages. It is advised to use them wisely.

**Figure 1 :** Different amount of planets per system

System bonus determines the usefulness of a particular system. In Figure 1, Eden system has positive system bonus on housing. This is complementary for your strategies reflect on Infrastructure Upgrade.

	To manage your systems, click on Command Menu : Manage Empire > Economy > Manage Planets, Figure 1 will appear on Primary Display and you can see the mineral produced as in the circle.

Minerals

Each system produce mineral but only limited to a mineral per system. The quantity of minerals produced for each system depends on the system bonus plus the total number of planets available in that system.

**Figure 2 :** Each system produce Minerals

Minerals produced by systems are different among each others. It depends on lucks on what mineral can be produce when you created new system. There are 7 types of minerals available which are (1) ore, (2) terran metal, (3) red crystal, (4) white crystal, (5) rutile, (6) composite, and (7) strafez organism.

To check on the type of mineral you can mine click on Command Menu : Manage Empire > Economy > Manage Planets, Figure 2 will appear on Left Display and you can see the mineral produced as in the circle.

The type of mineral you will get from newly created systems is random. It depends on your luck. It is possible to have all type of minerals but you will be it is not easy to get one

Defense Bonus

There are 2 types of defense bonus. The first is the Empire Bonus which gives you a defensive bonus to all systems that falls below that particular system. For example, if Dark VK Empire Bonus is 3% then all systems, which in this case is Eden M5, will receive an additional 3% added to its defensive bonus. The second is System Defense Bonuses. System defense is the defense for this particular system only, and does not affect other systems.

**Figure 3 :** System defense bonus

Referring to Figure 3, Eden M5 has 8% defense bonus, 5% which is the System Defense and 3% which is the Empire Defense provided by Dark VK. Basically, the further inside the system is the higher the defense of that system.

To check on the type of mineral you can mine click on Command Menu : Manage Empire > Economy > Manage Planets, Figure 3 will appear on Left Display and you can see the defense bonus as in the circle.

System defense bonus play an important role in defending your empire but it depends on your overall strategy. If you prefer to manage only home system, build Dark systems on top of your home system. As a result, your home system defense will be very high.

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Manage Economy

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Defense Bonus