The goal of the game is to collect as much Betirium as possible. The player who has collected the highest total amount of Betirium by the end of the game wins.
Total Collected Betirium Includes:
- Shipped Betirium
- Betirium stored at the base
- Betirium currently carried by the player's units
The length of a cell side is 20km.
The map features two terrain types: sand fields and mountains.
Units cannot traverse mountain cells; they must navigate around them.
There is a number of Betirium areas on the map.
Betirium density within an area decreases exponentially from the area center outwards.
Each turn, the player receives 20 units of supplies for free, and a certain amount of supplies for the Betirium sent on the previous turn. For every kg of Betirium sent, the player will receive 5 units of supplies.
Each unit has a "tank" for supplies of a certain capacity. Each unit consumes 1 unit of supplies at the end of each hour.
When a unit runs out of supplies, its sight range gets decreased to 5.1 km and the unit becomes inactive until refilled.
After refilling, the unit resumes executing its previous order.
In addition to the base, players can construct Depots to manage supplies more efficiently. Depots are created by deploying Depot Carriers.
Depots act as additional supply sources: units can refuel supplies at Depots just like at the base.
While refilling at a supply source, if a unit cannot refill to a full tank, it will not refill at all (waiting for supplies to appear at the source).
Harvesters refill "automatically" when unloading Betirium at the base.
Supply Trucks with active orders will refill as much as they can.
Damage affects the unit's movement speed, leaving other functions unchanged.
Health >75%: no change.
Health between 75% and 25%: speed decreases linearly from 100% to 50%.
Health <25%: speed reduced to 50%.
When guarding, the Cannon selects targets based on estimated time to eliminate, factoring in remaining health of the potential target and prioritizing military targets first. It attacks enemies within its firing range, even if they are visible to other units, not the Cannon itself.
During attacks, the Cannon aims before firing. Target movement during aiming reduces shot accuracy; stationary targets maintain full accuracy, while moving targets result in 50% accuracy.
The Cannon can only attack enemies that are at least 5 kms away from it.
After creation, the Depot Carrier unit is in Park mode: it does not consume supplies and has a sight range of 5.1 km.
The Depot Carrier has the following commands:
- Deploy:
- The unit moves to the specified point, and upon arrival, transforms into a Depot, which has capacity only for supplies.
- Move & Park:
- Moves to the specified location and switches to Park mode upon arrival.
Depot Carrier and Depot have different health point amounts and different supply capacities. Upon deployment, the Depot receives the same percentage of health as the Depot Carrier had. It also retains the same amount of supplies.
When harvesting, a Harvester will extract 5% of the Betirium content of the cell over the course of 1 hour.
When selecting a cell to harvest at, the Harvester considers the time it takes to fill its tank at that location, along with the time needed to return to the base while staying within the harvesting area.
When a Harvester arrives to the base for unloading or to refill supplies, it will first unload Betirium and then attempt to refill itself with supplies (even if it still has some in the tank).
Harvesters have an option called "Refill on Low Supplies". When enabled, the Harvester will automatically return to the nearest supply source (base or Depot) to refill supplies when they drop close to zero.
When assigned to patrol, the Patrol Buggy checks for visible enemies within the zone.
If no enemies are present, it moves randomly within the zone.
If enemies are detected, the Patrol Buggy prioritizes attacking military units first, based on the estimated time to eliminate, factoring in travel time and the enemy's remaining health. If no military units are present, it will still attack other units. It engages when within a 5km combat radius.
Scout Bikes strive not to be seen by other units. They use public information about other units' sight ranges for that, not exact values of actual enemies' unit models.
They do not avoid areas seen by other players' bases.
Supply Trucks can perform the following commands:
- Support:
- Refill all units within a designated zone.
- Move:
- Direct the Supply Truck to a specific location without engaging in refueling activities.
- Shuttle:
- Set up a continuous route between two points (e.g., base and Depot) to transport supplies automatically.
Supply Trucks support zones by refilling all units within the zone. A truck will pick up supplies from the nearest supply source and travel to the zone to refill units located there.
If a Supply Truck is stuck without supplies within a supported zone, other Supply Trucks will refill it up to the amount required for the recipient Supply Truck to return to the nearest supply source and refill itself.
To refill a unit, a Supply Truck has to be within 10km of the receiving unit.
Within a turn, Engineering can brainstorm, build a unit or undertake a research/design ("R&D") project.
Brainstorming may lead to "discovering" a project, so that the player can undertake it.
A research project unlocks other R&D projects to be discovered by the player.
Designing a new unit introduces a new model for production, with some parameters predefined (e.g., Betirium tank capacity) and others subject to slight variability (e.g., speed, health points).
Note that these variable parameters are randomly chosen for the model and will remain consistent across all units of the same model; they won't differ among produced units.
The player receives a prototype unit immediately after design, with randomly chosen parameters that are generally inferior to those of regular units. Regular units, with superior parameters, become available for production from the next turn onwards.
When designing a new model, parameters for 'regular' units are established first. Then, for the prototype, each parameter's value is randomly adjusted to be between 70% and 100% of the value for the regular model.
Consider a newly designed harvester with a variable speed ranging from 25 to 35.
If 33 is selected as the speed for the regular model (within the range of 25 to 35), and the random adjustment factor is 75%, the resulting speed for the prototype would be 24 (rounded down).
Regularly produced harvesters will maintain the chosen speed of 33.
Brainstorming has a certain chance of sucess, which is known beforehand.
If the player has completed any R&D project since the last successful brainstorming, the chance of discovering a new project during the brainstorm is 75%, otherwise it is 30%.
Within the first 5 turns of the game those chances are 100% and 42% respectively.
graph TD;
harvester(Harvester\nALWAYS BRAINSTORMED);
harvester-->ballistics-1(Ballistics 1);
ballistics-1-->cannon(Cannon);
cannon-->long-range-cannon(Long Range Cannon);
harvester-->engine-1(Engine 1);
engine-1-->high-speed-harvester(High Speed Harvester);
engine-1-->extra-capacity-harvester(Extra Capacity Harvester);
harvester-->patrol-buggy(Patrol Buggy);
harvester-->scout-bike(Scout Bike);
harvester-->supply-truck(Supply Truck);
supply-truck-->depot-carrier(Depot Carrier);