Tips to get started and grow. First thing everyone must do to be able to continue is. 1. build Solar Plant 2. buld mines Titanium 3 Graphene 2 Deuterium 1 (keep at this rate in the early stages) (Remember to keep upgrading Solar plant as you nead the energy) 3. Focus on completing the First Missions (above Overview) (The tab next to Research Will have the info of what you nead to open somthing you nead) 4. get expodision Research to be able to get more planets ( new planets at Level 1 Level 3 Level 5 and so on) 5. get a collony ship 6. collonice a new planet ( I would segest to place your first Collony in the same System as your main and after that go between 50 and 75 systems away with each new planet) 7. start to focus on your fleer open cruisers and build a fleet ( use your fleet to gather resources faster than with only mines ) (if you are online a lot it's fastest to send out only light cargo to defenceless IA with all your fleet slots as regular as possible) 8 . use your resourses you gain to do more research and biger and better fleet( only start focus on getting big fleet if you have an income that can build 100+ battle cruisers a day) 9. I would segest if you go ofline send your ships on a low speed to be back at the time you are back on and use your resourses For defence before you sleep at night 10. build a market so if you online during an attack you can place your resourses there (you can delete the offer again after 12 hours 11. now that's that is done get a planet on number 1.2 or 3 in the system get research lab to level 12 and a nanite factory then build Solar sats to get the energy and research gravity tech 12. now its time to open the battle forces and build is (I would segest to get nanite level 3 or higher before building them) 13. get computer technology to level 15 to have lots of fleet slots and make sure to use all except 1 of them for farming most of the time 14 now you should have an excellent income now to better your attack power you should try and get your wepons shield and armour technology all to level 20 15. now you have a big fleet good income and it's time to work towards the university and build 1 16. If you did all the above then now it's up to you to be working hard getting your black moons , avatars , gravity cannons and even orbit defence platform