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| - | === Basic Gameplay === | + | ====== Basic Gameplay |
| - | - Set up an energy system | ||
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| - | - Establish a base of operations | ||
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| - | - Set up a factory processing system | ||
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| - | - Protect against threats | ||
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| - | - Expand achieve required objectives | ||
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| - | - Optionally achieve additional objectives | ||
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| + | ===== 1: Choose starting location ===== | ||
| - | {{pending.png}} | + | Choose a safe area to land your Rift Lab. Pay attention to natural resources as well as boosters such as energy supplies (UltraC units, Resource Pods, etc.) that may give you a faster start-up. |
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| + | ===== 2: Set up an energy system ===== | ||
| - | <color=green>< | + | The most common energy supply is from building towers and the green //soylent// they generate. The towers are also the network that transmits energy and other wares to and from units. |
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| + | Building Miners on Resource terrain can also add to your energy supply. \\ | ||
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| + | ===== 3: Establish a base of operations ===== | ||
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| + | Build the minimum necessary units to defend your base from incoming creeper and other attacks. Pay particular attention to the mini-map that shows all enemy locations, | ||
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| + | ===== 4: Set up a factory processing system ===== | ||
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| + | Some weapons and mission objectives require \wares\. | ||
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| + | The types of wares are as follows: | ||
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| + | ^ Ware ^ Resource ^ How obtained ^ | ||
| + | | Anticreeper | Bluite | ||
| + | | ::: | ::: | Connect network to Bluite ore | | ||
| + | | Arg | Redon | Connect network to Redon ore | | ||
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| + | ===== 5: Collect and Use ERN crystals ===== | ||
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| + | Ern Crystals can provide overall boosts to capabilities if they are installed in the ERN Portal, or some units allow individual upgrades (range, firing speed, etc.) when a unit has been allocated an ERN from the command, Some ERNs are buried and a Terp is required to dig them out. | ||
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| + | ===== 6: Objectives ===== | ||
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| + | Some maps have required objectives. You should achieve these to obtain a victory. | ||
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| + | There may be additional, optional objectives. | ||
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