Guides
Daily rewards and games
The bonus, free dark matter, the lucky draw, the lottery and the jackpot: what each pays and how often.
The dock at the bottom of the game screen collects everything you can claim or play for. This universe offers:
The bonus
The bonus can be claimed every 30 minutes. Every claim pays the guaranteed rewards plus a few random picks, and claiming on days in a row builds a streak that unlocks better picks. A gap of more than 1 day without a claim ends the streak.
You can claim the bonus at most 12 times a day; after that it opens again at midnight in the universe's time zone.
The academy points a claim pays are spent on governors (Governors).
Daily dark matter
Collect dark matter once a day. The day turns at midnight in the universe's time zone.
Claiming on days in a row builds a streak: the first day of each week of it pays 1,000, the seventh 4,000, and long streaks add extra rewards on their milestone days. A missed day starts the streak again.
Lucky draw
The lucky draw pays a load of resources sized to your empire's production, for at most 5,000 dark matter. You can draw again 1 day later.
A draw pays 12 to 168 hours of your empire's own production, picked at random, the shorter draws far more often. Its price follows your production: 50% of what a draw pays on average, and never less than 500 dark matter.
Lottery
Tickets are bought with resources: 50,000 metal, 25,000 crystal and 10,000 deuterium per ticket, up to 10 per player and round. When the draw time comes and at least 3 players hold tickets, the winners are drawn, weighted by their tickets.
The pot is 70% of what the tickets cost, counted in dark matter, and the first, second and third place take 50%, 30% and 20% of it. With fewer players the draw waits 1 day and every ticket stays in the pot.
Jackpot
Guess a code from 0 to 999. A wrong guess tells you how close you came, without saying in which direction: burning within 10, hot within 30, warm within 100, cold beyond. Every guess uses an attempt. The first right guess wins the round, and the next round opens 6 hours later.
After a win the prize starts again at 5,000 dark matter and grows by 1,000 every 12 hours, up to 50,000. You get 5 free attempts a day; more are sold in packages for dark matter.
Questions
Do I lose my bonus streak if I miss a day?
A long enough gap ends the streak and it starts again from the first day. The streak shield boost protects it while it runs.
Are the games worth playing?
They are a small extra. Mines and fleets decide a universe; the games only speed things up now and then.