Credits & Cosmetics
Credits buy cosmetics and tools for managing an empire you already have. They never grant probes, production or combat strength.
What they buy
- Skins: animated looks for your planets, suns and swarms that everyone can see. Preview them live before buying.
- Colour: recolor your empire (50 credits per change).
- Reset upgrades: refund all energy spent on tech and reset it to level 0, from the Tech panel (500 credits).
- Command Center: select planets, suns, black holes and bases by condition and apply one action to all of them (150 credits for 30 days, or 10 for a single day).
Where they come from
You can buy them in the Customize panel (the palette icon), or earn them three ways:
- Hold a meteorite for its hour: 1 credit.
- Finish each of the three quests: 10 credits apiece, once.
- Invite a player who reaches 1,000 total energy: 100 credits.
Earning works on a guest account, and credits you earn as a guest follow you into the account you sign into. Spending them needs a verified email.
Invite links
The Customize panel also holds your invite link, swarm-mmo.com/?ref=CODE. When somebody starts a new account through it and reaches 1,000 total energy, you get 100 credits. There is no limit on how many invites you can be paid for.
Energy comes from owned suns at 1 per sun per minute, so that bar is around 17 hours of holding one. The reward arrives long after the player signs up, and only if they stay. The same panel shows how many people you have invited and how many have paid out.