SWARM MMO

Energy & Tech Upgrades

Energy

Suns are the only source of energy: every sun you own adds 1 energy per minute to your balance, shown in the Tech panel. Collapsing a galaxy's black hole pays no energy directly, it permanently raises that rate by one per sun instead (see Prestige). Energy is never shared inside a clan.

Tech upgrades

Nine upgrades, each running to level 100. They only help planets and swarms inside the radius of a sun owned by you or a clan ally; outside one, nothing is boosted.

The four branches

The upgrades sit in four branches, and each one gates the tech that exploits a situation behind the tech that creates it. The first step in a branch needs level 20 in the one above it; the second needs level 40.

A requirement only decides when an upgrade unlocks. Once you own a level in it, it stays open whatever else you spend.

What a level costs

A tech level costs 100 × the square of the level you are buying, in energy: 100 to reach level 1, 400 for level 2, 900 for level 3, 2,500 for level 5, and 1,000,000 for level 100.

Running one tech all the way to level 100 costs 33,835,000 energy in total, so the upper half of the tree is a long-term goal for players with several collapses behind them. This is separate from the planet upgrade cost, which is paid in probes.

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