Strategy & Maps

Multi-select

You can command several of your planets at once. There are two ways to build a selection:

• Click one of your planets, suns or black holes and pick Select, then repeat on more of them.
• Switch on Box in the bottom-right corner (or press B) and drag across empty space. A box replaces the selection; hold Shift, or set the Box button to add, to extend it instead. Ctrl-drag draws a box without switching the mode on. A box catching more than one kind picks planets over suns, and suns over black holes.

The top-center readout shows how many are selected, and Clear empties the selection; clicking empty space or pressing Escape does the same. While a selection is live, hovering a body draws a line to it from every selected source, with what would arrive and how long it would take.

Click an enemy or neutral planet, or a sun, to attack it from all selected planets or suns at once. The percentage you pick is sent from each one. Holding SPACE sets attack automation for the whole group instead. The selection stays after you send, so you can pick the next target and attack again right away.

The readout's buttons act on the whole selection. For planets: Upgrade raises the level of each one that can afford it, and Auto toggles upgrade automation. NoAuto clears the attack automations of selected planets or the relays of selected suns. Only one kind is selected at a time; selecting a planet, sun or black hole clears the other two.

Zoom levels

Zooming out drops detail in three steps. Planets and suns become squares and the map buttons appear. Further out, only suns, black holes and meteorites are drawn, so a galaxy reads as a cluster of dots. Furthest out, a galaxy is a single disk in the colour of whoever holds its black hole, grey if it is still neutral. A collapsed galaxy leaves an empty patch of grid. The black hole's countdown moves to the middle of the disk.

Holding a galaxy

A galaxy you mean to keep needs a garrison on its black hole from day 14, which is the same stockpile a rewarded collapse needs (see Black Holes).

There is always at least one galaxy with room in it that you can reach from outside, so an established player never has to wait for a border to open to have a target (see Attacking & Capture).

Maps

Switch between the Default, Strategic and Logistics maps with the buttons in the bottom-right corner while zoomed out. All three are free.

Strategic map: recolors everything by relation (blue for you, green for allies, red for enemies), draws attack lines, and blinks any planet or sun under attack.

Logistics map: draws your supply lines and blinks your planets that are missing automations, so gaps in your coverage stand out.

Focus panel

The Focus button opens a panel rather than jumping the camera directly. Quick focus does what the button used to: centre on your largest holding, a black hole before a sun, a sun before a planet, and otherwise whichever has the most probes.

Below it, tabs list every planet, sun and black hole you own, and every probe movement you are part of: attacks and reinforcements you sent, probes moving between your own planets, and support or attacks arriving from someone else. Clicking a body centres the camera on it; clicking a movement centres on the probes at their current position, wherever they are along the line.