Overview of this game for potential players

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All the below is based on the closed beta, which I was top 15 in 'total points' for. I quit after around 3 weeks.

First of all, this game is pay 2 win. You can buy premium weapons and ships which surpass anything you can manufacture normally. You can also pay to have your base upgraded so it produces things like double resources, extra production and energy, etc.

You can get premium weapons from quests or farming premium currency from certain clouds, but it is very slow and someone who drops $5 a month will easily surpass you.

As for the gameplay, it is the generic farmville style gameplay, (build resource collectors, build factories to make stuff) except you have to grind heavily. By grind heavily I mean you have to do battles against the AI in your space ship in order to gain credits. There is no other viable way to earn credits besides grinding the AI over and over, it is very tedious and annoying.

There is PvP but I dont feel like going in depth, because it is very unlikely you will be getting very much PvP action. Basically you can raid bases,and take over extra asteroids ownedby other players, which is very hard (if not close to impossible) without premium ships and weapons.

EDITS: I forgot to mention this game has a global market you can build, and the prices have hard coded price ceilings and floors, meaning the economy is fucking worthless.

Overall this game really just wants your money, and it shows. If you like this type of game I would recommend clash of clans instead, supercell respects its players a lot more.