User Guide

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CRITICAL MOVEMENTS
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CREDITS ( MONEY ) , ORE, AND COLLECTING
There are two types of resources that you can collect to make money: Ore and Gemstones.
Ore is found in many places; Gemstones are much rarer. Gemstones are a more valuable,
so it is always in your favor to collect as many Gemstones as you can.
In the upper right of the screen, the Credit Counter keeps track of the money you have to
build structures and units. This decreases as you build or repair units and structures, and
increases if you sell a building, deposit ore from an Ore Truck into the Refinery, or find a
crate that contains money.
In order to make money, you need to collect Ore. To collect Ore, you need to build an Ore
Refineries or Trucks. Every Refinery that you build comes with a Truck, and you can build
extra if you want to collect ore faster. Once construction of the Refinery is complete, place
the Refinery where you want it to go. The closer the Refinery is to ore, the faster the turn-
around on collection will be.
When the Refinery is built, an Ore Truck will appear with it. The Ore Truck will move to the
nearest patch of Ore visible on your battle field and begin collecting it. The Ore Truck will try
to remember where it was collecting from and after dumping all of the collected Ore into the
Refinery it will return to the ore patch and continue to collect from it. This process is automatic,
but can be interrupted by you at any time by redirecting the Ore Truck to another location.
ORE GEMSTONES ORE ORE TRUCK
REFINERY
If there is no Ore in sight when you build your Refinery, the Ore Truck will appear outside
the Refinery and not move. Take one of your other units and scout around your base until
you find some Ore. Once you find some, select the Truck by left-clicking on it, and put your
cursor over the Ore. You will see the cursor change to an attack cursor. Since the Ore Truck
doesn’t have a weapon, this cursor tells it to start collecting. Left-click again, and the Ore
Truck will proceed to the Ore and begin to collect it. The automatic collection process will
be started, so you no longer need to order the Ore Truck back and forth.