Hello, Pilots!

I'd like to welcome @spryquasar to EXODE! I hope that you enjoy your time here.

There has been a bunch of significant updates this week, and @elindos has released 3 blog posts which I will link here with a short description of each. I will also give brief explanations in the News section, but I highly recommend that you go read the posts yourself, especially #2.

Post #1, describes planets, their features and seasons.

Post #2, describes starships, their modules, and how to repair them.

Post #3, describes how the gameplay phases work and what to expect from each of them.

📰News:

Faction Power has finally been released! My strongest faction is Rekatron, while my weakest (that has a significant amount of cards available in Alpha) is Scientific, so I'm glad @proto26 is the 🍉 [MELN] Scientist!

We have been given the exact specifications of how planets are generated, those being that they have 2-5 regions, each region has unique traits, regions have sectors with their own traits, regions can have special seasons, planets have 40-80 sectors.

Here is a table of each known planet type and their modifiers:

Seems like Terrestrial is the most balanced planet type right now. My Alpha Planet is Oceanic which is ironic since I brought a mining deck to it.

We've finally got some more information on Ship Modules and how to repair them, and just like everything in EXODE, it seems extremely complicated at first glance. This is the first major step towards a player economy, and I highly recommend you go read Post #2 in order to learn how this will work.

Here is an example of a ship module and what it needs to be repaired:

There have been miscellaneous bugfixes related to Faction Power and certain cards.

🎁Giveaway:

This week, you have a chance of winning:

1x Strategic FOODIE-MOODIE

This is one of- if not the - most important card in the Tom Settler contract. Despite being "only a common", the Strategic FOODIE-MOODIE will be invaluable at creating food for your colony. We have yet to know what "Happy Soda" does, but I assume it improves morale due to the name. Your colonists need food, and this card provides it, what else is there to say?

and

1x WHC Unit

This card is one of the most important in the entire game. Every crew needs Life Support, no matter what, and this provides this. It only has 25 days of life when un-upgraded, so you will need to find/create/bring extra Oxygen Crystals ASAP. Not to mention Water. This card is nigh-required in a deck, I had to bring multiple, and that was for my tiny crew. Imagine a Cruise Ship Captain Columbus.

🎉Previous Winner:

Congratulations @eyebroo, you have been sent Battle-Trained Socialite # 51b7218fb529ee5164d40f518ddf5cde

➡️How To Enter:

1. Upvote this post
2. Reblog this post
3. Comment some fun fact(s) about your planet and your goal for your colony on it!

The winner will be chosen by random on Monday, May 2nd.

As usual, I will be tipping comments with #hivepizza!

EXODE is a real-time strategy space colonization game here on the Hive Blockchain. If you still have not bought your starter pack and signed up, use this Referral Code(c956af8) and you'll also receive 2 free Alpha Booster Packs with 5 NFT cards each and a free Epic Alpha Character. For more information and links, check out the developer's page, @elindos and this post by @proto26.