Edgeworld Strategy guide

There are a bunch of ways to find players.

The Scout & Attack Bases screen (the little warp gate in the middle of your command panel). The Players PvP tab lists all players in your current sector. The Feuds PvP tab lists players you’ve attacked or that have attacked you. Factions PvE are computer players.

Global, alliance and group chats are another way to find players. You can click on players names to message and scout them or invite them to a group (more on that later). It is not possible to send resources to players via this menu. For that, see the Alliance method of finding players.

The Alliance screen allows you to list players in your alliance and the leaders of other alliances. In the My Alliance tab, you can click on a users name to send them messages, scout them and send them resources. This tab also lists which enemies last attacked people in your alliance, giving you an easy way to retaliate against player for the glory of your alliance.

GPS allows you to find a player by playername. They can be bought using platinum, or won in Zoot’s Loot. They can be used only ONCE per GPS.

Battle Reports received in the email from either offense or defense can be used to scout enemy bases.

Once a day (??is this true? I think I may have gotten it twice a day, once in the afternoon, one just after midnight, then one in the afternoon again), you will get chance to play Zoot’s Loot. Zoot offers random prizes that can include anything in the shop (??true??). Chances of getting lesser prices are higher naturally.

You will not get your prize immediately. The item you’ve won gets added to the store. You first have to find the item in the store and click the Use button before it takes effect.

Before you decide to attack, analyse the base and try to find any weak spots. Check the Defense chapter for spotting weak-spots in a base. Make sure you have a plan of action and know what kind of troops you want to send. In case you’re not sure whether you’ve got enough troops for your plans, check before attacking. If you find that you don’t have those four rhinos needed to carry out your plan, you must retreat and lose one or more warps.

Depending on your goals, watch out for either weak spots in an enemy’s base and / or exposed and lightly-protected resources. Weak spots can be scattered or lone defenses that may open up holes to the base’s core or defenses of the same type in the same spot. Select troops and warp-in points accordingly.

You must then select troops to send by clicking on their icons. You can remove troops from the selection by clicking the small red minus icon on the troop icon. Which troops to select depends on the availability of your troops, the enemy base and where you want to attack it.

The following troops are available:

After having selected your troops, you must pick the spot to warp in. This is done by moving the cursor around the battlefield and clicking it in a strategic point that is allowed. If you are not allowed to warp in at a particular spot, the cursor will be red; otherwise green.

A warp gate has a limit on how much troops you can warp in per attack. This limit is determined by the level of your warp gate, and the space used up by a unit. A Marine, for instances, uses up one space, while a Titan uses 4. That means if your warp gate has 20 spaces, you can only send four titant and four marines. It is therefor important to level up your warpgate for more powerful attacks.

When your Command Center reaches level 11, you can build a second warp-gate.

You can warp in way beyond the borders of a base. This allows certain fast troops such as rhinos to sprint ahead and take the brunt of the attack before your other troops come into range of the enemy’s defenses or to give you time to prepare for the next warp-in. Once defenses are locked on to a target, they will continue to fire until the target is dead, making rhinos and titans good cannon fodder to distract enemy defenses while you warp in more units with high damage to kill the defenses off.

It is often best to warp in as closely to defensive structures as possible, giving troops with short range but heavy firepower (such as pyros) a quick way to dispatch enemy defenses. If they have to run across the entire battlefield before reaching their intended targets they can easily be wiped out by turrets and X-1 canon’s splash damage. Hover with the mouse cursor over enemy defensive buildings to see their range and pick a good spot.

Of vital importance is that it is not necessary to warp in all troops at the same time during an attack. You can warp troops in as many times as you want, as long as the warp space hasn’t been used up. That means you can warp Rhinos in close to defenses in order to distract them while you warp in other troops in different locations to take out resources or strategic targets. Make sure you have a coherent battle plan in mind so you don’t have to think about what to do as your first wave of troops gets slaughtered.

Sometimes, however, an enemy base (both real players and Factions controlled by the computer) has exposed mines and supply depots that can be attacked with long-range troops (Specters). In that case you may want to warp in out-of-range of the defense and let your long-range troops take out the buildings.

If all your warps are charged, you get three warps. There is no way currently to increase this number, nor is there a way to build additional warp gates (even though Factions can be seen to have more than one). Attacking a Faction always costs one warp per attack. Attacking a real player takes one warp if they are offline, and two if they are currently online. That means the first attack you try on an enemy must succeed if they are online, since you cannot attack immediately again.

If a battle takes more than 5 minutes, you will automatically retreat.

Once your troops are warped in, they will move towards the building closest to them and start attacking it. If troops come under attack by defenses, that defensive building will become their next target, but not before they destroy their current target. It is therefor important to warp in in the right spot, lest your troops start shooting a useless building with lots of health, while they’re being shot at from all sides.

Enemy defenses work in much the same way. They target the first offensive unit to enter their range, and continue firing at it until it is dead. As mentioned earlier, this can be used to distract defenses using, for instance, rhinos.

There is no shame in a tactical retreat if things do not go according to plan, or if your goals have been met. Sometimes troops do not move and attack the way you intended too, and it might be better to cut your loses by retreating than to continue a pointless attack. Always carefully weigh the potential gains against the losses and if necessary, hit that retreat button.

Many valuable resources can be gotten by carefully analysing a base’s layout and attack badly defended supply depots and resource mines. Get in quick with long-range troops (Specters, for instance), take out the supply depots/mines, and retreat. Go in hard with high-damage, short-range troops such as pyros, take out some defensive buildings, plunder the mines and retreat. These are some of the methods of high return-on-investment attacks. It is not always about flattening the enemies base. Check Appendix I for a list of easy to exploit vulnerabilities in computer-controlled factions.

Sometimes an enemy’s base is well enough protected that you cannot get through their defenses and plunder resources in one go. After an initial attack it is possible to Scout again directly and lay down a second attack. This can be used to first destroy defenses in strategic places and then sending in a second wave to loot resources or destroy the rest of the base. Varying your troops between assaults may be a good idea.

After attacking an enemy, they remain open to attack for a small while (??30 seconds or something??). After that, if sufficient damage has been done to their base, they will receive protection and cannot be attacked again in that timeframe. (??Need more info on this. How long does protection last? Always 30 min or until repairs are done? Damage to base required for protection???).

Both players will receive a battle report on how they did. See 'Getting Attacked' for the strategic value of this battle report.

Having good defensive buildings is key to staying on top of the game. Bad defenses make you an attractive target, and you will lose resources precious to getting ahead in the game. Worse, the enemy gains them over your back.

Here’s a list of the various defensive buildings and their usefulness:

Generic tips:

Check Section 6.2 (Appendix II) for a list of all the building upgrades.

Make sure you build all the defensive buildings you are allowed to build. How many that are depends on the level of your Command Center, so if you feel you don’t have enough defensive buildings, it’s time to upgrade your Command Center.

An important aspect is to level up your defenses. Leveling up your defensive buildings is cheap and fast, especially in the beginning. There are also various missions to be completed by upgrading defenses, providing that precious XP for leveling up.

In general you’ll want to keep your Gun Turrets and X-1 canons at the same level as your Command Center, until they are at least level 4. At lower levels (1 to 3), upgrading Tesla Towers and Concussion Turrets is less useful, since the benefits are minimal. Keep them somewhere between one and two levels lower than your Command Central, unless you can spare the resources and time to upgrade them.

The layout of your base is as important as having high-level defensive buildings. There is no one obviously correct way to lay out your base, but here are some tips:

When you are under attack from another player, you will be notified of the attack (if you are online at the moment). You cannot watch the actual battle as it progresses, but after the attack is over you will get a battle report in your mail. The battle report lists how you did in your defensive. You can hover over the blue information icons with your mouse to see which of your buildings were destroyed, what kind of troops the enemy sent and how much of them you destroyed. Use this information to your advantage by deducing weak spots in your base. If the enemy sent many Specters, and you lost a lot of resource mines or supply depots, it probably means you have a long-rage weak spot in your base. Try to find it and cover it with turrets. Much can be learned from the battle reports, so do not just ignore them.

UPDATE: The information below is no longer accurate. You are no longer attacked by the AI once a day.

About once a day you will get attacked by the AI. This is a random attack by a Faction, controlled by the computer. They are usually harmless and under-powered, and you get to delay the attack a bit so you can move some stuff around in your base in case you weren’t prepared. The AI always tries to attack the weakest spot of your base.

Before the AI attacks, you may want to delay the attack and collect the resources from your mines. This way, when your mines are destroyed, you do not lose the resources. (FIXME: Do you even lose resources from Faction attacks?)

After having been attacked, any damaged buildings are repaired automatically. You will not lose any buildings permanently, nor will they go down levels. The only thing you can lose in an attack are resources. During repair, upgrades and mining continues like normal.

There are three ways to get resources:

Some tips:

This is a list of zero-risk or minimal risk vulnerabilities in faction bases if you retreat in time. Use them to your advantage to loot resources or complete missions (destroying the Command Centers).

This appendix uses wind-directions to point out base weaknesses. The wind-directions and corresponding places in the enemy base can be seen in Figure III.

Notes:

The following vulnerabilities have been found and tested. If you have additional vulnerabilities, please let me know. See the Help and Contact sections on how to contact me.

Notes:

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v0.9 Updates. v0.8 Updated Lvl 50 Helio vulnerability. Removed lvl 250 Helio vulnerability. v0.7 Added vulnerability of lvl1000 Maar base * v0.6 Fixed misplacement of section header (Trade) * v0.5 Added vulnerability of lvl 50 Helio base Added vulnerability of lvl 250 Helio base Updated Appendix II (upgrade costs) Fixed battle duration before automatic retreat Fixed some FIXMEs Added some info about leveling up * v0.4 Fixed appendix II Added Battle Reports as a source of finding players Fixed automatic withdraw during battle after X minutes * v0.3 Clarified Zoot’s Loot section Improvements to the PvP/PvE Farming Improvements and new vulnerabilities to Appendix I Added Appendix II, Building Upgrades * v0.2 Added appendix I: Vulnerabilities in Faction bases Improvements and updates on the 'Offense - Warping' In section Added info on the ability to warp in multiple times in a single attack * v0.1 Initial document