6. The Resources

There are four basic resources you will use to build, enhance and optimize your Mech Squad:

Ferrite

Bioptics

Crystal

Niodes

6.1. Ferrite:

The Ferrite is a highly advanced metal, made with pure iron in opposition to the old alloys, and enriched with iron nanocrystals which provides to the metal an incomparable strength. Was first discovered in the ancient Earth in AD 1988 and could be only made in a very small production. Centuries later, the Illyrians were able to produce it by tons.

Extraordinary expensive to manufacture, once cast cannot be easily reshaped like ordinary alloys, requiring instead the aid of the right equipment.

The Ferrite strength is essential for the structure of the mechs.

Acquiring Ferrite:

It is so easy to acquire ferrite, as you will be allowed to scratch many of the enemy mechs for both: Ferrite and Bioptics, through individual fights versus enemy squads or with the missions.

 

 6.2. Bioptics:

Bioptics are highly adaptable neural and biosynthetic network technologies using optical computing rather than silicon.

Advanced labs grow bioptics, also called neuroptics, in tangled masses like cotton candy. When mushed together, the neural nets automatically link up to create multi-purpose algorithmic technology. These lumps can be programed to function as processing power, data storage or communication cables.

Essentials to allow the link between the Pilots and the organic computers of their mechs through the helmet rigs.

Acquiring Bioptics:

As the ferrite, to acquire bioptics won’t be a trouble as long as you keep a frecuent activity defeating enemy mechs or making missions.

6.3. Crystal:

 

Rare resource, required to construct and upgrade all the common mechs, weapons and equipment that don't require Niodes.

Acquiring Crystal:

Harvesting your Farm

You can harvest them in the Crystal Farm. (If you have friends, let them harvest your own farm, as everyone will get more profit, read below)

Harvesting your Friends' Farms

You can harvest the famrs of your allies (friends) and then, getting more profit as you don't only allow them to get their crystals, you get also some amount and they can send you a share production without lose of their own crystal reserve (all win)

Battle Circuits Fights.

Entering a Circuit pays you 10 Crystal and 2 Niodes immediately on entry.

And an increasing amount on every victory, getting the double crystals than the energy required on every new fight.

Scratching Common Mechs, Weapons and Equipment.

Selling those not elite gears, you will get in return some ferite, bioptics and crystal back.

6.4. Niodes:

Made with Niobium, a so rare and valious metal, to create the most wanted technology. They looks like stainless spheres of the size of a fist.

Niodes are the enabling technology of Mecha-nized warfare. originally created by the Forerunners, they are essential to the intergalactic gate-jumping, for Mech construction and energy storage.

Most important even: Niodes are used as means of exchange recognized by every Mech-enabled world in the whole galaxy, making them specially stable and valuable.

The best quality mechs, weapons and equipment, will requier Niodes... Many Niodes.

 

Acquiring Niodes:

Opposite as Ferrite or Bioptics, the Niodes are a rare resource, and there are some small ways to get them:

Watching Videos (Hot system): Each video from the Galactic Channel you patiently view, will reward you one beam that you can scratch for one niode. (USA users can accede to the videos, remnant countries have that option disabled and shall sort.)

Note that once you saw a video, you will probably try to watch a new one, through the purple button "Watch another"... Avoid that button as is broken and always will say that there are no more videos available: WRONG! There are and you must return to the home page and enter again in the videos page to repeat the process. This way you can watch several videos in the ranks of 50 to 100 daily if you have patience and time enough to spare.                                                                   

Leveling: You get 5 Niodes awarded by each level you raise.

Rare drop at missions: There are rare times when a mission can offer to you the treasure of some miodes.

Scratching niode technology mechs, weapons and equipment. If you happen to get any of those in raids or fighting a mission boss, and you don’t want them as got underated by your stronger squad and gears, you have the option to retrofeed those components, salving a small amount of niodes to use in your own purposes.

 

Niode lottery

To promote pilot development, the Galactic Senate runs a lottery for niodes.

Each pilot can enter once per lottery session for the low cost of 10 ferrite. Every 12 hours, a name will be drawn and allowed to claim 100 niodes for a full day to claim the prize after he won the lottery.

If the winner is member of a clan, every clan member can also claim 20 niodes once the winner took his prize and while there still time for the 24 hours.

Unclaimed prizes are recovered by the Lottery Commission.

Battle Circuits Fights.

Entering a Circuit pays you 10 Crystal and 2 Niodes immediately on entry.

Niode Raffle:

After the Clan Wars, there is organized a Niode purchase. The buyers can accede to a raffle where thousands of Niodes can be won by a lucky pilot who purchased niodes.

The good new is that the simple purchase of 9 Niodes for 1 $ (sometimes the amount is even higher with some offer) will grant a return for 50 niodes once the raffle was done. (This is, 59 Niodes by 1 $.)