May the power be with you
May the power be with you
Reference – zer0 k38, the first place winner of The ZDAY game guide contest
Abbreviations in the game
hq – headquarters rss – resources
What do I need to know first of all?
There are four types of resources:
– Food (from start)
– Oil (from start)
– Iron (from hq10)
– Alloy (from hq15)
You need those rss to get stronger and grow. You need it for your building upgrades, to train new troops, to donate to your alliance and research – as you see for everything. There are different ways to get those rss.
The most common way of getting rss is to send your troops to a farm – depending which type of troops you send and how much you send you gather more or less rss. The best farming troops are batteries as those have the highest troop load – even with the lowest level.
Other ways are rss items – you get those through the shop for example. These are very important for the later gameplay. Everytime you upgrade a building it gets more expensive. So the more you go into the lategame the need of rss is getting bigger and bigger. Here you will face the problem of attacks, upkeeping your troops and the real costs of growing. If you would just farm you could never upgrade as the upkeep of your troops (your troops eat all your food higher than your warehouse capacity) will always be faster than your farming.
For the earlygame it’s recommended to buy the leadership outfit if you want to spend money in the game, it really helps as you won’t need any rss for a long time.
It’s very important to get to hq16 as fast as possible, because there you unlock the tesla tower, where you can gather crystals and easily get rss and VIP points (more to VIP later).
You should not upgrade every building and the start upgrading your hq as this takes way too long. Try to get as many rss as you can and upgrade your hq as fast as possible – you can also use the upgrade information on zdaygame.info to know what requirements you have for the next level, so you can already prepare for the next upgrade.
Alliances
You should join any alliance in the early game – those help to not get attacked in the beginning beside your beginner shield, also you get help upgrading your buildings faster. Once you found a
„final“ alliance you should donate daily and as often as you can, but never pass the 3.59h mark as you will be blocked from donating in those 4 hours. If you won’t pass it you can donate like after 2 hours again when you are back online – so it’s a matter of your activity. In the lategame an alliance is a neccessary help – from time helps to rss help and bonuses. A very important part are the shops of an alliance, there is the „normal“ shop and the defense department shop. In each you can get different items, the most important are speedups, manufacturing rss, growth items and in the lategame teleport items. But you will learn this by playing the game by yourself.
VIP
You have a VIP level – everytime you reach a level up you get a day vip for free. The VIP level you should reach is 8 as you get an additional march slot and many other advantages. From there on you need to buy VIP time with gold as leveling up will be hard and isn’t even really neccessary. The best way to level up your vip is getting to hq16 and use the crystals you can farm in the tesla tower. Other ways like buying vip points in the store for gold or alliance store are also possible but way more expensive. It depends on you how much time and money you want to invest to get things.
Supersoldier
This is a very easy part of the game. You can grow your own supersoldier, with leveling up, manufacturing gear and battling other supersoldiers. Here I can give you the hint to use research to get atleast some boost in defense, attack and storage capacity. Also you need to get some stamina jolts until your supersoldier reaches a high level for more stamina. Do not upgrade the low level gear, the first gear you will upgrade is the purple heetseaker gear beginning with the belt and the hat. Also power parts are very important. You should try to get first of all every power part for you purple gear and then upgrade those to level 2 all and then beginning to go to level 3. Most important are health and defense – after that you can go by attack and firepower. Always have VIP activated when you enter the facility as it gives you a good advantage.
Troop training
Here you try to train the highest possible troops always – do not waste too much in Tier 1 and Tier 2 troops as it will take you too much time to upgrade them but also you will get to Tier 3 really fast. Do not train batteries with troop load lower than 16 as it is just a waste – you can’t use them for attacking except you attack other bases as they don’t do any damage to invaders or troops, they are only good for farming and destroying traps. But you should always have 2 different tiers of troops trained – like t3 and t4 because they have different bonuses (for example one more damage against vehicles and the other one against distance troops).
Gear
This is one of the most important parts in the game. It’s very hard to get good gear and you need to have a lot of gold for it, so keep the daily packages in your eye where you get 3000 gold for a low amount of money. You need to buy crates in the item store, they are called „crates“. You start from level 3 grates for basic gear if you have enough gold, if not keep your gold for level 4 and 5 as those are needed in late game. You will need many manufacturing rss also – so use your ration coupons to get steel as it is not that easy to buy it anywhere for cheap.
A big part of gear are medals. The most important medals you get in the defense store of your alliance – the raw honor medal. It gives you 20% attack or defense or health for all your vehicles, distance troops and infantry. Those are the easiest high level medals you can get and give you a huge boost in power.
Skilling of your commander and supersoldier
The commander skilling is possible in different ways. For the early game I recommend to skill on the growth skills like construction speed, research speed and so on – when you are going in the midgame you should reskill and go for war skilling.
The supersoldier skilling is a kind of taste. I recommend to get through the skill tree till you have the first usable skill. Do not skill for stamina jolts and storage bags (I don’t mean storage capacity). You can skill for defense, capacity, attack, health and if you want for medicine, but I would recommend to switch to the next skill tree and do the same once you reach the first usable skill.
Destroyer
The destroyer gives you a very nice boost in power and stats. You should focus on getting more march capacity and the xxx damage against yyy skills, also the damage against threats. At last the farming skills for iron and alloy – maybe in early game also for oil and food, but you should reset them once you are high level. Also first of all you should use your engine parts you get from the facility, the defense store and some other ways to upgrade your march capacity – the more march capacity the higher your troop power and so are your attacks against players and threats.