In this guide i will try to explain some of the new features of the 4.0 version. How to use them and how to understand them.

The first thing you might notice to 4.0, is the menu list on the left.

The merchant menu has 4 other sub-menus and there's a new menu called "Shop".

This new menus and add-ons will speed up the pace of the game and make you addicted to gambling if you're not careful!

The new merchant is more like OGame's shopping mall. A shopping mall that has all the goodies in the universe

It contains 4 menus, from which 3 of them are new features.

The new menus are

The resource market is basically the old merchant, the one that for 3,500 Dark Matter [or if you were lucky from expeditions, for free] will offer you the possibility to exchange one resource type in any of the other two [the limit of how much you can exchange is set on storage capacity of the resources you will exchange it in!]

The rates offered by the merchant vary between 3:2:1 and 2:1:1.
If you're not satisfied by the exchange rates, you can always get a new exchange rate, but this will cost you another 3,500 Dark Matter!

The last merchant you have called will remain active until you have used it's services or changed him, to access a previously called merchant, press this button:

1. Object you can bid for.

2. Approximate time left until auction ends/Exact time until the next auction will begin.

3. Biggest bid up to that moment.

4. How many people have bidden up to that moment.

5. Name of the highest bidder.

A. Select what planet/moon you want to use resources from to bid, or use honor points.

B. You can use any of the resources you have, the rates will always be 1 Metal to 1.5 Crystal to 3 Deuterium. 1 Honor Point is the equivalent of 100 units of Metal.

In this boxes you will put the value you want to bid [The "all" button will automatically insert the necessary resources you need for wining the auction [match the current highest bid + 1000 metal].

C. Here you can see how much you have overbid the highest bidder, the exact amount you are bidding, the minimum amount you can bid and how much you resources you still need to bid.

D. Is an archive of previous auctions, here you can estimate the value of certain objects during certain times of the day and it's sheer value.

The auction is probably the most important feature for players that has been introduced in 4.0.

The Scrap Merchant will buy your ships and defense for a percentage of it's initial costs.

If you want to get rid of some ships or defensive units, you won't have to crash them into someone else's planet anymore, the scrap merchant will offer you 35% of their value, including Deuterium!

You can sell as many ships as your storage space will allow you to cash in the resources.

The Bargain button will increase the percentage of resources you get from selling your ships and defence.

A bargain will increase the percentage with 5 up to a maximum of 14% every time to a cap of 75% of the ship's cost.

The first bargains costs 2,000 Dark Matter, each bargain after will have it's costs increased with 2,000 Dark Matter up to 10,000 Dark Matter per bargain.

Import / Export is easy to understand.

Daily, you have the chance to buy a surprise package.

This package will contain a premium object [resource booster, kraken, newtron or detroid] which content you will find out only after buying it.

The object can be bought similar to an auction, exchange rates being 1 - 1.5 3 and honor points being equivalate to 100 metal.

You can chose to take the object or to try and exchange it with another random object, but this will cost you 500 Dark Matter for a Bronze Item, 1,500 Dark matter for a Silver Item and 4,500 Dark Matter for a Gold Item.
You can only do this change twice.

The resource boosters work for all 3 types of resources.

It can be activated on one planet and lasts for 7 days [ one day for boosters bought with buddy points].

These will enhance production on the planet you chose to activate it on.
Depending on the type of booster you activate, it will increase production by:

This three new items are interesting folks that will speed up construction times and research times by an exact amount.

Each one speeds a certain type of unit:

NEWTRON - Speeds up the building time of a research you are conducting.

KRAKEN - Speeds up the building time of any mine or facility you are constructing on a certain planet.

DEDROID - Reduces queue time of fleet and defensive units and ships you are building on a certain planet.

Similar to boosters, they have 3 levels, golden, silver and bronze, these will reduce construction times by:

If you have no luck bidding at the auction house or import/export, you can always stop at the Shop and buy resource boosters.

You can buy them with Dark Matter (duration 1 week) or with Buddy points (Duration 1 day).

When you buy the resource booster, you have two options:

1. You buy it and put it in the inventory for later use.

2. You buy it and instantly activate it on the planet you bought it from.

If you decide to store it, you will find it in "Inventory", under the Shop menu or in your Overview from where you can activate it by a double click or by drag and drop.