Captains Guide

 This guide will explain everything you need to know about captains

What are captains?

There are 8 different captains. You can choose one captain to be the active one. The captain you chose will basically buff your ship in various ways, giving more base damage or fire rate, or increasing the amounts of ys and rc you get. Each captain has 5 Tiers of Talents with 3 Talents in each. 

How to buy captains:

To buy a captain go into the captain menu and click a captain you want to hire then click "hire" on the middle left. Every captain cost 10k money first, it will increase by x10 each time you buy a new captain.

Upgrading captain

Rank

Rank is very simple way to upgrade your captain. For each rank of the captain you use, you get +1 base damage.

The Rank of the captain you can see on the left side. Click promote to increase the rank. Promoting cost yellow squares (ys)

Talents

All 8 captains have 15 unique talents each. They are in sorted 5 Tiers (does not mean it becomes better in each tier) with 3 Talents each. To unlock a new Tier you need to get experience from the captain (that's explained later). Then you need to pay 5 ys for each Talent you want to unlock. 

There are 2 types of Talents normal and global talents.
Global Talents will give their bonus no matter if you have the captain as active. (They have orange corners)

Normal Talents will only work if the captain is the active(chosen) one.

In each Tier you can select 1 Normal Talent. For each Global talent, you can activate and disable it. 

Experience

You need experience for each captain to unlock their Talents(Tiers). For Tier 1 you need 10k xp. For Tier 2 100k, Tier 3 300k, Tier 4 1mil, Tier 5 100mil. 

You get experience for every block that you destroy. The xp depends on the Mission/Tier/Wave the block is in. a Block will give maximum the captain rank as xp for the captain. So no matter the level you play, if your captain is at rank 5 you can maximum get 5 experience per Block. 

If you want to know how to get xp efficiently look in here

At 1 billion xp you will unlock a new bonus that will zoom out of the map when you fly a level so you can see a bit further and also start very slightly further back. If you have all capatins at billion xp you get a medal. Also for each captain you will unlock an easter egg

OLD CAPTAIN SYSTEM PRE 3.0 Outdated!!

1. The first ability will take the number of abilities and special abilities that you have (Across all captains) and divide them by the number and round them down

For example, if you have 69 abilities and your first ability is at level 3 it will divide your abilities (69) by 30, and round it down and you gain an extra 2 base damage. if all abilities are maxed you can get up to 16 extra base damage.

2. The second ability will give you extra money depending on how fast you beat blocks, however, there is a limit and it is signified in the numbers. Also, the greed will show on the bottom left in purple when you are in a mission or tiers or waves.

this ability is good for farming money so you can buy it to 2 or 3, buying more is not that good in the early game since you can't even destroy the blocks fast enough

3. The third one you can get a Yellow Square if you cleared a tier for the chance the ability says depending on how often you upgraded it. 

This shouldn't be bought except for maxing all captains for the first ability.

4. For the fourth ability, it is different for each captain. I like to call it the "Special ability"

Special abilities:

Mercury is a good captain for early missions, especially for the ones where you need to fly well and for the ones where there is 1 strong block in the way e.g: mission 58.

you can give him a few ranks and 2 or 3 upgrades on his special ability but more is a waste since you will mainly use other captains.

Venus has a discount on her rank but this will only give 19% more ranks with the same amount of ys and isn't worth it with that.

Earth increases all of his own abilities but not enough to be worth it.

It can give you some extra money but I don't recommend spending your ys

When you have mars equipped the items in the shop will cost fewer that's why you should always use him to get items, I very much recommend using him when items cost max money as with Uranus you will need to grind from scratch while if you use mars to buy you can start from 2e which is far better.

For Jupiter, the special ability is the best for pushing tiers and makes her the best captain in the game.

She will give you 2x max and 0.66x minimum speed. So you have more time to shoot, that's why it can go up to 0.66x damage and with that, she is the best captain and you should only rank Jupiter higher. 

For Saturn. I feel like this is the most overrated by new players or maybe it's venus that's overrated, anyway this is only good for clearing and it would only be useful if you can demolish the blocks easily. You surely can use him then in earlier tiers, but I just don't recommend ranking Saturn up

For Uranus, Use Uranus for money up to tier 3000's. if you upgrade his special ability and finish/clear something (i reccomend 29), you can make infinite money. why 29? it is the fastest stage you can beat right now. And the reason his special ability is so good is that it can multiply your money by 1.011

with it, you can double your money every minute if you have a good build that can beat 29 (specifically destroy the block) in less than a second and it is exponential so after 10 minutes you can multiply your money by over 1000.

Note:this does not show in the finish screen

For Neptune just use him for farming ys as his special ability has a 25% chance to double the ys gained from the run (if maxed out) resulting in an average of 25% more ys.

(Made by Skill_Issue)