Hello, this guide should help both new and experienced players of Steemnova. In this part I will discuss the basic techniques and strategies that are important in the initial phase of the game. 

First steps

At begging you have 500 metal 500 crystal and 0 Deuterium. Not much, but enough for start. You should check main view (overview).

You can see there amount of Your resources, power and dark matter. Your main goal is to build a Small Cargo to gather resources from abandoned planets. You should spend Your dark matter in Officers page for 1 level of Geologist – he increase your mines income by 5% per level in whole empire.

Go to Buildings page and follow this scheme:

1. Solar Power plant (Level 1) 
2. Metal mine (Level 1)
3. Metal mine (Level 2) 
4. Solar Power plant (Level 2) 
5. Metal mine (Level 3) 
6. Metal mine (Level 4) 
7. Solar Power plant (Level 3) 
8. Metal mine (Level 5) 
9. Crystal mine (Level 1) 
10. Crystal mine (Level 2) 
11. Crystal Mine (Level 3) 
12. Solar Power plant (Level 4) 
13. Crystal Mine (Level 4) 
14. Solar Power plant (Level 5) 
15. Metal mine (Level 6) 
16. Solar Power plant (Level 6) 
17. Crystal Mine (Level 5) 
18. Crystal Mine (Level 6) 
19. Deuterium Refinery (Level 1) 
20. Solar Power plant (Level 7) 
21. Deuterium Refinery (Level 2) 
22. Deuterium Refinery (Level 3) 
23. Solar Power plant (Level 8) 
24. Deuterium Refinery (Level 4) 
25. Deuterium Refinery (Level 5) 
26. Deuterium Refinery (Level 6) 
27. Solar Power plant (Level 9) 
28. Robot Factory (Level 1) 
29. Robot Factory (Level 2) 
30. Research Lab (Level 1) 
31. Energy Technology (Level 1) 
32. Combustion Engine (Level 1)
33. Combustion Engine (Level 2) 
34. Shipyard (Level 1) 
35. Shipyard (Level 2) 

Now go to Hangar page 

Small Cargo!

Now you are able to raid abandoned planets. Go to galaxy page.

You see there Your own planet. Every new player starts in new system. There is 9 galaxy and 499 systems in each galaxy. You can search other systems by using arrows or type coordinates you want to see.

Now you should find players with “(i)”. Those players are inactive so you can send cargo to their planet and gather resources without any fight. You should do it as often as possible to speed up Your development.

Remember: every refresh of galaxy view cost 10 Deuterium, so note the coordinates of the farms. You can also check forum for Weekly Farm Scan. Best way is sending your ship by using fleet page.

Select ships and click continue.

Type coordinates of planet in order: Galaxy, System, Planet and click continue.

Click attack, do not take any resources and click continue.

Great! You just made your first raid, now wait for of your ship back, and then send it again, and again, and again…

This is the end of this part. 

More guides coming soon in order:

• Resources and Dark matter 
• Structures and Research
•  Fleet and Defense 
• Farming and Noob protection 
• Fleet save 
• Spying 
• Colonization and Expeditions 
• Recyclers and Moon   

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