Upgrade
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AstroEmpires is not a free game. It is possible to play the game and enjoy it for free but there are a lot of features which are only available to those who upgrade their accounts. This is how the game admin can afford to keep them game running and add new features and servers.
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[edit] How to upgrade
You can upgrade your account only one way officially. This is via Paypal's online payment system. In Europe the admins do accept direct cash payments via post, similarly in the United States Jaimehlers offers a similar system where you send him the money and he upgrades your account via Paypal. Jaimehlers system has been endorsed by the game admins.
To upgrade your account you need to click on 'Account' and then 'Upgrade' ingame. The cost of upgrading is in Euro's.
1 month - €3.99
3 month - €9.99
6 month - €14.99
12 month - €19.99
[Convert Euros to your currency [1]]
[edit] What do I get?
There are a wide verity of features and advantages you only get via an upgraded account. Here we take a look through them,
[edit] Advanced structures
Upgrading makes it so you can build Advanced Structures past level 5. Each advanced structure has its own advantages but most obvious will be the ability to build as many levels of Terraform and Multi-Level Platforms as you want. This will greatly improve the amount of structures you can build on your bases and offer a huge knock on affect with your Construction, Production and Economy
For a full listing of which structures are advanced, view the Advanced structures page
[edit] Empire Advanced View
There are four pages on the Empire menu which are only available for upgraded accounts. These are very useful menus, particularly in wartime. These pages are,
- Scanners
- Base Capacities
- Structures
- Fleets
[edit] Queues
When your account is upgraded you have the ability to Queue five items above what you are currently building. On free accounts you can only queue two. This is the same for Production, Construction and Research items.
[edit] Inbox/Board view message increase
Sometimes its a pain to read through the mail you got and the new board messages, all those next page clicks can be tiresome. Upgrading makes it so instead of 10 messages displayed per page, 20 are. This halves the amount of clicks you have to make and halves your annoyance.
[edit] Other advantages
There are still a whole collection of other advantages to upgraded accounts,
- Vacation Mode allows you to not be attacked for up to 35 days in the year.
- No Advertising removes all adverts from the game, which means less clutter and faster loading.
- Maximum number of bases is raised from 9 for free accounts to unlimited for paying.
- Personal Avatar, you can upload a personal avatar for your account.
- Account Deletion. Free accounts are deleted after 14 days without login. Upgraded remain until after the upgrade runs out and they become free.
- Location Bookmarks are limited to 15 for free players, 30 for upgraded.
[edit] Free upgrades?
When you start in AstroEmpires your first 7 days will be upgraded automatically. Once you step into your eighth day your upgrade will end and so will the perks.
As well as this free upgrade it is possible for other players to upgrade your account. This has caused some Guilds to offer free upgrades to loyal or exceptional members. The odd time the admins will also run competitions for free upgrades. Examples would be the Astro Empires advertisement banner competition or the Drekon frigate anniversary competition where Drekon frigate's were hidden across the game servers and those who destroyed them got free upgrades.
[edit] Free VS Upgraded Table
| Ingame Bonuses | Free | Upgraded |
| Advanced Structure Level Limit | 5 | No Limit |
| Base Limit | 9 | No Limit |
| Queue Limit | 2 | 5 |
| Messages per Page Limit | 10 | 20 |
| Location Bookmarks limit | 15 | 30 |
| Vacation Mode Time | 0 days | 35 days |
| Advertising? | Yes | No |
| Personal Avatar? | No | Yes |
| Empire Advanced View? | No | Yes |
