1. Introduction

• The Interplanetary Jump Gate is a service available from the Market to the players.

• The Jump Gate haves the objective of:

• Quick dislocation of units between regions of different planets;

• Reduction of movement costs of high fleets.

• To use the Jump Portal the Market requires that the player possesses the Jump Gate Technology.

2. Costs

• Cost is not affected by distance between Planets.

• Jump Portal costs is divided in two major areas:

• Opening of the Jump Portal (Independent fixed value apart from the spaceship numbers);

• Cost per spaceship.

2.1 Opening of the Jump Portal

• It's opening have a fixed cost equivalent to 150 Nanites in credits, according to the ratio of the respective Market.

• The first 9 levels of the Jump Gate Technology have a discount on its opening:

• Level 1 - 90%;

• Level 2 - 80%;

• ...

• Level 9 - 10%.

2.2 Cost per ship

• Cost is presented in Credits and is fixed to all Markets.

• Cost per ship depends of:

• Size of spaceship to transport (small, medium, big or Titan);

• Number of spaceships of that size that will be transported;

• Quantas mais naves forem deslocadas mais baixo é o custo por nave.

• Jump Gate Technology gives 2% discount per level;

• Hyperspace Technology gives 3% discount per level.

• There is a maximum limit of 50% in all discount values.

• With the civilizations, there is yet another discount applied on the resulting value.

• You can find the value of that discount ingame on Panel -> Civilizations.

3. Limitations

• After the using of the Portal, Market makes it unavailable for a limited period of time.

• The initial waiting time between utilizations is 24h.

• The evolution of Jump Gate Technology reduce in 20% the time of the previous level.

• There is also a limitation relative to the size of ships to transport, depending on the Jump Gate Technology as follows:

• Level 1: Allow transport of small size ships;

• Level 4: Begins to allow also medium size ships;

• Level 7: Begins to allow also big size ships;

• Level 10: Begins to allow also titan ships;

4. Time of Travel

• The time of travel is calculated as follows:

• 1. Take-off of the ships (depends on type of motor of the ships)

• 2. Travel to the Market (depends of type of ship and Motor Technology used by ship)

• 3. Travel from the Market to region

• The two first steps have a minimum time limit of1h.

5. Sending of Ships

• The player access to Service by Section Market -> Services.

• After configuring the ships that want to send is presented the value in Credits to pay.

• This way the player can pay with any kind of resource.

• The Ratio presented are refreshed at 00h each day.

• During refresh, messages of negative Credits can appear to the players that are using the Portal at time, being necessary to configure again the data.

• At this stage Portal doesn't allow movement of resources between colonies except for the ones used as payment to the Market.

• The Profit of the Market in the using of Portal is of 30%.

• Beside the value in Credits is presented also the consumption that ships will have to make until the origin Portal and from the destination Portal to the region.

• The value of consumption haves to be payed in Hydrogen.

• The chosen ships have to have the capacity of transport the payment resources plus the consumption fuel.

• After the sending order this mission cannot be returned without completing the objective.