🔬 The laboratory: research, rarities and colours
Everything that changes how your rocket and your base look is found in the laboratory, a building of the base. There are 17 colours for the rocket and 7 ecosystems for the land, and you start with one ecosystem, and pick your first colour when you finish your first part.
How a research works
- You choose what to look for (colours or ecosystems) and a rarity. You do not choose the exact thing.
- You pay, and a free worker goes to the laboratory until it ends. The one with the lowest level goes, so the best stay free for your works.
- When it ends, you open the result: something of that rarity that you did not have. It never repeats, so the collection can always be completed.
Rarities: the rarer, the longer and the dearer
| Rarity | Time | Coins | Laboratory level | Colours | Ecosystems |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Common | 1 h | 50 | 1 | 8 | 1 |
| Uncommon | 3 h | 100 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| Rare | 8 h | 200 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Epic | 24 h | 400 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Legendary | 48 h | 800 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
- Each level of the laboratory opens one more rarity, up to level 5.
- Only one research at a time, and it cannot be cancelled.
- Neither the level of the worker nor the control center shorten it: a research takes what it takes, from 1 h to 48 h.
- The laboratory does not research while it is being upgraded.
Colours
A colour you have found can go on any zone of the rocket, and each zone can wear a different one: the body of each part, the nozzles, the stripes, the portholes, the star and the tip. Changing colours is free and you can do it as often as you like, from the card of each part.
The common ones are the plain colours; the uncommon, pastels and bright ones; the rare are metallic. Above them there are 3 more, epic and legendary, that the game keeps secret: in the collection they are a “?” until you find them.
The collection
The Collection tab shows everything there is and what you have of it, by category and rarity. What you are missing shows with a padlock, and you can try the common, uncommon and rare colours on your rocket before you have them. Visitors see your rocket painted the way you leave it.
💡 Looks are only looks: no colour or ecosystem changes coins, times or levels. Research when you have coins to spare and a worker with nothing to do.
Flags are free
The 44 country flags are not researched: every player can pick one from the start, where the rocket is named. It flies on the pole of the base and goes on the side of the rocket.