Upgrading your Units in CryptoAssault

A guide to upgrading your units permanently and temporarily

Just a quick reminder to those who haven’t read the overview. CryptoAssault is an MMO war game on the blockchain. Players deploy military units onto a huge map with thousands of other players. You can battle other units, capture territory and mine resources to vie for daily Ethereum rewards.

Today I want to talk about how to upgrade your units. There are 2 ways to upgrade your units: Evolve and Enhance. Evolution is permanent while enhance provides powerful temporary buffs.

First, here’s a refresher on rarity. Rarity is a measure of how good your unit is out of the box. Higher rarity units will have better battle stats and a larger territory radius. They’ll also be able to “push” their territory into lower rarity units. Higher rarity units will not only be strong in battle, but they’ll collect more Ethereum rewards due to their larger and stronger territory control.

Evolving your Units

All units start out at 1-star. A 1-star unit can absorb two other 1-star units to upgrade to a 2-star unit. Only units of the same type can absorb each other. i.e. Tanks must absorb tanks, jets must absorb jets, etc. However, absorbing the exact same unit type will be better. More on this later. 4-stars is the max evolution. When evolving a unit, the following occurs:
-battle stats increase
-resource mining rate increase
-travel distance increase
-access to the next map ring
-new enhancement unlocks

Evolving a unit will increase its battle stats by 2.5x so a 4-star unit will be over 15x more powerful than a 1-star unit. The resulting unit will also keep the age of the oldest unit. Remember that older units can collect up to 4x more ETH in land earnings.

Accessing a New Area

The biggest reason to evolve is to give your unit access to the next ring in the world. The tiles in the center are worth 12x more than the outer ring when you collect your daily land earnings. Units will also want to be in the center of the map to have the best chance at catching the daily Ethereum-rich satellite. Each ring also gives you access to a new resource to enhance your units.

Selecting the Rights Units to Evolve

There is a lot of strategy in evolution. The ingredients matter! For the best results, players should try to absorb the exact same unit with the same rarity. i.e. Legendary Stormstriker jets should try to absorb other legendary Stormstriker jets. Absorbing units of the exact same type will give your resulting unit a boost in stats. However, absorbing commons into a legendary unit will drag down your result. The resulting unit’s stats are also influenced by the 3 original units. You should select units that have high desired stats. It’s up to you what you want to “breed” for.

Enhancements

Every unit has a set of enhancements that can increase a unit’s stats. The player spends a certain amount of resources to activate the enhancement. The enhancement then has a set of charges. These charges are spent every time the unit attacks or is destroyed. Once these charges run out, the enhancement must be repurchased with resources.

Players should be constantly mining resources to supply their units’ enhancements. Every time a unit evolves, it will unlock a new enhancement. This unit will now be able to travel to the next inner ring which contains the resource needed for their new enhancement.

There are 4 resource types. Each ring in the world contains a more advanced resource as you move towards the center. Resources can be mined by placing a unit on top of the resource. Every resource patch has a limited amount inside. When it is mined out, the resource will disappear. New resource patches will spawn into the world at a certain rate. There should be quite a few battles over the rarer resources. Be sure to protect your miners while they are harvesting a precious mineral!

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