Planets: The Exploration of Space, or Planets: TEOS for short, is a space drama that revolves around the interplanetary trading of goods. The main game play involves players buying items from one space station and transporting their purchases to another in hopes of selling the them at a profit.
As players accumulate their wealth, they can use it to purchase expansions to their ship, including more cargo bays, fighters drones (what players use to defend themselves), and shield batteries (when shields reach zero during battle, the player loses.) The ultimate goal of the game is to become powerful, taking over planets, buying bigger ships, and defeating NPCs and other players in space combat.
As players grow more powerful, they can attack and take over planets in the game. When they take over a planet, they can do several things, like restricting who can and can not travel to the planet directly (aka, not normally on their flight path), deposit money (like a personal bank), and determine how many fighters the planets has for its defense. Players can lose planets they have taken over in the same way that they took the planet. Planets produce fighter drones and money on their own, adding to the totals they have, making them more desirable to players.
By default, there are 26 planets available in the game, one of which is a planet called “Uniland”. Uniland is notable as being the first planet most players take over, since it has only one person on the planet and is easily taken over. Other planets often have “Utopia Planetary Defense” systems installed, giving planets extra defense against being taken over.
A large part of the game is in dealing with other human players. Players can ally themselves by establishing cartels. This lets players share resources better, such as swapping money or fighters by leaving them on planets. Effective cooperation makes it easier to conquer planets and take on other humans. But being allied with others can lead to devastating betrayal.
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