Tips & Tricks

Fast Travel via Resource Tiles

Wall Squads Management

For various events or situations, it makes sense to station or withdraw squads on the wall. Wall squads actively defend your base. That’s good in principle, but usually you’ll be attacked by stronger players you can’t beat. If you assign lots of squads to defense, you can quickly lose all your produced units (see Combat System).

Saving Radar Tasks

You don’t have to complete Radar Tasks right away when new ones arrive every six hours. Especially for VS days, it makes sense to save tasks.

To do this, finish the current set of tasks but don’t collect the rewards (tasks with a red dot are done). This way, they don’t expire and new tasks fill the storage every six hours. Ideally, the storage should never be full, or the 6-hour countdown for new tasks stops.

Example: You get ten tasks every six hours and the storage is 35. On the day before VS, save up tasks until the next batch would overflow the storage. Then complete tasks until storage shows 24/35. The next ten tasks will fit perfectly without overflowing. In the morning, storage shows 34/35 and you can complete the max number of tasks.

It might take a caouple tries to get the hang of it, but then it will become very easy to pile up these Radar Tasks!

Shop Guide

This overview is a rough guide for what makes sense to buy in which shops.

Decoration Guide

Reinforcing Bases

In almost all game modes, you can reinforce allied bases. Select the friendly building and click the button with the person and shield on the left. You can then send one of your teams to defend.

Once they arrive, you’ll see all squads in the building. You can click the three dots to see the team’s status and recall them if needed. Commanders of the reinforced base can also end the reinforcement and send the squads back.

Using Shields

Shields give bases protection from attacks for a certain period. This is essential for the last day of VS, but can also give you peace in other situations. Shields can be bought in the Alliance Shop for Alliance Points or directly for Diamonds.

To activate, click your base on the world map and select the yellow shield button. There you can buy shields for Diamonds or activate shields bought in the Alliance Shop.

Secretary Positions

Secretaries give substantial bonuses in various areas. You should never operate without them if possible! You must apply for a position at the Capitol (see chart below) and usually have five minutes to use the bonuses. All actions taken during the short term benefit from the bonuses, even if they last much longer than the term itself. If you build a building as Secretary of Development, the build time for that building is permanently reduced.

• Secretary of Strategy
  • Hospital Capacity: +20%
  • Healing Speed: +20%
  • Especially helpful on PvP Saturdays when the hospital needs to empty quickly.
• Secretary of Defense
  • Training Limit: +20%
  • Training Speed: +20%
  • Especially helpful with Arms Race and essential on Day 5 of VS.
• Secretary of Development
  • Build Speed: +50%
  • Research Speed: +25%
  • Ideally, start all buildings with this bonus.
• Secretary of Science
  • Research Speed: +50%
  • Build Speed: +25%
  • Ideally, start all research with this bonus.
• Secretary of Interior
  • Resource Production: +100%
  • Use: Let resource production fill up, grab the minister, collect.

Saving and Retrieving Favorites

You can save almost any object (building, zombie, truck, mission) on the world map as a favorite. When you click the object, there’s a star button at the top right. You can then put the object in one of three categories: "Special," "Friend," or "Enemy," and add a short description.

R4 and R5 can also save favorites for the whole alliance. These get a unique symbol and can be set with a countdown. If so, they also appear as events in the alliance members’ to-do list. Each symbol can only be used once.

To access your favorites, use the search function on the world map at the bottom left (the magnifying glass). Your favorites will then appear at the top of the screen as a horizontal bar. There you will also see the three categories “Special,” “Friend,” and “Enemy,” as well as your alliance favorites.

ATTENTION: A small selection of moving objects (e.g., Doom Walkers) cannot be favorited very well. This is because the game only remembers the coordinates once, but the Wanderer has passed by relatively quickly. However, the system works well with trains and trucks.