¶ Overview
Welcome to Influence, a space strategy sandbox MMO set in the asteroid belt of the Adalia system. Adalia is humanity’s new home after an ill-fated journey aboard the Arvad, a multi-generational ship that fled a dying Earth.
Compete with other players through multiple avenues: mining, building, trading, researching, and fighting. Colonize asteroids and exploit their resources, build infrastructure, discover technologies, engage in combat. Expand your influence across the belt, either solo or by collaborating with other players.
¶ Gameplay
Influence is for the player that loves the emergent gameplay and vibrant economy of Eve Online, the strategic focus of Stellaris, the sense of scale in the X-Series, and wants to own their experience and help shape their universe. It drives the player to answer the question: How will you expand your Influence?
- Asteroids can be viewed and manipulated from a third-person view, similar to strategy games like Stellaris, Civilization, or Starcraft. Construct buildings and ships that drive the economy.
- Mining for resources is the bedrock of economic activity in Influence. Every asteroid has a unique composition of resources that lie beneath its surface. Use extractors to pull out raw and unrefined materials. Then use refineries and factories to craft new items to use or trade on the open market.
- Ships are your key to traveling the asteroid belt. Influence employs realistic orbital mechanics and fuel consumption. Plot your flight plan to neighboring asteroids or far away destinations to trade resources or engage in combat.
- Combat takes place in real-time. Tailor your skills, talents, and ship capabilities in your fight for survival. Losing a battle means significant repairs, the loss of your cargo, or even the destruction of your ship.
- Technology and skills/talents are gained by playing the game and earning experience. Technology is society’s ability to build particular things. Skills/talents are personal decisions that assist you along your desired path.
- Crewmates are your characters in the game and can have one of five classes: Pilot, Merchant, Engineer, Miner, Scientist. Each class offers unique skills and boosts. Your crew complement can have up to five crewmates at a time, but whether you choose five pilots or a random assortment of the five classes is up to you.
¶ Cost to Play
Influence is among the first games to be built fully on blockchain and is designed to be approachable for new players at very low cost. Players need a crypto wallet, a crewmate, and a small amount of Ethereum for transaction fees* to get started. From there, it is entirely possible to play Influence without spending any money.
Optionally, players may choose to purchase Asteroids, Ships, or Crewmates as NFTs.
- Asteroids: The “land” that players can control and develop for personal profit.
- Ships: How players move across Adalia from asteroid to asteroid.
- Crewmates: The characters that live in Adalia and operate a player’s ship, buildings, and other interests.
You can play Influence and experience the game in its entirety without purchasing any NFTs. Lots on the largest asteroid, Adalia Prime, are available to all players for free. Acquire SWAY, the tokenized currency of Influence, by engaging in economy-driving activities such as mining and refining resources, taking them to market, and trading with other players.
* Note: The transaction fees are for getting started on the Ethereum blockchain. Influence does not receive any money from gas/transaction fees.
¶ Play + Earn
You earn SWAY simply by playing Influence.
- Extract resources or build goods to sell at a market.
- Manage a market and collect fees from each trade that takes place.
- Lease plots of your asteroid or members of your crewmates to other players.
- Provide liquidity at markets to earn incentives set by market owners.
- Trade and take advantage of arbitrage opportunities.
This wiki is created and maintained by Unstoppable Games, but welcomes and encourages community contributions.