Battlestar galactica online game guide

If you have not made a selection once the 30 seconds has expired, the game will take you to the neareat of the two options by default. You will get a cut screen telling you that Search and Rescue operations have commenced, and you wil then find yourself docked inside an outpost. Your ship and the equipment will get a certain amount of damage done to it when you are blown up. You can repair this damage when docked. When you FTL jump into a system you will have 10 seconds to start a clean jump out of the system before your ship actually spawns i.

This is designed to make it easier to escape in case enemy players are in your spawn aware referred to as spawn camping. This way you will not have long to wait from being shot at and getting threat until you jump out.

If you do any action which moves your ship e. You log out of the game by clicking on the last button on the Menu bar located on the top right hand corner of the game screen. This will give you a drop down menu, of which the last button which looks like a X and when you point your mouse at it says "Exit Game". Click it. See the following image -. This will then bring up another window near the top middle of your screen if you are docked, it will appear immediately below the "Undock" button asking if you are sure if you want to exit the game see the following image -.

If you wish to remain in the game, click on "No". It would appear this two step log out process is to avoid accidental logouts. If you are not in battle but are flying in space in your ship, it will take 20 seconds to log out. When you are out in space in a system trying to log out ,your ship will turn off i. You will stay immobile until the timer is gone and you are either logged out or destroyed.

Note when you log back in, whatever system you were in at the time you last logged out is where you will start. If you were docked in an Outpost, Battlestar Galactica, or Basestar in Apollid, you will be docked in them. When an enemy is close the word "Threat" will blink above your Dradis. It will also blink "Threat" if an enemy fires its cannons at you. If missiles are shot at you, you will hear a bleeping noise and above the Dradis you will see a picture of a missile for each missile shot at you.

Your ship has a maximum amount of 50 slots in its hold. It can carry unlimited amounts of whatever is in each slot. On any ship from the smallest ship to the biggest.

Cubits are the game's premium currency. You can get Cubits from killing NPCs, salvaging, completing missions, or by purchasing it with real money. Maximum Range : Is the maximum distance the cannons can shoot but, as it gets farther away, it decreases in accuracy. At metres you will be shooting 20 points damage. At metres, depending on your skill upgrades, you will be shooting from a minimum of 10 points damage as you get farther away the less you have a chance of hitting your target and when you do it will not be your full strength, thus costing more ammo.

Missions and daily assignments are to help you get to know the game and see where everything is and how it all works. Whilst these missions help explain the story behind the game to you, they are designed to also teach you the basics about the various facets of the game. There are approximately 6 of these missions to complete. As you complete various parts of each mission you will have dialogue to read and click on to proceed. Tip : if you have dialogue following combat in a mission, do not click on the dialogue straight away.

This will allow any damage your ship suffered in combat to start repairing. If you read thru the dialogiue and click on the "Ok" button quickly, you will reduce your repair time, and this may see your ship get destroyed before completing the mission. If you fail to complete the mission, you may only re-attempt by increasing at least one level in the game.

To abandon a Mission in progress, click the Abandon button on the right-hand side of HUD Heads Up Display — this will end the mission, which may then be attempted again by speaking to the relevant character.

Read this page for more information. The game has a number of star systems in which players from the enemy faction cannot enter, or only limited numbers of them are alloowed in at any one time.

This is to allow newer players to have some systems where they can hone their skills with areduced chance of being attacked by high level players.

If a player attempts to jump into a system which has reached its limit for enemy pilots, players will be informed and given the option of either: a commencing their FTL jump to the system when room is available; or b cancelling the jump.

If a player is destroyed in combat in a system, in which their faction is subject of system limitations, yet their faction has an Outpost in the system, if the maximum number of players has been reached following their destruction, theplayer will not be able to respawn at the Outpost in the system.

Players attempting an FTL jump to a system that their faction is unable to enter, after clicking on "Jump" will get a message telling them that the system is off limits by order of high command and the jump will automatically abort.

There is no way to over-ride this. Arena is an area where players may conduct private matches against other players without any interference from non-invited combatants or npcs. Arena matches allow P v P between specific players in private 'instanced' areas, separate from the main game world.

These were removed from the game with Update They were replaced by Dradis Interdiction Missions. These were removed from the game with Game Update They were replaced by the Dradis Contact Mini-Game. There were a number of different tournament types originally in the game. Upon entering a Tournament Sector, a message appears informing you that you are in a Tournament PvP zone as well as outlining the rules and structure for the Tournament.

As of March , there are predominantly two types of tournaments, Strike Tournaments and Escort Tournaments now in the game. These are like a 3rd set of assignments.

Completing certain objectives in the game will grant you special titles known as "Duties:. Duty Titles are names of the different levels as you complete a goal it will increase and you can choose to have a title you have gotten displayed on your pilot info.

You can select one title at a time as your active title. In the future it was planned that your active duty title will also grant a statistic or skill bonus while equipped. This has not eventuated to date. These duties include: the amount of asteroids scanned; the amount of reosurcet mined; the amount of systems traveled to; the amount of NPCs destroyed; the amount of p v p kills; the amount of particular ship types e.

Then choose "I'd like to requisition a new ship Buy, Upgrade and Change ships ". This then opens the "Hangar" screen. Choose the ship you want fly and click on the "Command" button. You will be asked if you want to command this ship.

Click "Yes" and you be in command of your selected ship. If you choose the "Hangar" tab directly instead whilst docked, you bypass all the talk with the NPCs. If you are onboard an Outpost when switching ships, this will take 30 seconds. Changing ships on the Galactica or Basestar is instantaneous.

This is no longer the case. When you talk to one of the above NPCs, choose the "Let's talk about ships" option. Choose the ship you want and click on "Requisition".

You will be asked if you want to buy this ship. Click "Yes" and you will have your new ship. If you choose the "Hangar" tab, you bypass all the talk with the NPCs. The costs for each ship is displayed on their respective pages on this wiki. Use the "Cylon" or "Colonial" tabs on the menu bar to get the drop downs for "Strike Ships", "Escort Ships", "Line Ships" or "Capital Ships" and select the ship's page you wish to look at.

The cost of the ship will be displayed in the table on the page under " Purchase Cost". It should be noted the Battlestar Pegasus and the Basestar may only be rented for a period of up to 1 hour or until destroyed which ever occurs first.

You need to attain particular levels before you can purchase certain types of craft. To summarise you need to reach the following levels to use the following types of ships:. To find the cost, go the page of the Advanced version of the ship you are interested in. A link to the page for each Advanced version is included on the page for the unadvanced version of each ship which is accessed as described in the above section.

For details click on the link to go to the page on each one. An advanced ship's defult paint job is shiney whilst the non advanced ship's defult paint job is rusty. There are a number of custom paints also referred to as "skins" players may purchase in-game, or that were available as rewards for certain special events. Consult the page for each ship to see what paints are available if any besides the default paint for that ship. Paint jobs may be applied to the Paint slot on their ships by dragging to and from your Hold or Locker — the same as with any other system.

Pilots are able to browse, preview, and select the paint jobs available for their current ship here. In all cases, pilots with a Level higher than 20 are treated as if their Level is 20 for the purposes of this system. If your pilot's Level is no more than 5 Levels higher than an opponent, you will receive full XP and Loot from defeating that opponent.

If your pilot's Level is more than 5 Levels higher than an opponent, the XP and Loot you receive will be reduced. Note that when in Squadrons, XP and loot from defeated opponents is first divided among the members of the Squadron as usual, and then their individual Levels are compared to the Level of the opponent to determine any reduction in the XP or loot they receive.

For more information about loot and rewards, please read this page. To enjoy the game better join a wing. For even more fun use a 3rd party comunications to talk to each other e. The first time you log into the game each day, you will receive a Daily Login Bonus. The Daily Login Bonus increases in value for each consecutive day you log into the game, reaching its maximum value after 5 consecutive days.

If you miss a day, your login bonus will revert to day 1. Tuning Kits can only be used to upgrade a System by one Level at a time. When using Tuning Kits, there is a 'chance' for the upgrade to succeed. The more Tuning Kits used, the higher the 'chance' for a successful upgrade.

The higher the Level of the upgrade attempted and the more expensive the ship System, the more Tuning Kits will be required for a given chance of success. Only Tuning Kits can be used to attempt to upgrade ship Systems above the Level 10, up to a maximum of Level 15 these upgrades cannot be purchased directly with Tylium and Cubits. You can purchase Tuning Kits for 1, cubits per tuning kit in the Item Shop.

Do your DEOs Disrupt enemy operations daily assignment for the day. You need to wait 2 nights to do it again an easy way to max your merits out. One of the most important things needed to have the game work at its best is to clear both cache browser and unity player after every update to make sure that no old bugs are there.

It will take a bit to reload everything at first but you are reloading everything fresh and updated Turning down the graphics quality and turning off certain effects as suggested in the above ALERT will help playability. Read the minimum requirements to play ,.

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Register Don't have an account? Bsgo Guide by Jdog. Edit source History Talk 1. User name, ship icon, hull points and power Cylon player. Slots where weapons may be equipped are circled in blue. This article is a stub. That means it is not complete or it is missing vital information. You can help the Battlestar Galactica Online Wiki by adding what you know to it. Thank you. Categories Article stubs Guides Add category. Your cannons fire automatically once an asteroid is in range so turn them off until you are ready to attack an asteroid.

Watch for fighters or drones that may attack you in asteroid areas. Your map shows the locations of asteroids you just have to fly out to them. At the core of Battlestar Galactica Online is the battle for sectors. Both sides can control sectors in the game and with enough control; an outpost ship will jump into the sector for use by the side with the most control.

This ship can be destroyed too so it must be protected. If control drops enough in the sector, the ship will jump out. Mine resources, destroy enemy ships, or other players to increase the control of the sector. The interface will flash warning about sectors that are under attack by enemies. Team up with friends and go to that sector to bring it back under the control of your side. The map shows blue for Colonial sectors and red for Cylon sectors.

Try to protect your colony ships, as they are needed by your team players to rearm and repair their ships without having to fly back to the Galactica. In the game, you can train various pilot skills with experience points. Skills cover such areas as flying, using missiles, mining, and so on. Click on a skill and decide which ones you want to train.

Ones in white are the skills you can currently afford to train. It is up to each pilot to decide which skills to train. Flying and better use of weapons is a good starting point.

You can also use the arrows at the top and bottom to change your speed. Under that is the booster button it looks like a side ways triangle with jagged flames. There is two ways to use your booster by clicking on the button or by pressing and holding the spacebar.

Under the radar are three target hexagons. The blue icon on the far left is for automatically targeting the nearest colonial enemy for cylon ship. The red icon on the far right will automatically target the nearest cylon enemy for colonial in range.

At the bottom of the screen it a long bar that fills up when you get EP this is the level bar it tells you how much EP you have and how much you need for the next Lvl. On the bottom right shows you your ship with your equipped cannons and rocket launchers clickable to disarm or arm. These use power every time you uses them. The top left corner is your icon showing your username, level, the red bar is the ships hp and the blue bar is your power points watch your hp and power during battle to see when you need to get out of there.

When you have something targeted it will appear under the name of the system and show the name of the object and its hp and power if it has any, and the distance from you. On the top right of your screen you have 4 different camera modes to view game play and buttons to zoom in and out on your ship. To the right of those are the help, wing, hold, pilot info, leader board, options. The first step is you get to choose a name for your self but make a good long hard decision on your because you cant change it.

But only this one time so you are that way for now. The last step is to choose your ship out of the 2 basic ships a Viper MK II interceptor class ship or a Raptor command class ship. The Viper has less computer modules but is faster and has more hull slots. Global versions of these channels are restricted to English, as before Localized versions of channels allow players to chat in other languages, according to the client language selected from the drop-down in the upper-right of the game website where you login to the game A small icon in the chat entry field shows which channel you are currently using for chat — clicking this icon will switch between the Global represented by a globe icon and Localized represented by a flag of the appropriate nationality channels You can filter your chat window to display only Global, only Localized or both channels via small icons to the lower right of the chat window.

There are now small icons to the left of the chat window that act as shortcuts for sending a message to the Fleet, System, Open and Whisper channels note that these icons will automatically switch between the Global and Localized versions of these channels, according to which you have chosen to use via the icon in the chat entry field. And read the tutorials help messages!! But only if your close enough to the outpost ship.

Other wise try to find friendly ships to help. The harder it is the more experience you get depending on the map you are in. Levels: 1 — 0 Nugget — Optio v1. To dock on a outpost ship click on it and when you are close enough only a button will appear saying Dock click it.

When inside you must wait 5 seconds to undock. Here u can buy stuff by clicking the requisition button to buy. At the top click Hold then click on the item you want to sell and click salvage and choose how much of the item you want to get rid of. If you change your mind click on the cancel button.

At the top click Hold. Drag the item from your hold and drop it onto its right spot whether it is a W: for Weapon C: for Computer H: for Hull E: for Engine You can only use light equipment with light ships, so on and so forth. By left-clicking on a system a description will pop up. The description tells you information about how far the system is from your current one how much Tylium fuel it will take from you to jump. And the threat Lvl. Under the description if you are close enough there will be a JUMP button right click it and wait for the count down to finish.

While you are in countdown mode you can not fight because all your ships power is being used for the jump. You can right click on a cannon to change ammo. If your cannons are not armed push G to arm your cannons. Your cannons are armed when they are lit up.

To disarm them push G. When you have blown up the target you will get a reward click take to add it to your Hold.

If your rockets are not armed click the rocket icon to arm them. Your rockets are armed when they are lit up. To disarm them click them again and the light goes out. Click on your target you want to shoot and when you get in range push F to fire your rockets or click on the rocket icon to shoot. When they have reloaded push again etc. They are great for selling to get tylium. It will give you a list to add as friends, follow, info, or invite.

To dismiss a player from group click the avatar and click on the button that says dismiss. You can also give up leader ship to another or leave the group. If you have friends you can see the list of them on your pilot info window and can click there names to send whispers and mouse over there name to see what map they are in.

Noobs will have the Gopher cannon and a scanner. Its made to mine not to fight with but you can use it during battles if you get attacked while mining. Make sure you have your all cannons disarmed click on a asteroid and click the scanner when you get a asteroid that has a color other then red and it tells you there is something in it you can arm your mining cannon not your regular cannons.

Arm your mining cannon by clicking on it. Your cannon is armed when it is lit up. To disarm it click it again. If you both scan it at the same time whoever shoots it first gets the stuff. If you are in range basic noob range it will automatically fire you just have to keep the target in sight. Go to it and when you are close scan it. If it shows it has any resource in it a prompt will appear asking if you want to lay a mining ship.