Ratings and achievements

The rating

Every run that ends, however it ends, is rated:

Bases count most, since destroying them is how a run is won. Thalorite counts when you deliver it, so spending it costs you nothing. Kills count only up to 100, so lingering to farm the last base’s launches only costs time. Time is charged lightly: the Morgons charge for it already, by taking stations.

The result screen shows the run’s numbers: how it ended, the system’s code, the time flown, Morgons and bases destroyed, Thalorite delivered, what’s left in your account, what the Morgons’ miners took, any artifact found, and the rating and its rank.

Ranks

A clean win in about 90 minutes reaches THALORAN.

Your best run

The game keeps your best run on the device, with its rating, rank, ending, date and system code. The title screen shows it, and the result screen says NEW BEST when you beat it.

Leaderboards

Signed in to Game Center, every finished run’s rating goes on a leaderboard:

• BEST RATING, for runs on a random system (NEW GAME), all-time.
• SYSTEM OF THE WEEK, starting afresh every Monday at 00:00 UTC, for runs on that week’s system finished that week.

Runs on a typed code go on neither, since a player could pick a system they’ve learned. Game Center’s access point is on the title screen.

Achievements

Achievements are earned in any kind of run and kept on the device. To keep Game Center’s banner out of a fight, it hears of them only when time next stops: on the map, when you pause, dock or reach the result screen.