Flux

Flux is a galaxy effect that is present in all official games (excluding 1v1s and the new player game), it changes on the 1st of every month.

Flux affects games in interesting ways that mix up the metagame from month to month.

Note: Flux is applied when a game is created. If the flux changes, it does not affect in progress games.

Flux Types

Month	Description
January	End of cycle Banking rewards are decreased.	Banking reward multiplier is reduced from 75 to 50.
February	Capturing Star rewards for destroying Economy are increased.	Increased from 10 credits to 25 per Economy point.
March	Research points from Science are increased.	Research contribution from Science is increased from 1 to 2 points per Science.
April	Capital Stars have an increased Defender Bonus.	Capital Stars have x2 Defender Bonus.
May	End of cycle Experimentation rewards are increased.	Experimentation reward multiplier is increased from 50 to 100.
June	Trade cost is increased to ‘Very Expensive’.	50 credits per technology level.
July	Weapons technology is fixed.	Weapons technology is fixed at Level 7.
August	The Defender Bonus is disabled.
September	Production Cycles are shorter.	Production Cycles are shorter by 6 ticks.
October	The number of specialist bans is increased.	Increased from 3 to 6 bans.
November	Increased starting credits and specialist tokens.	Credits are increased by x2 (max 3000) and Specialist Tokens are increased by x2 (max 100)
December	Gain more rank points from playing games.	Rank rewards are increased by x2 on top of any other multipliers (special games grant x2).