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A Radar Facility is a building that detects ships going to your planet for either probing or attacking.

• The Radar Facility has an early warning system.
• If you are being attacked the Radar Facility will detect the fleet (depending on the Radar Facility level, see chart) and warn you of the attack varying minutes in advance.
• Although the constant detection does have energy requirements which will reduce resource production speed in your base.
• The higher the level of Radar Facility, the more effective it is at detection, including which ships it can detect.
• Not sure on the timeframe for incoming attacks.
• Usually it's a 15 min window.

Level of Radar Facility Ship able to detect
Level 1 Light Fighter
Level 2 Probe
Level 4 Colony Ship
Level 5 Cargo Ship
Level 7 Heavy Fighter
Level 8 Recycler
Level 10 Large Cargo Ship
Level 11 Cruiser
Level 12 Battleship
Level 13 Dreadnought
Level 14 Destroyer, Interceptor, Iron Behemoth, Bomber ,Devourer Interceptor ,Titanenergetic Frigate, Annihilator.
Costs to Upgrade the Radar Facility
Level
Level 1 80 40 0
Level 2 168 84 3
Level 3 352 176 6
Level 4 740 370 9
Level 5 1555 777 13
Level 6 3267 1633 21
Level 7 6861 3430 32
Level 8 14408 7204 48
Level 9 30258 15129 74
Level 10 64K 31K 112
Level 11 133K 67K 171
Level 12 280K 140K 260
Level 13 588K 294K 395
Level 14 1.23M 617K 601
Level 15 2.59M 1.29M 913

Tips:Edit

• Upgrading your Radar Facility until it can see Bombers is unnecessary because it is unlikely that someone will send a fleet of only Bombers (They use more gas than they can store).
• The Radar Facility is very useful because the early warning system gives you time to handle the situation properly.
• If your planet is running low on space, you can upgrade your Radar Facility to level 10, because most attackers will send Large Cargo Ships and Recyclers for loot.
• Currently Level 14 is the highest level for Early Warning Radar Facility.

Build / Upgrade TimeEdit

• Rows: Goal Upgrade Level
• Columns: Robotics Facility Level
• Result: Upgrade Time
• Note: Times recorded using a Commander Lv1. which confers a construction time -10%
Time for each Upgrade Level (U) for each Robotics Facility Level (R)
R0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
U1 5s 5s 5s 5s 5s 5s 5s
2 15s 15s 15s
3 42s 27s
4 1m 29s 1m 11s 59s
5 1m 47s 1m 33s
6 3m 46s 3m 18s
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14

FormulasEdit

Time to BuildEdit

The time to build formula is:
$t=(1-d)\cdot \frac { A }{ (r+1) } \cdot { e }^{ B\cdot l }$
with the following variables:
• t = time [seconds]
• d = Bonus Discount [%]
• r = Robotics Facility Level
• l = Upgrade Level
And the following constants
As derived from the following Equations:
Solve for B
$B\quad =\quad \frac { \ln { \left( \frac { { t }_{ 2 }({ r }_{ 2 }+1)(1-{ d }_{ 1 }) }{ { t }_{ 1 }(1-{ d }_{ 2 })({ r }_{ 1 }+1) } \right) } }{ \left( { l }_{ 2 }-{ l }_{ 1 } \right) }$
And Solve for Constant A
$A=\frac { t(r+1) }{ { e }^{ Bl }(1-d) }$

(Best Value as of Apr 25, 2014)
• A = Constant = 19.7979797979798
• B = Constant = 0.747914864323704
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