How to beat the "Magni" Level?

[planschi76]

Hi!
I´m always failing in beating the Magni Level.
It´s not enough time, not enough money.
I´m able to install the town protection screen, but not to grow to a lvel 4 town. Always tight money.
Any hints or help?
Thanks!
Andreas.

[Wuik]

I had the same trouble cos I don't know how to make a city level 4 efficiently! so i stop the campaign and i play on the mode competition to practice and find the best tactic...
one time the tactics found you may win in the last 5 minutes whith all the quest completed !
I wrote the 27 May some little tips when I finished all the achievements but it was before the last patch...
good game!

[Jens]

Thanks for the hints Wuik. It's important to stay profitable with your city and therefor a good tactic is to establish your city very balanced city and secure the supply of any needed resource. City districts with low life quality generate significantly less taxes and you will not have enough money to invest in expansion. Selling shares of your colony gives more money to expansion as well. And while having a time goal you can reduce the speed of game time to make more and better strategic decisions.Please tell us if this helps. I will have to test play the level myself asap to see if any balancing changes in the last update made it too hard achieving this goal ..

[Lantantan]

I did beat it, but it was by far the level that I had to restart most. (On hardest without selling shares.) I recall having more than one upgraded warehouse per city to harvest rare recourses fast enough to fund my development with.

[LotusBlade]

Gonna give some more advices regarding Magni for those who will search for winning ways.

1) Reduce game difficulty - before starting mission you can see exclamation marks in bottom right side of briefing menu. Click them to reduce from 2 (normal) to 1 (easy);

2) Construct you first city at north side of planet, where its recomended (fertile ground);

3) Use oil rigs to get 126 energy, there are lots of oil everywhere, search for 100% oil spots in ocean. Later use coast wind turbins to get 90 energy when you will be out of oil spots;

4) Use clams + fishery for first two sources of food (aim for 48+ food), later you can build whatever as third (fruits gatherers);

5) Use stone quarry for goods, upgrade its production if you can, later build electronic and recyclers (they both must be placed near districts for bonus production);

6) Always make sure you have 50+ of every resource (energy, food, goods), since if it goes to "-", your income will be reduced alot;

7) Build atleast 2 upgraded warehouses in your first town (better since start) and upgrade their additional storage space for all goods types;

8) Cut all the trees around you, it wount affect planet too much but will give you extra resources just to make sure you will be alright in case of temporary negative goods income; Do not sell goods and food to trader;

9) Plunder pyramids and temples, collect gold, lithium, ideon - sell them (you need a lot of cash early);

10) Before your 20 minutes end, do not rush game quest even if you already can place a shield on lvl 4 town. Use that extra time to stack resources and make second town to the left of first one (dont place near blue liquids);

11) Remember, that your resources are shared between all warehouses, so you can use second town for getting food and goods, instead of districts. The only thing you might want to do with it is expand to lvl 2 for extra space;

12) When enemy ship arrives - donate your resources to it instead of building research districts and lasers. It doesnt take much effort, since you should have like +600 of everything by that moment;

13) Second wave of enemies - destroy 1 ship by building 2 (better 3) sience districts with lasers or watchtowers / buoys with lasers. Donate to second one. They are separate entities, so you can be a nice guy to one and furious destroyer to other — they are not alies and dont care how you deal with situation;

14) By the third wave of enemies you will already have enaught resources to donate to 2 ships at once, destroy the third one using the same lasers you already have (just make sure you left the closest one to your town);

15) Prepare some medicine, your towns will start getting ill at this point;

16) After winning game continue missions to get ideon and research points from shops (after you clear Magni from ideon, you will be able to use jump gates to get to the second campaign map);

P.S. Get used to clicking pause button when you think about something or investigating planet, it takes soo much time...