Capturing hexes — points, sectors, and the mayor

After you discover a hex, you can capture it. Capture grows your rating and your faction's rating in the sector, and lets you build structures on the captured hex.

What capture means

Capture is the act of taking a hex under your faction's control.

The hex becomes yours. After capture it joins your territory and is marked as belonging to your faction.
You can build on it. Structures can only be placed on captured hexes.
You gain sector points. Every captured hex adds to your rating in the sector and brings you closer to the mayor title.
Bonus resources. Captured hexes drop more resources than uncaptured ones.

How much it costs

Capture is paid for with materia.

An empty (neutral) hex — 1 unit of materia.
An enemy-faction hex — 3 units of materia.

How to capture enemy territory

Enemy territory can only be captured from the edge. To capture an enemy hex, two of your already-captured hexes must be adjacent to it.

How to defend your territory

To protect your borders, build towers along the edge — they're expensive to destroy, which holds the enemy back.

What a sector is

The whole world is split into huge sectors: each sector has around 117,000 hexes. A sector is like a "city" with its own economy, residents and mayor. You can see your sector by the icon in the top-left corner of the map.

Sector points

Sector points are added automatically for every captured hex. Your current score is shown above the sector name in the top-left corner of the screen.

An empty captured hex — 1 point.
A hex with an ordinary building — 10 points.
A forpost — 50 points.
A propaganda tower — 200 points.

The sector mayor

The mayor is the player with the highest point total in the sector. The title comes with real power: the mayor receives taxes from the whole sector.

Elections are held on the 1st of every month. The server tallies the rating of every resident in the sector and crowns the highest scorer as mayor. The previous mayor is stripped of the title.
Mayor tax — 8% or 10%. Every month, all residents of the sector pay the mayor a tax on the resources gathered in the sector: 8% if the mayor is of your faction, 10% if of an enemy faction.

Monthly shrink of the discovered map

Once a month the map shrinks from the outer edges — uncaptured hexes disappear. To keep your holdings, capture more hexes.