Turrets

The turrets in your Base can be be used to counter attacks from either computer generated insects or from other players.

You start the game with 4 Vulture level turrets and can build two additional Vulture turrets for 299.

Upgrades
Existing turrets can be upgraded by first purchasing the research at the Tactics and Strategy section (Research Center), studying the research (also at the Research Center), and finally selecting and upgrading a turret.

There is no explicit level requirement for the research or upgrade. However, you will encounter limits based on the amount of resources you can collect within the Storage Depot.

Base Defense
From time to time, your Base will be randomly attacked by a waves of spiders, sliders and bombers. Their intent is to damage your buildings. See Random Encounters for more information on such attacks.

Your base will attempt to automatically protect itself against these attacks by using its turrets.

All turrets have the same range, but higher upgrade turrets deliver a higher amount of damage per second.

Player vs Player (PvP) Attacks
Your turrets also come into play during attacks by other players. If the attacking player is detected, they first have to deal with one of your turrets.

The chances of detection can be improved as follows:
 * Each turret you have increases the chance of detection by 5%.
 * Building the Radar increases the chance of detection by 20%.
 * Selecting the Radar and activating Shield Mode will double the chance of detection.

Its possible to temporarily increase the change of detection to 100%.