Community Missions

Community Missions

Community Mission Details & Strategies
Community Mission Cycle	Strategies	List of Communities	NPC Transmissions

To join a community, refer to here.

• Community missions reset every 72 hours. The time of reset is the birth time of the community.
• There are 6 Acts instead of 5.
  • The playing field does not increase in size from Act 5 to Act 6, unlike other Act transitions.
• The community mission debriefing will only come at the fastest, 15 minutes after the mission reset time.
• You can only leave a community under 2 conditions:
  • You are inside the current community for more than 72 hours.
  • You have not attempted the community mission.
    • You are considered to have not attempted the mission if you did not kill a single Invader in the mission.
    • This means you can start the mission, but kill yourself before any Invader in wave 1-1 dies.
• Community missions frequently feature 2 affinities of Invaders.
  • The Invader affinity combination cycle is 7 missions long.
  • However, the mission venue cycle is only 6 missions long.
  • Thus, do not map a mission venue to the Invader affinities that might be appearing.
  • The cycle involving both Invader affinity and mission venue is thus 42 (6×7) missions long,
    • There is no point to list them all since you are only interested to find out the Invader affinities in the next community mission.
  • There is a possibility that one Invader affinity may not appear in your current community mission.
    • To find out the Invader affinity combination of your next community mission, check out the Invader affinity combination of the previous community mission, or even backtrack one further, as the number of community missions with Armored or Shielded Invaders are one too many, with a possibility of the other Invader affinity not appearing.
  • The affinity of Invaders will only change between Acts.
    • It is up to the mission generator on which Acts it so decides to change the Invader affinity (if at all).
    • The change of affinities can happen more than once, and can differ between different communities.

The difficulty level of community missions slowly ramp up as the Acts go by.

• It goes up to an approximate difficulty of Commander rank missions in Act 6.
• On some rare occasions, the difficulty does go up to Marshal rank missions, when MIRV Bloomers make their appearance.
• All communities have roughly the same difficulty level (for the same mission venue), so it does not matter which one you join in that aspect.

The rough difficulty progression of community missions is as follows:

1. Community Mission Act 1 Difficulty ≈ Bronze ranks, leftmost mission, Act 1
2. Community Mission Act 2 Difficulty ≈ Bronze ranks, middle mission, Act 2
3. Community Mission Act 3 Difficulty ≈ Silver ranks, middle mission, Act 3
4. Community Mission Act 4 Difficulty ≈ Silver ranks, rightmost mission, Act 4
5. Community Mission Act 5 Difficulty ≈ Gold ranks, middle mission, Act 5
6. Community Mission Act 6 Difficulty ≈ Gold ranks, rightmost mission, Act 5

Note that many communities are at a different mission venue than others due to creation time, so the difficulty may not feel the same as the mission venue is different.

• However, you can expect the same 2 Invader affinities for the same mission venue across all communities (or for those communities who are lagging behind, when it hits the mission venue another community has already passed, this applies).
• There are exceptions, where the mission generator may only generate one affinity of Invaders across all Acts for a certain community but not another community.
• You can also expect the same difficulty level for a specific community mission with the same Invader affinity combination (not counting the fact one affinity may sometimes not appear at all) in the same mission venue for any 2 communities, even if they may not currently be on the same mission as mentioned.

The breakdown of the community mission rewards per wave cleared is shown below:

Trivia: On 17 March 2024, due to the devs updating the servers to a newer version of Python and an updated code structure, which somehow caused the difficulty to be not taken into account, the community mission generator broke for one cycle. This created a hilariously easy community mission for all communities consisting of mostly T1 pellet launchers on all Invaders except in early waves. Here's how it looked like on one of these hilariously easy community missions.

Community Mission Cycle

The mission venue and mission cycles are as shown below. Note that the mission intel assumes the worst case scenario. There may be times where you may not have boomerangs in the mission.

By clicking on the different mission intel icons of Invader weaponry, you will be redirected to the strategies page of this guide to advise you on how to counter the specific Invader weaponry you click on.

Mission No	Mission Venue
1.	Zhey Auna
2.	Arcology CQ-6
3.	Prometheus Array
4.	Blight, Sector[3,84]
5.	Ceres Major
6.	Gau Prime

Mission No	Mission Type Combination
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Strategies

Community missions tend to feature very dense and/or heavy waves starting from Act 4 or 5, particularly Sparrows and Ravens .

• Using ships with AoE damage means you are going to have a lot of fun (and also have an easier time clearing them).
• You should not be afraid to spam your Aura because particles are generally abundant.
• Rocs and Condors can appear in both Act 5 and 6.
• Get a ship of the matching weapon affinity for later Acts, such as Act 5 and 6.

Community missions are very generic missions.

• Expect lasers and any type of bullets to appear.
  • However, Laser MIRVs , Caged MIRVs , speed lasers, Pellet Spinners (Wall), Shuriken Spreads and Doomsday weapons do NOT appear.
• Use a ship that matches the affinity of Invaders in later Acts.
• Community missions use a very dated mission generator, going back to even v1.0.

It is possible to further maximize the credit earning from community missions. This involves a lot of community hopping.

• The idea is to hop over to the next community whose community mission is very close to a reset, and quickly complete it before it can reset.
• You can leave the new community after 72 hours. Thus, you can complete 2 community missions in the same community - one just before the reset, and one during the 72 hours of the upcoming community mission.
• Repeat the above process to keep community hopping.
• Here are the exact steps:
  1. Wait for your current community to end. Make sure you have been there for at least 72 hours.
  2. Join a new community where the reset time is very soon. E.g. 30 minutes.
  3. Complete the mission to gain ¢400.
  4. Wait for the community mission to reset and complete the new mission, to gain another ¢400.
  5. Wait ~72h for this new community mission to reset. Do NOT complete this new mission.
  6. Join a new community that ends soon and repeat ad infinitum.
• The ideal case is that you always find a community whose reset time is about 30 minutes after the community you were at (to give you time to complete the mission).
  • Let's call this difference in reset time as x, in terms of hours.
  • Now x < 72 for sure.
  • This translates you getting 800¢ every (72 + x) hours, instead of 800¢ every 144 hours (2×72).
  • In the long run, you earn more credits.
• The reset time of the various known communities are shown below to aid you in this credit maximization technique.
  • Give and take 1 minute for accuracy (±1 minute for the time shown below).
• It may be desirable to find a community with a comfortable reset time so that you can clear 2 community missions in a row.

List of Communities

Note that how many players are in the community and how many active players in the community will not be stated here, as this changes all the time.

• Previously active communities may go inactive after some time.
• Previously inactive communities may become active after some time.
• Communities that have their reset times close to the reset time of daily/specialist missions (within 30 minutes) are italicized.
• Active communities (that generally have more players on the leaderboards) are highlighted.
  • I do not intend to update this table frequently, so these highlighted communities are just a general guide.

NPC Transmissions

If you tap on Community Mission without joining a community, Operator Mian gives you the following transmission:

Join or create a community to play community missions.

Depending on which rank you are at, you will be reporting to different NPCs. These NPCs give you a different transmission depending if you cleared the community mission or not at mission debriefing. Below shows the list of possible transmissions you can receive from the different NPCs:

	Captain Merrick	Commander Khier	Marshal Liss
NPC appears in:	Bronze ranks	Silver ranks	Gold ranks	Marshal rank
Community Mission Debriefing (Mission not cleared)	Flying extra missions? Great!	Here's the result of your Community mission, I appreciate the extra effort	Community mission done! Let's check the next one.	Community missions are great practice, here's your result
	Community missions are more difficult than your Daily missions, good job!	Flying extra Community missions? Good job.	You flew another Community mission? Good job.	Another Community mission done!
	Another Community mission flown, that's the spirit!	Another Community mission debriefing, your records keep improving.	Here's the debriefing for your Community mission.	Those Community missions can be refreshing, here's your debriefing.
				Some of those Community missions are quite tricky.
				You're flying a lot of missions, good job.
Community Mission Debriefing (Mission cleared)	Wow, you completed a Community mission, incredible job!	These Community missions are a proper challenge, well done.	Nice flying! Community missions remain challenging.	Community mission completed, excellent!
	Great flying, Community missions are very challenging!	You achieved this as well? I'm impressed.	Community mission completed! Very nicely done.	I appreciate your efforts to beat these Invaders, another great result.
	Community mission completed. Amazing skills!	Community mission completed, I respect that.	Another phenomenal performance! Community mission completed.	Another Community mission completed, well done.
				Success, 100% for your Community mission.
				Great flying Marshal.