Game Modes

Career Mode

Build, fight, and scavenge to become a legendary Cosmoteer whilst exploring a galaxy.

The Career Mode icon

Career Mode is the main game mode of Cosmoteer, and largely involves exploring the galaxy and completing resources in order to build the most powerful ship, and reach the highest tier of Fame. Career mode can be played either alone in singleplayer or with up to three other people in multiplayer.

Difficulties

Cosmoteer offers two ways to increase or decrease the difficulty of Career mode, in order to better tailor the experience to suit the player. The first way to modify a Career Mode's difficulty is by changing the Combat Difficulty, which affects how much damage you deal to enemies, and how much damage enemies deal to you.

Combat Difficulty Tiers

Name	Difficulty	Damage Modifiers	Other Modifiers
Civilian	"No Death"	Enemies deal no damage Normal damage dealt to enemies	Can repair in combat
Ensign	Easy	Enemies deal 30% less damage 40% more damage dealt to enemies	N/A
Captain	Standard	Enemies deal normal damage Normal damage dealt to enemies	N/A
Admiral	Hard	Enemies deal 25% more damage 20% less damage dealt to enemies	N/A
Grand Admiral	Very Hard	Enemies deal 40% more damage 30% less damage dealt to enemies	N/A

The other way to modify Career Mode's difficulty is through the Economic Difficulty setting. This affects how fast the player moves through the game, by modifying the resource drop rates, money rewards, fame rewards and resource selling price.

Economic Difficulty Tiers

Name	Difficulty	Resource Drop Rates	Money Rewards	Fame Rewards	Resource Sell Price	Other Effects
Imagineer	"Free Build"	Normal	Normal	Normal	50% of Buy Price	Can build anywhere
Builder	Fast	100% increase	100% increase	50% increase	100% of Buy Price	N/A
Architect	Standard	Normal	Normal	Normal	50% of Buy Price	N/A
Starwright	Slow	50% decrease	50% decrease	25% decrease	25% of Buy Price	N/A

Both Combat difficulty and Economic Difficulty can be modified at any time throughout the playthrough of a Career Mode game. Simply open the Settings panel in the middle of the game, navigate to Current Game > Difficulty, and make the desired change.

Gameplay

An example of the missions one might see throughout gameplay.

When playing Career Mode, the basic objective is to complete missions in order to gain fame and resources. Stations play an integral role in the gameplay of Career Mode, and when hailed, they allow you to accept missions, trade resources, hire crew and purchase Blueprints. They are regularly visited by Trade Ships, which restock the station with resources and can be hailed for trading and hiring crew.

There are several different types of missions that can be accepted, and they can be characterised as Bounties, Faction Conflict, Deliveries and Exploration.

Creative Mode

Design ships with unlimited credits and all blueprints unlocked.

In Creative Mode players can design ship with unlimited credits and resources, and with all blueprints unlocked by default. Saved ship designs can be loaded at any time for testing or roleplaying. By default galaxies generated in Creative Mode will feature Sun|Suns, Planets, Moons, and Hyper-Jump Relays, however they can be disabled if desired.

Multiplayer Exclusive

Elimination

A fight to the death! The last surviving player or team wins!

Arena

Earn points by damaging and destroying other players! You will respawn when destroyed.

Domination

Capture control points to earn credits and use those credits to warp in new ships. Achieve victory by capturing all control points!