Power Guide — How to Scale Power the Efficient Way

One page, for every new player in State 677. Every number here is from the hub’s verified data ✅ or hard-earned state experience — this is the order that gets you strong fastest.

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The one rule that beats every other rule: breadth before depth, multipliers before flat stats. Everything in this game is connected — heroes, gear, research, vehicles, refugees, even your HQ skin — and every system has cheap early levels and brutally expensive late ones. The efficient player takes the cheap 80% of EVERY system before paying the expensive 20% of any single one. The whale-trap is doing the opposite.

Where power actually comes from

System	What it gives	The efficiency headline ✅
HQ + buildings	Unlocks everything; big flat power	Never let the builder idle. HQ gates research, troops and events — it’s the spine, not the muscle.
Research	~+250% unit ATK/DEF across the multiplier trees	Do these five trees first, in order: Hero Training (39.6k) → Military Strategies (80k) → Peace Shield to Urgent Rescue (~268k) → Siege to Seize (267k) → Field (594k). All five together ≈ 1.25M badges for +80–100% ATK/DEF, +60% siege, +60% field and Urgent Rescue. Unit Special Training (the T10 tree) costs more than all five combined (1.49M) and comes AFTER them — T10 troops without the multipliers behind them are expensive and weak. Full order, costs and dependency map: Research Guide
Hero levels	Stats + Troop Capacity	Everyone to Lv.150 cheap, park at 160–165. 165→175 costs 10.25B EXP for +30 capacity — the same EXP levels a whole second hero to 165 (+395 capacity).
Hero stars	+2,437 ATK & DEF per star (3★/4★/5★ identical)	3★ costs 100 frags, 5★ costs 500 — same stats per star. Every deployed hero to 3★ before anyone gets a 4th star: 8× more value per fragment.
Hall of Honor statues	Troop Capacity milestones + All Heroes’ DEF	1,000 fragments → +6 capacity for every hero of the faction at once. The hero-level route pays 6B EXP for +15 on ONE hero. Statues first.
D5 equipment	~99,500 power per promotion hexagon	Every hexagon gives the SAME power, but costs 1,100 → 10,500 cores. A new piece to hexagon 3 (8,400 cores) beats one piece’s final hexagon (10,500). Keep all 4 slots even; never park at 4/6 or 5/6.
Mythic forging	Basic stat % per Forging Stone	Lv.2 is the peak (0.40%/stone); Lv.5 is the floor (0.08%). Forge EVERYTHING to Lv.2 (80 stones → +30%), push one main piece at a time to full Mythic.
Vehicle: Tactical Plugins	Up to 1,150,000 power PER plugin at 8★ + account-wide resonance	The biggest late-game power line. Level the four plugins EVENLY — resonance follows your LOWEST star (all four at 8★ = +300 All Heroes’ ATK & DEF). Feed green/blue/purple plugins as EXP; never waste orange ones. Full star-up data
Vehicle: Exterior Modules	Up to +125–200% module stats at Lv.15	A marathon, not a sprint: one module = 1,180,980 EXP ≈ 324 Lv-7 Select Chests. Spend Select Chests deliberately; don’t expect to max these for years on free income.
Refugees	155,525 power each (maxed orange) + huge economy buffs	Diplomats first — they raise the alliance help cap and duration, which speeds your healing, research AND construction every single day. Then Scientists & Butlers: their 25% each is FIXED regardless of stars, so four orange of each = +100% research and construction speed without any star investment. Recruiting orange refugees takes time — start early and keep recruiting; starring up comes much later. Full priorities: Refugee Recruitment Guide
Decorations + HQ skins	Massive stacking Troop ATK/DEF + growth speeds + flat power	Not free, and far from small ✅: every combat decoration gives Troop ATK & DEF +3/5/10/20/30% at Lv.1–5, and every decoration stacks — two maxed = +60%/+60%, a deep collection reaches +484% ATK / +459% DEF and 5M+ power (measured live). Growth decorations run +5/10/15/25/35% research or construction speed, ~140,000 power each at Lv.5. Get them to Lv.2–3 from event tasks, then upgrade with Decoration Fragments (stack them from the weekly Black Market; spender packs go faster — Lv.4→5 costs 5,400). HQ skins: save vouchers from weekly events (Gacha Go, Bullseye Booty) and Tyrant rewards. Slow to build, but this quietly becomes one of your biggest multiplier lines.

The three phases

Phase	Your job	Done when
1 · Foundation	HQ climbing nonstop · recruit refugees from day one — Diplomats to the Alliance Center first, then orange Scientists + Butlers (their 25% is fixed, no stars needed) · multiplier research trees in order · every deployed hero → Lv.150 and 3★ · join every Alliance Duel day	All 15 deployed heroes Lv.150 / 3★, first research stages done
2 · Breadth	Heroes → 160–165 · faction statues to their next capacity milestone · all 4 gear slots of each formation to the same hexagon, F2 gear to hex 3 · every equipped piece forged to Mythic Lv.2 · vehicle mod levels + plugins evenly	Three formations at “good” — which beats one at “perfect”
3 · Depth	Only now: leader & main carry → 5★ and past Lv.165 · one gear piece at a time to full Mythic · plugins toward 9★ together · statue Lv.350 milestones	Ongoing — this phase never ends, which is why it comes last

The engine that pays for all of it

Power is bought with badges, alloy, cores, stones and fragments — and the Alliance Duel is the printer. With Alliance Recognition research complete, full-clearing the week pays 9,960 badges, 1.32M Enhancement Alloy, 24 orange fragments, 240 orange skill books and 3,600 diamonds — every single week. Spend items only on their matching duel day (the same speed-up or chest scores points AND pays loot) and the whole guide above funds itself. Full schedule and points table: Alliance Duel Guide.

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The five mistakes that stall new players (all learned the hard way in this state): 1) rushing Unit Special Training for T10 before the multiplier trees — 1.49M badges for units you can’t buff; 2) parking equipment at 4/6 or 5/6 hexagon steps — base stats only move when the hexagon completes; 3) pushing one hero to Lv.175 while the roster sits at 150 — 47% of a hero’s lifetime EXP for +30 capacity; 4) spending speed-ups, chests and fragments on the wrong Alliance Duel day — half their value gone; 5) feeding Enhancement Alloy to purple/blue gear — orange equipment only, always.

Power on the profile screen is a number; fights are won by multipliers across your whole deployment. Three formations at “good” beat one at “perfect” flanked by two at “poor” — in every event that fields more than one march.

The full cost math behind every claim on this page: Scaling Guide · Research Guide · Research & HQ · Heroes · Vehicles · Alliance Duel