AI

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AI Upgrades are permanent upgrades to various systems, that automate certain aspects, or offer quality of life benefits. They can be bought with AI Points, which can be earned by Achievements, doing a daily backup, or buying them. They can also be spent on various consumables, although these can also be earned through normal progression.

Automations

These upgrades mainly focus on automating certain aspects of the game, like buying upgrades or spending resources.

Unnamed Space Idle AI Automation Upgrades

Name	Effect	Cost	Requirements
Auto Merge	Enables a toggle for automatically merging shards as you acquire them. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.	300 AI Points	V-Device unlocked
Core Auto Upgrade	Enables a toggle for automatically buying core upgrades every 5 seconds.	450 AI Points	none
Compute Auto Salvage	Adds an option to automatically update salvage consumption based on 1% of your income.	300 AI Points	none
Compute Power Auto	Adds an option to automatically purchase compute power when it costs 50% of your total void matter.	450 AI Points	none
Compute Optimize Button	Adds an optimize button that distributes compute power for maximal results.	150 AI Points	none
Compute Auto Optimize	Adds an option to automatically optimize compute every 10 seconds.	150 AI Points	Compute Optimize Button bought
Smart Craft	Enables smart crafting for first synth slot which will automatically craft all the needed materials.	450 AI Points	Synth unlocked
Smart Craft 2	Enables smart crafting for second synth slot.	300 AI Points	Smart Craft bought
Smart Craft 3	Enables smart crafting for third synth slot.	150 AI Points	Smart Craft 2 bought
Smart Craft 4	Enables smart crafting for fourth synth slot.	100 AI Points	Smart Craft 3 bought
Fixtures Auto Select	Adds options to fixtures to automatically start another one upon completion.	600 AI Points	Fixtures unlocked
Reactor Auto Buy	Adds an option to automatically purchase reactor upgrades when you can afford them and have a positive power gain.	300 AI Points	Reactor unlocked
Reactor Power Manager	Adds an option to automatically set power boost levels as high as possible while maintaining power gain.	450 AI Points	Reactor Boost Levels unlocked
Reactor VM Manager	Adds an option to automatically set Void Matter conversion level based on income.	300 AI Points	Reactor Power Manager bought
Overdrive Auto	Adds options to automatically use overdrives or swap to next when full(Actives do not work offline)	600 AI Points	Overdrives unlocked
Overdrive Charge Auto	Adds a check box to indicate which charge speed should be auto purchased when auto buy is enabled	600 AI Points	Overdrives unlocked
Research Auto Select	Automatically selects the next research when the one is completed.	75 AI Points	Research unlocked
Research Data Core Auto	Adds an option to automatically distribute Data Cores between selected sections.	600 AI Points	Capital Research unlocked
Base Auto Upgrade	Adds option to automatically purchase base building upgrades when affordable.	450 AI Points	Base 1 unlocked
Auto Warp	Adds an option to instantly run & gain warp essence from your lowest non-capped warp if all cores are fully charged. Works offline.	450 AI Points	Warp Drive unlocked
Warp Upgrades Buy Max	Adds a button to the warp upgrades screen that buys all the upgrades you can afford, cheapest first.	300 AI Points	Warp Drive unlocked
Crew XP/Skill Auto Buy	Adds option to automatically purchase Crew XP and Skill when affordable	450 AI Points	Crew unlocked
Crew Stat Auto Switcher	Adds option to automatically switch stat being leveled based on lowest time to level.	450 AI Points	Crew unlocked
Crew Reprint Button	Adds a reprint button on active crew members that retires and then automatically prints them again.	75 AI Points	Crew unlocked
Crew Auto Reprint	Adds an option to automatically reprint a crew member at designated stat level gain. Also adds a setting to auto-reassign upgrades.	450 AI Points	Crew Reprint Button bought
Fleet Repeat Last Run	Adds a button that will automatically complete galaxy nodes based on what was done on the previous run	600 AI Points	Fleet unlocked
Fleet Repeat Auto Battle	Repeat last run can now fully re-run the battles to get improved results when your stats increase	750 AI Points	Fleet unlocked, Fleet Repeat Last Run bought

Quality of Life

These upgrades focus on adding quality of life improvements, like loadouts, or allowing to pin module recipes.

Unnamed Space Idle AI Quality of Life Upgrades

Name	Effect	Cost	Requirements
Custom Tab Order	Unlocks buttons that allow you to re-arrange the main feature tabs.	25 AI Points	none
Auto Navigate	Unlocks button when viewing sector data to attempt to automatically navigate to that sector.	25 AI Points	none
Auto Navigate Distance	Adds the ability to set a specific distance when using Auto Navigate	50 AI Points	Auto Navigate bought
Loadout Slot	Unlocks a loadout slot.	5 AI Points	none
2nd to 6th Loadout Slot	Unlocks another loadout slot.	100 AI Points each	previous Loadout Slot bought
7th and 8th Loadout Slot	Unlocks another loadout slot.	50 AI Points each	previous Loadout Slot bought
9th to 12th Loadout Slot	Unlocks another loadout slot.	25 AI Points each	previous Loadout Slot bought
Increased Offline Max	Increases max offline time to 4 days. Calculations may become very inaccurate.	50 AI Points	none
Module Pinning	Allows you to pin 8 module recipes on the main synth screen.	50 AI Points	none
Custom Module Order	Unlocks buttons that allow you to re-arrange your modules.	25 AI Points	none
Shard Stat Totals Display	Adds a display that shows stat totals from equipped shards.	50 AI Points	none
Base Loadouts	Ads 3 loadout slots to each base to allow saving and loadout grid loadouts.	300 AI Points	none

Accumulation

As players accumulate AI points, permanent upgrades can be unlocked at certain milestones. Only earned AI Points count towards this, meaning players can spend their points on upgrades without having to worry about these milestones. Note that the milestones from 9000 AI Points onward only show up after reaching Sector 75.

Unnamed Space Idle AI Accumulation Bonuses

AI Points Accumulated	Effect
250	Salvage Amount Multiplier x1.25
500	Compute Power x1.5
750	Damage x1.25 Max Shields x1.25
1000	Unlock Consumables
1500	Synth Speed x1.1
2000	Void Power Generation x1.5 Max Void Power x1.5
2500	Bonus to Research x1.5
3000	Damage x1.25 Max Shields x1.25
4000	Unlock Blue Ship Design
9000	All Capital Damage x1.25 All Capital Max Shields x1.25
10000	Warp Essence Gain Multiplier x1.25
11000	Crew XP Gain Multiplier x2
12000	Fighter Damage x1.15 Fighter Durability x1.15
13000	Fighter Efficiency x1.15
14000	All Capital Damage x1.25 All Capital Max Shields x1.25

Consumables

Consumables are useful, single-use items that can be bought for AI Points in order to grant the player certain bonuses or benefits. They can also be obtained at several points during normal progression.

Unnamed Space Idle Consumables

Name	Effect	Cost
Warp Shifter	Manipulate the warp and cause it to shift right now and rotate your warp choices.	25 AI Points
Extra Retrofit	Squeeze some extra use out of spare materials and gain +1 retrofit for this run, requires retrofits to be unlocked. (The retrofit will be lost on prestige so be sure to use it)	50 AI Points
6 Hour Time Skip	Use warp technology to skip 6 hours into the future, gaining all resources that would have been aquired. (Works the same as offline time)	125 AI Points
Base Prestige	Utilize advanced techniques to gain base benefits as if you had prestiged. (Gain pending bonuses and unlock new slots)	300 AI Points
Crew Mastery Respec	Alter your crew data and fully reset and refund mastery points.	400 AI Points
Crew Sleeve Respec	Fully reset your sleeves and crew mastery progress. Same effect as doing a prestige but just for crew.	100 AI Points

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