From First Colony to Endgame: Your SolPlex Progression

From your first protected colony to alliance warfare and endgame competition, this guide walks through the key stages of the journey and what to focus on at each step.

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Early Game: Your First Steps in SolPlex

When you first enter SolPlex, you step into a deep sci fi MMO built around long term planning and player driven progression. During your beginner protection period, you have time to explore mechanics, understand how progression works and shape your approach before becoming a target in the wider galaxy.

Early Game Focus Points

Follow the Quest Panel

The quest system guides you through core mechanics while rewarding resources and tokens. It introduces key systems step by step and helps you understand progression naturally.

Prioritise the Synthetix Hub
The Synthetix Hub increases population and reduces construction time. Early upgrades here compound over time and accelerate overall development.

Build the Trade Nexus
Constructing the Trade Nexus unlocks trading. This gives you access to the player driven marketplace, allowing you to buy and sell resources as part of the in game economy.

Unlock the Nuclear Lab
Building the Nuclear Lab allows you to store and use artefacts. Artefacts provide strategic boosts and become increasingly important as competition increases.

Do Not Neglect Defence
Even during protection, upgrading Colony Walls provides a defence bonus. Preparing early ensures you are ready once protection expires and the competitive strategy element begins.

The early stage in SolPlex is not about rushing. It is about understanding systems, strengthening your foundation and preparing your colony for the next phase of the game.

Mid Game: Expanding Your Strategy

By mid game your beginner protection has ended and your position in the wider galaxy starts to matter more. The foundation of your first colony is in place and your decisions now begin shaping your role in the galaxy. This stage is less about learning basic mechanics and more about applying them with purpose. Alliances, expansion and controlled warfare begin to define your progression.

As your experience deepens, this is where coordination, expansion and market awareness become increasingly important.

Key Focus Areas

Join or Strengthen an Alliance
Alliances are central to SolPlex. They provide coordination, shared defence, resource support and preparation for future endgame phases. In any competitive strategy game, teamwork often defines long term success.

Work Toward Your Second Colony
Unlocking the Settlers Cradle and expanding into a second colony is a major progression milestone. A second colony allows you to specialise, whether for resource production, military growth or economic focus.

Refine Your Market Strategy
Mid game is the ideal time to properly engage with the player driven marketplace. Practice buying and selling resources, learn price movement patterns and understand how smart positioning strengthens your overall progression.

Practice Combat Through Ancient Colonies
Ancient Colonies are scattered across the galaxy in multiple tiers. They do not retaliate, making them ideal for practicing scouting, unit composition and controlled attacks. This helps you understand combat mechanics in a safer environment before engaging other players.

Balance Offence and Defence
Continue upgrading Colony Walls, Gravity Shield and Horizon Wall while expanding your military strength. In any serious sci fi strategy game, defence is just as important as attack, especially once protection has ended.

Mid game is where foundations turn into momentum and your presence becomes visible on the galaxy map.

Late Game: Preparing for the Endgame

Late game in SolPlex is where everything begins to point toward one defining outcome: the endgame. By now you have built your colonies, developed your army, explored the market layer and understood how the systems truly operates. The focus shifts from growth to preparation.

Depending on your server stage, the endgame will be approaching. This is the phase where alliances compete for control, coordination becomes critical and long term planning is tested. Unlike many games where progress resets or fades, every SolPlex server moves toward a final chapter with real rewards rarely seen in gaming.

At this stage, your alliance is everything. Endgame is not won by one strong player but by a coordinated team. Resource production, market positioning, defensive structures and offensive timing all contribute to the final push. The Arc becomes the focal point and every decision made before this moment starts to matter.

Late Game Priorities

• Strengthen alliance coordination and shared strategy

• Secure advanced output to sustain long term pressure

• Maintain balanced military power for both defence and assault

• Prepare for Arc competition and endgame positioning

Late game is not about unlocking new systems. It is about mastering the ones you already understand and applying them with precision. When the endgame begins, only one alliance will shape how that server ends.

Your SolPlex Journey

Every SolPlex server runs at different speeds, but no matter where you play, you will always move through the same three stages: early game, mid game and late game. There is no fixed path and no single strategy that guarantees success. Your journey is shaped by your decisions, your alliance and how you adapt to the evolving galaxy. However you choose to play, everything ultimately leads toward one defining moment: the endgame.

Available Platforms:

• Windows and macOS
  • Play through the official SolPlex launcher.
  • Also available on the Epic Games Store.
• Coming Soon: Mobile Versions (iOS and Android)