Artifact Farming - Collective Restarts Walkthrough for Unification Wars

On Unification Wars, artifacts are very useful for several reasons. They provide you with protection from the effects of negative artifacts, they also can be used to attack other empires to the extent of putting them into vacation mode without turns for a period of time, and they can be used to give you more planets or more game turns. Artifacts are also valuable in that some artifacts, particularly big time capsules and regalos, can also be commonly traded with other players for donation points which can then be used to grant paid account status or purchase other paid projects to enhance your empire. Other than excavating for artifacts, which is very long and tedious, many players take a short cut known as artifact farming by doing multiple restarts within a period of time. As artifacts carry over empire restarts, they can be accumulated much more quickly than by excavation.

One of the most popular form of artifact farming is via collective restarts. This is a guide for how to get it done in the most efficient way possible. Before you begin, you need to ensure that you are on real time normal turns, have your infrastructure at above 25 levels and have a lord or friends that will be willing to support you with tributes each time you restart.

1. Restart as collective and assign 25 levels to agriculture and all remaining infrastructure levels on housing.
2. Get your lord or friend to send you about 4b credits.
   
3. Skip act 1.
4. Research mega projects, spying capability and spy recon.
5. Purchase 1.5m terran metal, 500k red crystal, 50k rutile and 50k composite from the market. Do not be afraid to purchase from the black market if none is available.
6. Build 1320 r.schooners and click build 5 times till you hit about 13m pr.
7. Explore till you have 65k planets. Act 2 Mission 9 requires you to hit 70k planets but you get 5k planets as a reward from Act 2 Mission 2.
   
8. Quickly finish all the missions till you hit Act 2 Mission 10 which requires you to have empire level 7.
9. Increase your population to 430k for non-paid players and 70k for paid players.
10. Click on Diplomacy > Vassal to reset your empire level which should be at empire level 7 unless you are hit while you are doing the missions.
11. Complete the mission.
12. Restart and repeat. Do note that artifacts cap at 255. You may go over 255 up to a maximum of 9999 but each time you restart, the total per artifact gets reduced down to 255.
    

Your total artifact haul for each restart is:

• 15 minor barreras
• 10 regalos
• 20 minor afortunado
• 50 organic base
• 50 assimilated base
  

To complete all this requires about 30 minutes and most of it is spent waiting for turns to generate. And you can do this several times a day. If you do not want to sit there to spend time waiting for turns, I would suggest you change to medium turns and after each restart, log off and come back in 2 hours and you should have enough turns to complete a restart. Do note that on medium turns, your pace of doing restarts will slow down considerably since you will require about 4 hours per restart, ie two full loads of turns at the medium turn rate.

Keep going on enough rounds, you will be on your way to being a rich empire in Unification Wars.

Note: This is a revised post from my original article in Tinker's Sojourn