Engines

Engines room

Engines power your ship's FTL drive and give you a chance to dodge all weapons except beams.

Overview

• Evasion granted by engines requires the Piloting system to be operational with a crew inside the piloting room (manning the console is not required).
  • However, upgraded Piloting system provides the auto-pilot functionality, which provides a portion of evasion (50% of available evasion for Piloting-2, or 80% of available evasion for Piloting-3) granted by Engines and engines crew manning bonus. (Note: the FTL Drive will not charge if there is no crewmember in the piloting room)
• Manning the Engines increases evasion (by +5/+7/+10 %) and the FTL Drive charge rate, depending on the manning crewmember's engines skill level.
  • FTL Recharge Booster augmentation multiplies charge time by 80%, two of them by 67%, and three of them by 57%.
  • Manning the Piloting system adds up to the overall ship evasion (Piloting crew skill bonus also applies), but does not affect the FTL Drive charge rate.
• Upgrading Engines improves evasion and the FTL Drive charge rate.
• Upgraded Engines can be used as a blue option in some events.
• Can be upgraded (as a reward) in Confused Mantis event.

FTL Drive charge time

The in-game information about FTL charge time is wrong. The actual charge times are as follows:

FTL Charge Time in seconds
Engines level	Unmanned	Manned, Engines crew skill
1	67.9	61.8	58.0	54.3
2	53.1	48.3	45.4	42.6
3	43.6	39.6	37.2	34.9
4	36.9	33.6	31.6	29.5
5	32.1	29.0	27.5	25.7
6	28.3	25.7	24.2	22.6
7	25.4	23.1	21.7	20.3
8	23.0	20.9	19.6	18.4

• If there is no hazard or enemy, your FTL charges instantly (nebula environment is not considered a hazard in this case).
• If there is a hazard or a boarder, but no enemy ship, the FTL charge time is 23 seconds.
  • Engines power level, engines manning crew skill level, and FTL Recharge Boosters decrease the FTL charge time.

System Upgrades

Level	Cost	Evasion
1	-	5%
2	10	10%
3	15	15%
4	30	20%
5	40	25%
6	60	28%
7	80	31%
8	120	35%