Prestige

What is Prestige?
The prestige system lets players buy powerful, permanent upgrades with gems in exchange for starting over and resetting progress. Even though progress is reset, the prestige upgrades allow a player to quickly catch up and surpass their progress from before prestiging.

The prestige menu unlocks alongside bosses after completing stage 30 in AI battles.

Prestige upgrades can be bought with gems, which are obtained by defeating bosses.

Performing a prestige will reset progress in many areas.
 * The following will reset: All non-prestige upgrades, ship levels, equipment, money, and AI battle progress.


 * The following will not reset: Gems, prestige upgrades, achievements, unlocked menus, PVP ranking, boss progress, fidelity packs.

How to Prestige
To buy a prestige upgrade, first add your gems to the desired upgrades. This only selects the upgrades, but does not purchase them yet; if you change your mind or accidentally select the wrong upgrade, you can leave the prestige page and return to get your gems back. After you've selected the upgrades you want, click on the "confirm" button. A message will pop up asking if you want to cancel or confirm. '''Once you confirm, there's no going back! You will not be able to redistribute or get spent gems back.'''

Prestige Tips

 * Save up a few hundred gems before prestiging. Typically, you'll want to be able to catch back up to where you were by the end of the next week.
 * If you're able to get 100 gems for the week, you generally don't want to prestige if you won't be able to "catch up" and get 100 gems the next week.


 * Try not to prestige in the middle of the week. The best time to prestige is just after the weekly reset. After the reset, defeat as many bosses as possible and then prestige. Since boss progress only resets on the weekly update, and not from prestiging, this will let you start a new run with a high income bonus from boss kills.


 * The "increase starting money" bonus is not very worthwhile compared to the "income %" bonus. Spending 400 gems on starting money will give you 58,920,000. However, spending 400 gems on "income %" will give you +100% income, doubling your progress and resulting in billions of extra money within a week. (You'll make two weeks of progress in a single week!)