Each player controls a single clan. This clan is seeded from the Mother Titan, a special case which defies all the design rules and which is capable of birthing enough Titans to produce a battle force. The game starts off slowly, as the Mother can only spawn a single Titan in the first turn, in the second turn she can spawn another while the first is given move orders, and so on.
By the end of the second week of play your clan will be well established and you can start to take part in the eternal wars. Later in the game if you come across the next stage of bio-mass you can elect to gain a clan hall by paying the small subscription fee. Alternatively you can remain one of the many players playing for fee..
Each clan is limited to a total tech of 20000. Each titans tech is summed up and when you reach this maximum you cannot breed anymore titans.
Normally breeders can spawn offspring 1 tech higher than themselves. Pure breeders can redesign themselves, increasing their own tech by more than 1 per turn no matter how much harvested bio-mass they have.
Each titans tech cost is given by :
If below 160 then it is the tech.
If above 160 then it is 150 + (tech-150)*(tech-150)/10.
Clan halls available to paying players can reduce the cost of each titan by the halls augmentation level (which grows by 1 per turn up to 50).
The maximum clan cost will only stop the spawning process and will never mean existing Titans must be destroyed. For example, if your clan hall is destroyed then your clans cost will effectively increase as you lose the augmentation.
Note that clever use of pure breeders will mean you are competing with the eldest clans after about two months of play.
Your clans name is important, it is your identity on the sphere. For the first 28 days of play you can change your clan name as often as you like, after this time you will suffer penalties if you rename your clan.
Each time a new Titan is spawned the tech level can be increased. Gradually your clan will evolve and your Titans grow larger and more menacing. Each time a Titan scores a hit upon an enemy points are scored, the Titan also gains experience equal to the points scored, a Titans experience vastly increases the chance of scoring a hit.
The effect of experience is given in the elsewhere.