Some city-building games provide players with massive maps with plenty of room to grow, but IXION is a little different. The main focus of the game is a circular spaceship, and while the game provides five more sectors after the first one there's never enough room to build everything at once. Fortunately, IXION knows about this problem and has ways to make it easy to reorganize.
Building Basics
- Each building in IXION has a cost in resources, and these resources can include alloys, electronics, and polymers.
- Every building must be next to a road so resources and construction workers can reach it. Some can be next to a road on any side, but others can only face a road on one side. This is also true about buildings being dismantled.
- You can choose to dismantle a building either through the construction interface or through the building's menu. There's a button on the upper-right, just next to the building's icon.
- Unlike other games, IXION provides a full resource refund when dismantling buildings. So while administrators can't order a building to move directly, they can effectively do so by dismantling a building and rebuilding it somewhere new.
Additional Tips
- After the prologue, the Tiqqun needs a constant supply of alloy to keep the hull repaired. Keep in mind that alloy from a dismantled building may go to repairs before its replacement can go up!
- Before moving a building, turn off resource trading for the sector. Otherwise, the resources gathered from the dismantled building will go to other sectors instead of to its replacement.
- On the other hand, make sure resource trading is on and set to the right numbers when moving buildings between sectors. Also, be sure to prioritize the right sector in the resource management menu.
- Try to move buildings to completely new locations instead of moving them slightly to the left or right. Administrators can't order new buildings on top of existing ones, even if the existing building is scheduled for dismantling.
- Administrators can see each building's size in grid squares in the upper right of its entry in the construction interface. If that's not enough, try selecting the building and checking for red spaces while moving it around the sector.
Directly moving buildings isn't an option most city-building games offer, and IXION is no different. However, the full resource refund the game provides makes it much easier to relocate and adjust building locations than in most other games in this genre. And since space is at a premium in a spaceship, it's good the developers make the process so easy.